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Society & Culture

Iran Weekly Wire Podcast

February 27, 2015
IranWire
Iran Weekly Wire Podcast
Iran Weekly Wire Podcast

 

Today on Iran’s Weekly Wire, Roland Elliott Brown looks at how police in Iran are trying to keep a lid on a yearly festival that harks back to Iran’s ancient heritage.

He also looks at urgent new calls for censorship from one of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s favorite clerics.

Iran’s opaque and unpredictable judiciary features here too, as he talks about the cases of two Americans — Jason Rezaian and Amir Hekmati  — who are stuck in the morass of the Iranian courts.

 

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