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SUMMARY: Thomas Erdbrink, Tehran bureau chief for The New York Times, offers a rarely seen personal look at daily life in Iran, the first report in a series called 'Dispatch: Iran.'
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): Tonight, the first in a series of short films we will bring you by Thomas Erdbrink, the Tehran bureau chief of The New York Times. The Dutch-born journalist has lived in Iran since 2002.
Personal rather than political, his portraits show a side of life in the country few get to see.
Tonight, an introduction to our series, Dispatch: Iran.
THOMAS ERDBRINK, The New York Times: This is where it all started, here in the desert in the middle of Iran.
I was a young journalist and came here the write about a student uprising. I fell in love with Newsha, an Iranian photographer, and decided to move to Tehran.
It was so different for me to be here, and I think Newsha in many ways symbolized that. Of course, yes, I could have married a girl from the Dutch countryside and it maybe would have been different and maybe in many ways would have been easier, but I’m happy I choose you.
NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN: Of course you should be.
(LAUGHTER)
THOMAS ERDBRINK: This is the mysterious and isolated country where I arrived as a young man and where I have been working as a correspondent for the past 12 years, first for some Dutch newspapers and television channels, and since a couple years for The New York Times.
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