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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: She loves Iran and Israel. What it’s like for this Canadian watching them at war
Description: Tina Ahava Azarin constantly checks the news about the war between Iran and Israel. But for the Ottawa resident, it’s not just distant headlines.
An Iranian-Jewish entrepreneur, Azarin was born in Isfahan and raised in Tehran before leaving Iran for Canada in 2001 with her husband and their newborn daughter. Today, that daughter is studying in Israel — making the conflict between the two countries Azarin loves deeply personal.
The latest escalation between Iran and Israel followed an Israeli air strike last weekend that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an attack reportedly carried out wi...