As world leaders arrive in New York City for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly this week, much of the talk is expected to focus on Iran’s nuclear program and the sanctions meant to squeeze its economy. Jonathan Harounoff, Israel’s spokesman at the United Nations, hopes the spotlight also lands on everyday Iranians who live under the regime.

His book, Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt , which he spent three years researching and penning, is slated to publish on Thursday.

“Whenever you’re reading about Iran in the news, all you hear about is the nuclear program, proxies, instability,” he told JNS at a café near U.N. headquarters in Turtle Bay, where he has spent the last year as Israel’s international spokesman.

“You don’t read about what’s going on

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