And I worked my way up through every level. I was a writer, I was a producer, I was a field producer, I was a reporter and I am a reporter.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.

open hostility and defiance.