by Sam Razi | May 25, 2013 | Featured, From the Web, Internet, Politics, Video, World
In case you missed it, a great program from the team at Al Jazeera’s The Stream. The topic of Internet access in Iran is a fascinating and important one. With the upcoming presidential election, Internet access in Iran has become extremely slow, and potentially...
by Sam Razi | May 14, 2013 | Human Rights, Politics
This is a must-watch video with a lively discussion and Q&A debate. In particular, there is a part of the discussion where the greying line between journalism and activism is explored. I think this is a crucial part of the video. Journalism today is a form of...
by Sam Razi | Apr 16, 2013 | Exclusive, Featured, Opinion, Politics
Laura Rozen reports in Al-Monitor’s Back Channel on the explosive Wikileaks US cable that implicates Ayatollah Khamenei’s top aide and former Iran Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, in a purported outreach to the U.S. government, seeking funds for a...
by Sam Razi | Mar 18, 2013 | Featured, Live, Politics
[20:46 GMT] Snap Analysis of President Obama’s Nowruz message (Part 1) He starts with a greeting and acknowledgment of the tradition of Nowruz, and then gets down to business. As I have every year as President, I want to take this opportunity to speak directly...
by Sam Razi | Feb 24, 2013 | Featured, Politics, Sports, Video
With the constant barrage of negative, often inaccurate and even downright misleading propaganda that the some media constantly puts out about Iran, most Americans would probably find it surprising that Iranians harbor no ill will for the American people. The Iranian...
by Sam Razi | Jun 3, 2012 | Featured, Politics
Note on Ayatollah Khamenei’s so-called “Nuclear Fatwa” | June 3, 2012 By Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi I find it most curious that some Western commentators believe that Ayatollah Khamenei’s fatwa is “well-documented”. There has been...
