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The Regime Reels

netbros — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:46:09 -0800

Kosoof—Arash Ashoorinia's Photography —including today's Ashura protests in Iran. The protests in Iran today on the Islamic holy Day of Ashura have been significant and violent, with multiple deaths reported including the nephew of opposition leader Mir-Hussein Moussavi. There are several sites live-blogging the events: Enduring America NY Times The Lede Iran News Now — [twitter feed] The Daily Nite Owl And video compilations: [some videos and images display brutal violence] Tehran Bureau Enduring America Opposition group Jaras Please note all sites are very busy today and may be slow to load.

Generation Tehran

BuddhaInABucket — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:46:31 -0800

Generation Tehran A documentary short about the youth of Iran.

"You will explode after two minutes".

nthdegx — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:01:30 -0800

"Video of Iran ‘attack’ on three US warships released by Pentagon"

Watch Iran's emerging new music talent

hoder — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:08:00 -0800

Iran: This musician is revolutionizng the music scene (Video) Mohsen Namjoo and her superstar

BBC's documentary: Iran, the most understood country, by Rageh Omaar

hoder — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:15:40 -0800

Watch BBC's documentary: Iran, the least understood country (Google video | Torrent) Rageh Omaar discovers that Iran is a country that bans women from riding motorcycles but where 60 per cent of the student population is female. There are stories of taxi drivers, wrestlers, business women, people working with drug addicts and the country's leading pop star and his manager - the 'Simon Cowell' of Iran. Read his article in the Sunday Times.

This Iranian American Life

chasing — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:07:27 -0800

This Iranian American Life "This blog is for an experimental documentary that I am working on this year, where I will be shooting video of my experiences in Iran and creating shorts, interactive installations, and/or videoblogs using the footage from my experiences and the experiences of others."

Iranian-American student Paris Marashi has gone back to Tehran with the goal of documenting her own experiences with family, friends, and about town. She's also giving inexpensive cameras to Iranians to help them document their own experiences. There are only a few posts up at the moment, but it should be stay interesting as time goes on.

Hi kids! Do you like violence?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:47:27 -0800

Animated video broadcast on Iran's IRIB state television, apparently aimed at children, seemingly promotes the virtues of becoming a suicide bomber. Coralized wmv link, transcript.