Posts Tagged ‘Ali Ansari’

HBO’s Neda Agha-Soltan Documentary

In Crime, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, fame, fashion on 16 June 2010 tagged #Iranelection, Ali Ansari, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Azar Nafisi, Green Revolution, HBO, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tehran with View Comments

“The God I worship is a compassionate and loving God” – Neda Agha Soltan “The whole idea with this [Iranian] regime is that because they confiscated religion and turned it into an ideology, they deprived it of everything that makes religion humane…so this government in fact destroyed the religion by claiming it and confiscating it” [...]

Washington Post : Britian Bashing is Iran’s ‘Flavor of the Month’

In History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, radio on 19 July 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Ali Ansari, anglophobia, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, BBC, BBC Persian, Britian, British Broadcasting Corp., Dick Davis, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Iran, Iranian election, Islamic Republic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, media, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Middle Eastern Studies, Ohio State University, protest, Reza Shah, Syracuse University, Tara Bahrampour, Tehran, University of St. Andrews with View Comments

It’s interesting that Bahrampour points to the dual role of the United States in regards to talks surrounding a nuclear Iran and the unforeseen concessions and charm of now United States President, Barack Hussein Obama, as possible reasons for the Iranian emphasis on the ‘evils’ of the British: Since Iranians took to the streets to [...]