Saeed Kamali Dehghan is a staff journalist with the Guardian. He was the Guardian’s Iran correspondent for a decade from 2009 to 2019. He started writing for the Guardian from Tehran, but is now based in London.

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Learn about Iran in 70 articles:

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Twelve Plus One, written by Saeed Kamali Dehghan and published in Iran in January 2017 by Ofoq publications, is a collection of his interviews with 12 writers and one film-maker, including Nobel prize in literature laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Wisława Szymborska, Paul Auster, EL Doctorow and David Lynch.

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The truth is not totally attainable by facts… that’s the novelists’s point of view, that there are greater truths to be reached – EL Doctorow in conversation with Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Twelve Plus One