TED Talks
TED: Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan
When filmmaker Desiree Akhavan told her Iranian immigrant parents she was in love with a woman, she knew they would object. She explains why it's worth the risk to let people get to know the real you.
TED Talks
TED: A meditation on Rumi and the power of poetry | Leili Anvar
In an ode to the Persian language, author Leili Anvar unfurls the work of 13th-century mystic poet Rumi and reflects on how poetry gives meaning to our lives.
TED Talks
TED: Life's an obstacle course — here's how to navigate it | Maryam Banikarim
Instead of seeing life's challenges as obstacles, I see them as an obstacle course — a fascinating array of tests that I'm curious to see if I can pass, says community builder Maryam Banikarim. Telling the story of her experience...
TED Talks
TED: Fight for justice — even if you don't live to see it | Golriz Lucina
Storyteller Golriz Lucina recounts how the historic sacrifice of Iranian 19th-century poet and mystic Táhirih planted the seeds for the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests today, offering an inspiring lesson in the value of acting with...
Crash Course
Serpents and Dragons: Crash Course World Mythology #38
This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across Westeros) tell stories of dragons, and their power to destroy, their power to prop up kings, and their power...
Curated Video
FM spokesperson says China hopes for peace in the strait of Hormuz
1. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Liu Weimin walking in to a regular news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Weimin, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman:
"I think the importance of the Hormuz Strait is self-evident. China hopes...
Curated Video
Protest over slaying of pregnant muslim woman in German court
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut...
Curated Video
Hundreds mark anniversary of Israel Lebanon war
1. Wide of crowd
2. Mid of a child sitting on the shoulders of his father and waving a Hezbollah flag
3. Men wearing T-shirts with pro-Hezbollah icons
4. Mid of a man offering candy
5. Wide of Lebanese men singing Arabic songs in group...
Curated Video
Afghan refugees return home from Iran in search of families
Dogharun, on the Afghan border on Northern Eastern Iran
1. UNOCHA (U.N. Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Assistance) officer with map of Afghanistan in foreground
2. UN sign
3. Various of lecture
4. Refugees watching
5....
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Senior cleric slams US for recognising Syria opposition
++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately...
Curated Video
Netanyahu welcomes Canada's decision to cut diplomatic relations with Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday welcomed Canada's decision to cut diplomatic relations with Iran.
"I call on the entire international community, or at least its responsible members, to follow Canada's determined...
Curated Video
At least one dead, four injured in explosion
Night shots
1. Wide shot street in central Tehran where two small bombs went off, crowds, ambulance
2. Mid shot as dead body is loaded into ambulance
3. Blood and scattered money on ground
4. Ambulances at scene with lights on
5. Bloody...
Curated Video
French FM meets Russian president, comment on Iran
Barvikha, near Moscow
1. Wide of exterior of Russian President's residence
2. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and officials sitting down for meeting
3. Cutaway of media
4. SOUNDBITE:...
Curated Video
Preview of parl elex, Khatami, printing of elex posters, analyst
Tehran - 7 March 2008
1. Wide of member of Iran's Experts Assembly and speaker at Friday prayers, Ahmad Khatami
2. Mid of worshipers
3. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ahmad Khatami, Member of Iran's Experts Assembly:
"The Security Council approved...
Curated Video
UK's Hammond and China's Wang leave talks venue
Foreign ministers from the six world powers left Vienna's Palais Coburg on Monday - venue of the latest nuclear talks with Iran - after a frenetic six days of diplomacy.
Nuclear negotiators failed to meet a Monday deadline for the deal...
Curated Video
Tehran residents reax and analysis as talks with P5+1 get under way
++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately...
Curated Video
SYND 15 11 79 US EMBASSY REPORT
Scenes outside the United States embassy in Tehran, crowd with Khomeini posters and anti-US banners, Shah's effigy. Islamic militants praying, black and white pictures of some of the hostages, Ayatollah Khalkhani visiting embassy...
Curated Video
Israeli and Palestinian reaction to meeting between Netanyahu and Obama
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat entering office
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator:
"President Obama spoke about peace without without specifying its requirements to the prime...
Curated Video
Iranian Pres Ahmadinejad comment on Israel, rally at UK embassy
1. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President approaching podium
2. Wide of news conference
3. Cutaway of photographers
4. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President:
"I feel that he does not comply with the orders of...
Curated Video
Israeli PM Sharon meets Russian FM Ivanov for talks
1. Wide shot exterior of Russian ministry of foreign affairs
2. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon entering hall and shaking hands with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
3. Cutaway media
4. Sharon and Ivanov walking up stairs
5....
Curated Video
Secretary of state with Jordan FM, comments on Syria, NKorea
1. Wide of US Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh walking to microphones
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nasser Judeh, Jordanian Foreign Minister:
"While we have taken the political decision at His Majesty's...
Curated Video
Larijani, Solana and Prodi meet with new Iran nuclear negotiator
1. Wide exterior of Italian government building
2. Close of UN, EU, and Italian flags on building
3. Interior, Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, greeting Iranian chief negotiators, Ali Larijani and Saeed Jalili
4. Cutaway of media
5....
Curated Video
Iran - Electorate go to the polls
Iranians were going to the polls on Friday (23/5) to elect their next president, in the fiercest political showdown between conservative and moderate factions in the Islamic government since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The election's...
Curated Video
US State Dept and White House briefings on Iran
White House Pool
1. Wide shot of White House Press Secretary Tony Snow entering briefing room
2. Snow at podium as journalist asks question
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary:
"Well, first, I would resist...