Friday, July 4, 2008 
Check out Firoozeh Dumas’ NPR story about the Iranian hostage crisis and meeting a former hostage many years later. Dumas met Kathryn Koob, one of two women held for over a year shortly after the Iranian revolution.
(Thanks to Sam for the link!)
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On October 23rd, PBS will begin airing a Frontline examination of U.S.-Iranian relations, ominously called Showdown With Iran.
The title and previews for this show seem to beat war drums; I’m encouraged only by the fact that PBS is airing this special. PBS has a long history of being even-handed in its political coverage and I […]
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Nazanin of Iranian Truth just wrote a post pointing to a PostGlobal article by Amar Bakshi about Iranian-Americans and how they feel about U.S.-Iran relations. The PostGlobal project counts Hossein Derakhshan and Ali Ettefagh as its two Iran-expert bloggers, and Bakshi’s series, “How the World Sees America,” looked at Iranians in Los Angeles recently. His […]
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Are you in New York? Go up to Columbia to see the madness as Ahmadinejad is giving a speech there today. Here’s an AP report of his arrival by Nahal Toosi. A friend at Columbia’s graduate school let me know they are covering the event really comprehensively today. If there are any Iranians in […]
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The Columbus Dispatch last week printed a controversial editorial cartoon depicting Iran as a sewer and Iranians as an infestation of cockroaches.
Niki Akhavan wrote the Dispatch to complain of what she calls an “incitement to hatred” and received a canned response from the paper, reprinted here:
Dear sir or madame:
Thank you for writing to The Dispatch.
You […]
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From the New York Times:
An Iranian-American academic imprisoned for months and accused of trying to create a ‘’soft revolution” in Iran was permitted to leave the country and rejoin her family, her lawyer and family said Monday.
Haleh Esfandiari, 67, who was released on bail in August, picked up her passport and flew late Sunday […]
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See the New Yorker’s George Packer on propaganda machines and Iran. Reuters reports Ali Khamenei accuses Bush of hate campaign.
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