you are an iranian american academic, whati end of their activities. nian american academic, what is like being a part of the iranian diaspora abroad? the like being a part of the iranian diaspora abroad?— like being a part of the iranian diaspora abroad? the nature of my work requires _ diaspora abroad? the nature of my work requires to _ diaspora abroad? the nature of my work requires to fully _ diaspora abroad? the nature of my work requires to fully happens - diaspora abroad? the nature of my work requires to fully happens and | work requires to fully happens and regularly plus, i was a political prisoner for a short period of three months but those three months are therefore, you know, i can feel for what she was talking about with her daughter. and ifeel what she was talking about with her daughter. and i feel sympathy what she was talking about with her daughter. and ifeel sympathy for all the other parents who lost their children during the uprising and the 20,000 people who were injured. and i think it is connected but what happened in the last

it's from a book by an iranian author, an american named firza doumah. which could help present more iranians to the western world. and i think that what's happening right now with the green movement as well is we're seeing iranians fighting for democracy and freedom and doing things that we had never known iranians as. in the past we'd always known iran as the place where the hostages were taken or, again, the "not without my daughter" type example. but now i think the west is seeing and the rest of the world is seeing that iranians do want democracy, we do want freedom, and that we're good people. and i think there's these movements happening within hollywood as well. the movie "prince of persia" is coming out which i believe presents us in a positive light. there are some good things happening. >> maybe it will be like bollywood, it will be iraniwood or something like that. >> i hope so. >> maz, bobak, azar, and rudi, thank you. happy new year to you and best of luck zplp thank you. >>> a frigid weekend. as far south as florida bone-chilling temperatur

backlash at home joining us to discuss what iranian americans are going through we have a teddy bear is a community organizer based in chicago we also have. an iranian american community leader and organizer a lawyer by is based in new york and is also plaintiffs pointing gets the u.s. is so-called muslim travel ban and finally we have jamal abdi policy director of the national iranian american council he joins us today from sarasota florida hello everybody sorry to drive you in on this conversation where it's not a particularly happy one hoda for instance we showed one example of an iranian american and the story that she had about trying to come back into her own country you've also heard stories like that in the last 23 weeks can you share one. definitely i think but it is an incredibly terrifying time for iranians iranian americans the united states not only are we feeling for the lives of many of our families in iran but also just trying to get back into the country which many iranians call home i have been in touch with so many people that have been stopped and interrogated question for over 11 hours by u.s. citizens a clear violation

caitrÍona: one of the freed prisoners, an iranian american businessman, was declined -- detained fordays. he issued a statement thanking president biden, saying, my heartfelt gratitude goes to president biden and his administration, which had to make incredibly difficult decisions. thank you for putting the lives of american citizens above politics. the sister of an iranian american businessman who was detained in 2018 issued a statement on his release, saying, my family is so happy to hear that imad is on his way home. we have been waiting for this day for almost five and a half years and i can't wait to hug my brother and never let him go. i achieve international correspondent is in doha, where the plaintiff carrying the foreign prisoners landed. >> this moment on the tarmac in doha is a very personal moment for the five american citizens who are free and the relatives who traveled with them on this plane, which left the iranian capital to ron -- tehhran. the most high-profile prisoners said he dreamed of this day for every one of the 2988 days he was in iran, most of that time beh

our report comes from bijan saliani, an iranian-american who grew up in iran and has reported extensively from there.>> repor views iranian women as being silently oppressed. oppress they may be. silent they are not. how women look and act is an unavoidable national issue, and many women here find themselves in conflict with their authorities every day. to see how that works, look at the scene we found in iran recently. two young women being told they couldn't enter a park because their clothes were too form-fitting, not modest enough. >> how is what i'm wearing different from you? >> you know the rules. you can't come in here dressed that way.'et >> reporter: such scenes happen every day. the law says every female over the age of 8 must conceal her shape and cover everything but her face and hands when she is in public. many find the restrictions irritating, and in hot weather downright uncomfortable. and so on the streets of every iranian city, women push the limits of the law. to an outsider, the rules seem haphazard. women must sit in the back of the buses. there are separate cars for

garland's announcement about felipe who have been arrested and charged in an attempted assassination of a prominent iran an-american -- iranianmerican journal whoift has been a -- who has been an outspoken critic of the iran irn government. a.g. garland: good morning. this morning, a federal court in new york unveiled an indictment charging three individuals for their roles in the conspiracy to assassinate a united states citizen. these charges arise out of an ongoing investigation into the government of iran's efforts to assassinate on u.s. soil a journalist, author and human rights activist who is a u.s. citizen of iranian origin. all three defendants are currently in custody. in july of last year, one of the defendants, khalid mehdiyev, was found with an assault rifle, two ammunition magazines, and approximately 66 rounds of ammunition not far from the victim's home in brooklyn, new york. he was arrested by nypd officers and charged with federal firearms offense. as detailed in the superseding indictment unsealed today, mehdiyev was not acting alone. we allege that mehdiyev and his co-conspirators, poland omarov and rafat

spring of 2007, suddenly i go to my computer and i start seeing these emails that say, "there is an iranian-american academic who is being held in a tehran prison. do everything that you can to try to get her out." and of course i started sending that to many people, and i received it from women's groups, from journalist groups, from human rights groups. i don't remember any of those emails saying that haleh esfandiari was a grandmother who was detained. how did you survive? you were 105 days in solitary confinement. >> it was very tough, maria, but i am a very disciplined person. and being 67 years old and a student of iran, having studied carefully, a lifetime, iran, i knew how to handle my interrogators, and i knew how to make it possible for myself to survive under those very difficult and dire conditions, both physical and mental. >> hinojosa: when you say that you knew, what do you mean? i mean, you had never been in prison, you had never been interrogated before. how did you know how to survive these people who were terrorizing you? >> i was interrogated for four months before i was detained.

killed a top iranian general in an airstrike this month it didn't take long for iranian americans to fill the impact over the past few weeks hundreds of them were reportedly detained and questioned for hours at border crossings and airports while trying to return home to the u.s. many of them like this u.s. citizen were about to see we're coming back from a concert in town with their families have a look as soon as the realize that we were born in we were born in iran to lead us to the officer and the. 4 or 5 and i just the many questions. many personal questions like facebook you can write my parents. birth my uncles who are in the u.s. he asked about my cousins everything we were all in the u.s. president donald trump has toned down his threats against iran but he found anger in iran by tweeting support of protesters who have been in the streets for the past 2 days all this tension has iranian americans warning about relatives back in iran as well as backlash joining us to discuss what iranian americans are going through we have how to is a community organizer based in chicago we a

this country done to the majority of the countries in the middle east if you're an american like an american and iranian american fashion blogger is dubbed an american by a t.v. host for criticizing u.s. policy in the middle east. cia agent jeffrey sterling who was sentenced under the espionage act for talking to a new york times reporter has been released from prison. in one day worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to. a former cia director has admitted the u.s. has interfered in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it was quote for a good cause. looks at whether double standards are at play no one likes a spoiler. interference especially when it comes to american elections. and spoiled and unsightly or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when we don't mess around other people. i am only for a very good didn't do a vine video on a former cia for a very good cause. said the former director of the cia it's funny

spring of 2007, suddenly i go to my computer and i start seeing these emails that say, "there is an iranian-american academic who is being held in a tehran prison. do everything that you can to try to get her out." and of course i started sending that to many people, and i received it from women's groups, from journalist groups, from human rights groups. i don't remember any of those emails saying that haleh esfandiari was a grandmother who was detained. how did you survive? you were 105 days in solitary confinement. >> it was very tough, maria, but i am a very disciplined person. and being 67 years old and a student of iran, having studied carefully, a lifetime, iran, i knew how to handle my interrogators, and i knew how to make it possible for myself to survive under those very difficult and dire conditions, both physical and mental. >> hinojosa: when you say that you knew, what do you mean? i mean, you had never been in prison, you had never been interrogated before. how did you know how to survive these people who were terrorizing you? >> i was interrogated for four months before i was detained.

country done for the majority of the countries in the middle east if you're an american i don't like an american. and iranian american fashion blog was dubbed un-american by a t.v. host for criticizing u.s. policy in the middle east. it's three o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international line with me and welcome to the program investigators are not ruling out terrorism as a possible motive for sunday's atrocity in southern russia a gunman killed five people attacking christian church goes in russia's republic of dagestan he was seen on the c.c.t.v. cameras later carrying a rifle and entering the church grounds well to get more on this story but across live. what's been written is it revealed about the attack. well the investigative committee at this stage is looking into all possibilities and ever officially confirmed today that terrorism is also one of the leads they are looking into the attack took place in the town of kids here in the southern russian province of dagestan on sunday the attacker was identified as. twenty two year old resident by the local authorities he targeted christian

as an iranian-american comedian, people were sending me their stories. i thought what if i had left the revolution, come to america, landed here and they would have put me back on a plane with my family and sent me back? what kind of trauma would that have caused me and my family? how would that have affected my destiny? when you think about that and it becomes personal, originally i just went out there and started posting on facebook and telling people my story. it just caused people to argue. rather than posting like that, i'm just going to start putting out the stories that i'm hearing. when i would get articles of different people being affected by this, i would post it on my facebook page or talk to friends of mine. i had a friend of mine who's a republican who really did not understand all the fuss that was being made from the protesters. he thought it was just a little bit of inconvenience at some airports. no. people are being affected. once people hear the real life stories of other people, i think it opens their eyes. i think americans in gener

a it's a romantic comedy an iranian american girl falls in love with an american guy and in the in the process of trying to get married with each other i play her uncle and i. fall in love with the mother of the american god was played by rita wilson so while they're getting their thing go on i'm getting i'm getting our thing go with rita let's take a look at a clip from a simple wedding. this is my fiance alleyne salama move him. oh boy it's nice to meet you too. but i should regret he said he is very happy to me and. i think congratulation i hear you're a doctor around copy what he's actually he's an artist yes me straight out of balloons oh yeah you go thank you and you think about me really excited to meet your family. it's very exciting so excited and so excited saying what attracted you to do this you know i love the message of the movie 1st of all it's a comedy it's fun it's silly it's light but it's a message of bring in cultures together right i am all 'd for that you know my my comedy special netflix special i had was called immigrant a lot you know my tour is called peaceful

have not been announced, although some sources have announced that one of these two people is an iranian americanyou agree with me or not, but one of the things that disturbs me greatly about our present relations with iran and... "the fact that those relations are likely to never improve at the rate we're going, is that we are in effect going to drive the iranians into the arms of the chinese? if you think about the world the way i do, right, you start thinking about chinese influence in the persian gulf, and from an american point of view, we want to minimize chinese influence in the persian gulf, but i think we're now pursuing policies that are going to have exactly." the opposite effect, especially with regard to iran. although mershammer clearly earmarked us administrations about their fundamental foreign policy blunder with respect to iran, the classic post-revolution policy of the washington administrators remained the same for decades, based on an article written recently in the foreign policy research institute, in the post iran revolution period, the white house authorities split iran's

that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> an iranian-american pastor sentenced to one of iran'sest prisons. he was arrested last summer while working at an orphanage in iran. he is accused of threatening iran's national security by helping to create a network of christian churches in private homes. the state department is callling for his release. >>> in end incident, anti- government protests have entered a fifth day. president mohammed morsi has declared a state of emergency. protesters claim he has not followed flu with reforms he promised after the uprising in 2011. >>> sand was international holocaust remembrance died. 68 years ago, soviets liberated the largest concentration camp in auschwitz. in russia, candles were lit while prayers were said and during a service in vatican city, pope benedict xvi called for respect and dignity for all. >>> new this morning. >> the government announces an all-out attack on hackers. will have details on a new plan being rolled out to protect the nation's most sensitive information. time now is 4:51. progress-oh! -oh! -oh! oh! oh! ♪ what d

amantahiri is an iranian american activist who lives in the bay area.e was disappointed the team did not take any public stance still he understands the dangers and hopes the matchup sends a message worldwide awareness and to know that iranians are fighting this course abc 7 news. and team usa also did not appear to make any solidarity gesture at the game today. however, as we've reported a few days ago the us soccer federation did post that image of an iranian flag without the emblem of the islamic republic as for medi and karina. they are now heading home to here in the bay area. they say during their time at the world cup. they have had their signs flags and t-shirts confiscated by security. they've been followed harassed and recorded by supporters of the islamic republican. okay, please thanks very much in the south bay a big opportunity is coming to one san jose neighborhood abc 7 news reporter. zach fuentes shows you how a nonprofit plans to give residents the gift of safety. the seven trees neighborhood in san jose is a place its residents are pr

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. >> well, i'm an iranian american muslim lady, and as such growing up i didn't really have any iconsto look up to. i yearned to be mexican because there were so many mexicans in our schools and they had icons like cesar chavez and everyone could say their names like aralia and rodrigo. with me they were just like, megan, megrime. i grew up in palm springs, california, and palm springs is a really weird place. it's simultaneously like one of the top five retirement communities and one of the top five gay cities in california. it's the kind of place where you'll see people dancing to lady gaga while adjusting their catheters. one of the main problems of being a muzz in today's world is people immediately conflate that with terrorism and violence. i'm like 5'3" and a half, and i dress like a cartoon character. i ended up getting a master's degree in african american studies. i was the only non-black person in the department. the purple represents all the black students, and the non-purple part is the me. people were sort of like, it's weird, don't you have your own people? and i would b

relations with buy an iranian-american author and journalist. and later the senate returns at 2 p.m. eastern for general speeches. no roll call votes are expected today. >> also today the heritage foundation hosts current and former deputy assistant defense secretaries from the obama and george w. bush administrations to talk about guantanamo bay prison in cuba and its detainee policy. president obama recently renewed his push to close the facility which he's described as lingering problem that will worsen if it remains open. his comments came amid a growing hunger strike at guantanamo that's spread in recent weeks to include about 100 of its 166 inmates. you can watch the discussion live over on c-span or listen to it on c-span radio at noon eastern. >> she's the first first lady to earn a college degree, and during the civil war soldiers serving under her husband called her the mother of the regiment. opposing slavery, she influences her husband to switch from the whig party to the anti-slavery republican party. and she hosts the fist annual w

an iranian-american father...have each been sentenced to ten years in prison...in iran. this, according to iranian media tuesday. siamak namazi and his eighty-year-old father - baquer namazi - are accused of spying...and cooperating with the u-s government. now the u-s is calling on tehran to release the namazis...and all americans detained there. toner says: "we join recent calls by international organizations and u.n. human rights experts for the immediate release of all u.s. citizens unjustly detained in siamak and baquer namazi, so that they can return to their families." iran's islamic revolutionary guard arrested the young businessman earlier this month...while he was visiting family in tehran. he has written articles calling for improved ties between iran and the u.s. meantime, his father - a former iranian governor...and united nations official...has been in custody since february. he has dual u-s and iranian citizenship. experts say this situation shows the hardliners in the islamic republic... as it undermines the iranian president's stated goal of reviving iran

an indictment charging three people with involvement in the plot to assassinate an american citizen stemming from an ongoing investigation into the islamic republic's efforts to assassinate an iranian-american journalist, author and human rights activist on u.s. soil. matab are currently under arrest. another unsuccessful attempt to assassinate masih alinjad, an opposition journalist of the islamic republic, was previously published that they had collaborated with the revolutionary guards to eliminate this political activist. on august 6 , 1401, a stranger in the city in the hot summer of new york. the cctv camera of mrs. masih alinjad khaled is known as 24 years old from the republic of azerbaijan and a resident of yonkers, new york, who was arrested with a kalashnikov weapon for 38-year-old steel under the alias araz ali tabi of georgia, slovenia and the czech republic, but took over the management of the group under the alias of ferrari mirzayev of russia. and the republic of azerbaijan is managing the operation from inside the territory of iran. 22 states of denial of denial new york air broccoli went to do a mission and sent a phone number to khali along with the driver's lice

now there's concern the alleged plot -- which an iranian-american was arrested for last month -- ay havvof a broader plan. "it's hard for me to believe that there is just one lot involving the u.s. i think e need to explore whether ttere are other plots going n to other countrres -- in otterr countries."i'm greg blaak, reporting. iran maintains that thh accusations are just an attempt by the u-s to distract americans from domestic issues a son of oustee libyan leeder poammar gadhafi is now in rebel custody.that's according to c-n-n sources... who say on wednesday... fter a 4-hour gun battle.his father... moammar gadhafi... has been in hiding for monnhs... since being overthrown from power. a new poll finds presidential hhpeful herman cain... is leading the g-o-p race.an n---c waal street journal survey finds cain is the irss choice... among 27-percent of republican voters.that puts the georgia businessman aaead of forrer massachusetts governor, mitt romney... who has 23-percent of the votes... aad exxs ggvernor rick perry... who'ssin third place with 166percent.cain has been climbing in

pressure on iran to release an iranian-born american christian pastor who was recently sentenced to eight years in prison there. saeed abedini was convicted last month of threatening iran's national security by helping to expand the house church movement. 80 members of the u.s. congress wrote to secretary of state john kerry calling on him to exhaust every possible option to secure abedini's release. >>> we have a special report today on the city in the u.s. that has become nearly as identified with evangelical protestants as rome is with catholics or mecca, with muslims. it is colorado springs, colorado, where our correspondent saul gonzales found that the most prominent religious institution there, focus on the family, is tryin t to soften its image as an ultra-conservative leader in the culture wars. >> reporter: with pike's peak as a backdrop, the citizens of

american, but my nationality is iranian. my ethnicity it persian, my culture is middle eastern, everything about me sends off all the warning signals for israel. and so the experience of aning to get through the airport in the 21st century is a reminder to everyone that despite the way globalization has brought us closer and has diminished the boundaries that separate us as nations, as ethnicities, as people, as cultures, despite all of that, all you got to do is spend a few minutes trying to get through this airport to know that those divisions, those things that separate us are still very much apparent. >> reza aslan will take your phone calls on the war on terror and the instability in the middle east, live for three hours, sunday at noon eastern on book tv's weekend of nonfiction books and authors starting this friday on c-span 2. book tv, television for serious readers. >>> now you can keep in touch with current events from the nation's capital using any phone any time with c-span radio on audio now. call 202-626-8888 to hear forums, listen to a recap of the day's events at 5:00 events at p.m. eastern on washington today. you can also hear audio of the five network

she's an iranian american political analyst based in washington, d. c. welcome to the w. one is salman rushdie of significance for iranians and also the iranian diaspora. well is mostly famous across no, that was one world by the books are counted versus which many muslim found offensive to their religion the portrayal of the overall. and muslims, as a general, that doesn't necessarily mean that all muslims are all iranian, believe that their reaction to his book should have been violent or violent. and over the years, past years, even they iranian government and my son has tried to distance the self, especially after the passing of the former supreme leader from the original thought . the fact was still stands. i wanted to be clear, but they are running. government has on officially even issued some guarantees the u. k. government, after the ties were severe because of the fact was that this is not something that state policy that iranian state would be pursuing us with. still don't know if this attacker high official ties there. i and government of what the exact motive

>> with my artists, eight of them are working in tehran, iran, the capital city, and one is an iranian americanased in san francisco. the problem is really a collective exploration in the day and the life in tehran. it is the largest city in the middle east. for the gallery, one of the first pieces you see is one piece which is a laser-cut peace, it taken directly from the map of the city itself -- a laser-cut piece. it represents the geography of the city. it is positioned right next to another work by an artist who took a 77 taxicab runs and let the potholes and the city turns of tehran dictate how the city would be portrayed. >> [singing] >> one of the other pieces that to experience in the one-day exhibition is from another artist, a recording of state radio from tehran, and is played for four speakers. >> [speaking foreign language] . >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> the entire gallery is covered with white vinyl on white walls, really minimalist, and the kind of the merged -- of emerge as you walk through the room. >> [speakin

an american citizen is accused. these charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the islamic republic's attempts to assassinate an iranian-american journalist, author and human rights activist . they are currently in custody. the failed attempt. another for the assassination of masih alinjad, an islamic opposition journalist, the initial information was published earlier, the person who had cooperated with the revolutionary guards to eliminate this political activist , august 6, 1401, a stranger in the city in the hot summer of new york, hani masih's cctv camera alinjad, a 24-year-old man from the republic of azerbaijan and sutton yankers of new york, who was arrested with a kalashnikov weapon and worked for omar steel, 38-year-old with the nickname azar, against the tour of georgia, living in slovenia and the czech republic.