First-term Rep. Cyrus Habib
of Kirkland has attracted a lot of media attention this session because he’s
been blind since age 8 and is the state’s first blind legislator in a century.
But it’s another distinction of Habib’s that served as the lead-in for a recent
public-radio report on him: He’s the highest-ranking Iranian-American elected
official in the nation.
Here’s what Habib told the Public Radio International Network on their program “The World:”
I think we’re at a critical moment as a community of Iranian-Americans, or Middle-Eastern Americans.
To listen to a recording of the segment or read the text version, click here.
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