Shirin Ebadi begins her speech by leading the crowd in chants of, Political prisoners must be freed. She then goes on to say, “For thirty years you have heard only of death and this is where it got us. Now is the time to talk about liberty. Long live Liberty.” Ebadi continues by saying that [...]

It seems like a good time revive this video made last year (that’s right! one year ago!) by the amazing team at MideastYouth.com. This video uses excerpts from Martin Luther King Junior’s brilliant “I Have a Dream” speech and quotes from John F. Kennedy and puts them in the mouths of representatives of the Iranian [...]

Once again, we will be adding subtitles soon. Pejman: 5000 kilometers from Iran, we are with you. Mehry: Dear Iranians, we are with you. Everywhere in the world, we are Iranians and in our hearts their is always a place for Iran and Iranians. Kader: I am in love with all Iranian women. From young [...]

We will add English subtitles soon. In this interview, Shirin Ebadi makes these points: 1. Iranians are getting news from outside Iran, especially from the Internet. The problem is that the government of Iran has reduced the speed of the internet so that you have to wait 30 minutes for a site to load. 2. [...]

One of the people in attendance at the Amsterdam rally on Jully 25 made this excellent little film featuring Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan. It begins with Kader Abdolah’s amazing talk, in which he tells the croud, No more death. Just go! Akhavan says, “We can chant Death [...]