Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Why many Iranians are feeling the Bern

MASOUD LAVASANI for Al-Monitor Many Iranians and Iranian-Americans are still pulling for US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, whose "real" image has "managed to change the general narrative about the United States."

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