At a documentary screening in Richmond on Sunday, a heavy weight hung over the room heavily populated by local Iranian Americans.
It was the day after the United States dropped bombs on Iran, the fear of which has persisted since the 1979 revolution and hostage crisis set off half a century of tense U.S.-Iran relations. The documentary screened, “The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life,” distills that history through the stories of immigrants who rebuilt their lives in the Bay Area.
Persis Karim, the film’s producer and director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University, described to SFGATE the frustration of fielding requests from a dozen national and local news outlets in the past week to speak on behalf of Iranian Americans during wartime…