2025-09-02
28 分钟Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
Tensions between Iran and Israel escalated dramatically with missile strikes exchanged between the two nations.
The United States entered the fray by targeting Iranian nuclear facilities,
actions that ultimately led to a fragile ceasefire still in place as we speak.
Washington is now positioning itself as broker-in-chief with renewed efforts to restart nuclear negotiations.
My guest today brings rare insight into this region and its regime.
Raised in Tehran by an Iranian mother and American father, he straddled two worlds,
witnessing the upheaval of post-revolutionary Iran before moving to the United States.
He later joined US special operations,
served with distinction and then reinvented himself in the tech industry after a serious injury.
His novel, Shadows of Tehran, draws on this extraordinary life.
Whilst not a straight memoir, it is rooted in lived experience,
following a boy named Ricardo as he comes of age amid the turbulence of revolutionary Iran,
caught between identities, ideologies and impossible choices.
Nick Berg, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you so much.
Growing up in Tehran, this is prior to the revolution.
Tell me about that.
What were your earliest memories there?