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Here are a couple of videos I made when I was in Iran this year.  I had two separate incidents with the Basij and a mullah – neither more than a little unpleasant. But had I been a Iranian woman incorrectly dressed in ‘hijab’ (my thighs were not covered by a baggy men’s shirt), the official […]

June 16 2009 Day 4 of the protests  Hi Jess  It’s taken two 2 hours to attach a compressed file for you because the internet speed is so slow.  I just keep trying and trying until it’s done.  Uuuhhh… Stupid Ahmadinejad Government! It is trying to close our access to any kind of media.  For […]

The self-imposed victory by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran’s presidential elections over the weekend means that Iranians face more of the same for another four years.  It is little wonder that they have taken to the streets when ‘more of the same’ involves a farcical democracy, a shocking lack of personal freedoms and the frequent violation […]