Former journalism student Sasha Khokha, who currently covers the Central Valley for KQED’s The California Report, reports for FRONTLINE/World’s Rough Cut series on three teenage girls adopted from India and raised in Minnesota as they travel back to India with their American parents.

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*This story won the South Asian Journalist Association’s 2006 award for Outstanding New Media Story (see press release).

IN defying international monitors and breaking the seals on its nuclear facilities, Iran seems to be courting confrontation. But Western leaders would do well to consider what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s bravado really says about Iran’s likely posture in the region and at the nuclear talks that are scheduled to …

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[NOTE: Omid Memarian, an Iranian journalist in exile, is a visiting scholar at the journalism school.]