“Buildings will be built and torn down, people will demonstrate and celebrate, cars will crash, citizens will be executed, lovers abandoned, police corrupted, political dissidents imprisoned and freed, presidents will come and go; but Vali Asr will remain, a constant, unchanged by wars, dictators and revolutions. With or without its sycamore trees.”

Weirdly stuck in the space between journalism and fiction. The title “City of Lies” in my opinion risks painting the Iranian public as liars rather than criticising the regime itself.