Commuters ride past a poster of slain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hossein Salami in Tehran this week. Atta Kenare/Getty Images

Friday essay: ‘my heart is full of sparks’ – as war escalates, can I hope for Iran’s liberation from a tyrannical regime?

Hessom Razavi’s family fled to Australia from Iran in the 1980s to escape persecution. As he watches events unfold, he speaks to relatives still there and reflects on Iran’s fate.

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