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podcastSimon Interviews Ardeshir Arian for Update on Kamalfar Deportation

On November 20th, Roger Simon spoke with Iranian-American filmmaker Ardeshir Arian. Arian had been in cell-phone contact with Zahra Kamalfar, the Iranian dissident in danger of being deported from the Moscow airport back to Tehran.


videoIranian Dissident Trapped in Moscow Airport - Exclusive Pajamas Media Video

Iranian dissident Zahra Kamalfar has been living with her children under unspeakable conditions in the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport for 73 days. A one-time demonstrator against the extremist theocracy with a lengthy prison sentence, she escaped from an Iranian prison when on a two-day furlough to visit her children.

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November 18, 2006

Ledeen on the Kamalfar Video
Kamalfar and children

Pajamas Media Special Correspondent and noted Iran expert Michael Ledeen gives us some background on Iranian dissident Zahra Kamalfar and why she has been trapped in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport for 73 days.


November 10, 2006

ONLY CONNECT: Reconsidering Jewish-Muslim History
Maimonides

“Jewish-Muslim reconciliation is an imperative in and of itself…. It is an imperative as well for global peace, for an end to Muslim terrorism and the war against Muslim terrorism, and for ending a history over-burdened with recriminations, each side denying the other’s capacity to be fully human, with neither recognizing the other as oneself.”

by Salim Mansur


October 30, 2006

SUICIDE SUPERPOWER: Martyrdom as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Last summer, Lebanon, wearing Hezbollah as a bomb belt, became the world’s first suicide state.



October 8, 2006

The Mullahs' Massacre on the Road to Qom
Armed demonstrators west of Tehran

News filtered out of Iran this Sunday of demonstrations protesting the arrest of supporters of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi, an Iranian cleric fighting against the “Political Religion” that has dominated his country since Khomeini. Rumors also spread that these demonstrations have become violent with fatalities reported. This is when Pajamas Media turns to the American who is more associated with the Iranian freedom movement than any we can think of … Michael Ledeen… for an inside report:

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