Steve Inskeep, the host of NPR's "Morning Edition" program, has been reporting from Iran for his program and for others on NPR. Yesterday's "Here and Now" program included a brief clip of Inskeep's conversation with an Iranian mother about her hopes for her daughter:
Inskeep: Do you think that's she's going to be able to grow up to have a better life than you have?
Woman: Here, I don't think so. I'm, you, know, planning to send her.
Inskeep: To where?
Woman: You know, as we think, the paradise of the world is the United States. [She laughs softly and adds a note of hopeful uncertainty.] As we think.