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Disabled Iranian woman seeks new opportunities in the West


In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, Mahana Jami, 34, center, talks on the phone while inside a government run camp for refugees and migrants in Bosilegrad, some 250 kilometers southeast of Belgrade, Serbia. As a little girl in a wheelchair in Iran, Jami used to watch other children play on a slide and wondered why she couldn’t do the same. She then made a promise to herself to always dream big and never let her disability stand in the way.

BOSILEGRAD, Serbia – As a little girl in a wheelchair in Iran, Mahana Jami used to watch children playing on a slide and wonder why she couldn’t do the same. She made a promise to herself — to always dream big and never let her disability stand in the way. Read More »

Behind the Headlines/Nov 23

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will look at the continuation of the workers strike at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Factory and Ahwaz Steel Plan.

More members of Rouhani’s cabinet have admited the presence of money laundering in Iran as the regime’s factions are locked into a new round of friction and rivalry over the issue of joining the FATF convention, which would stop the regime from financing terror groups.

Why certain factions of the regime refuse to accept the presence of money laundering in Iran and why the regime has chosen to crack down on the workers rather than talk to them about their grievances?

Our guests tonight are Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Mr Hassan Shariatmadari.
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A Window to the Fatherland/Dr. Nourizadeh/Nov 22

We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

We continue the program with talking to our special guest of every Thursday, Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, by asking him about the eruption of workers’ strikes and protests across the country.
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Behind the Headlines/Nov 21


In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will look at the continuation of the workers strike at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Factory and Ahwaz Steel Plan, as a group of Iranian lawyers have offered to defend those workers arrested during their protest actions.
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Behind the Headlines/Nov 20

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will look at the continuation of the workers strike at Haft Tapeh Sugar Factory and Ahwaz Steel Plant;

The possibility of Zarif’s impeachment after he revealed that billions of dollars of money laundering takes place in Iran each year;

Another member of Rouhani’s cabinet admits the presence of money laundering in Iran;

The economic ties between Iran and Iraq after the US sanctions are imposed on Iran;

New discoveries in cancer treatment in UK;

A European bank is fined by US for dealing with Iran.
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