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Iranian audiences have become obsessed with international true crime, but the hunger for Dastane Vaghei Melli (national true stories) is insatiable. Podcasts dissecting the "Cannes Murder" or the "Tehran Serial Murders" draw millions of listeners. The appeal is anthropological: listeners want to understand the darkness lurking beneath the surface of modern Iranian society.

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, despite his surrealist tendencies, anchored The Blind Owl in deeply personal psychological truth. His other stories, like The Stray Dog , drew from real observations of Tehran’s underbelly. despite his surrealist tendencies