He said he felt Mr. Suleimani was directly responsible for numerous acts of violence. “The way I know President Trump, I never knew that’s how he would do it. “Roozbeh is dead, your new name is 607,” Mr. Farahanipour, now 48, recalls a guard telling him. In the years after he arrived in Los Angeles, he rented a small office in West Los Angeles where he could continue writing about repression back home. In 2009, firmly established in the city, he was eager to buy the restaurant beneath that small office when it came up for sale.

Source: New York Times January 04, 2020 16:07 UTC