IranWire is excited to launch the first in its new series of podcasts, Iran's Weekly Wire. This week, Roland Elliott Brown looks at Iranian officials’ attempts to shore up the country’s Islamic identity, from its efforts to control forthcoming Nowruz celebrations, to a cleric's defence of polygamy.
We also look at the effects of dust storms plaguing Iran’s western provinces, where a confluence of drought and climate change has caused clouds of dust to blot out the sky.
Whether it encountered threats to traditional morality or those presented by nature and climate change, the Islamic Republic focused a little more on heaven than on earth.
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