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Twice Told Tales PodcastFossil fuel controversy: greenwashing or climate action? with Kenyan activist Jusper MachoguWe talked to Jusper Machogu, a Kenyan farmer, agricultural engineer, and activist about climate change activism, fossil fuel controversies.
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2023-07-081h 34Twice Told Tales PodcastMax Blumenthal of The Grayzone sheds light on the perils of Zionism & IsraelIn a thought-provoking interview, we talked to distinguished investigative journalist and author Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone. Blumenthal delves deep into the contentious realm of Zionism and Israel, offering a fresh and critical perspective on the prevailing narratives.
Blumenthal fearlessly tackles the complexities surrounding these subjects, providing insightful analysis and shedding light on the potential dangers involved. Join us as we explore the nuanced dimensions of this ongoing discourse with one of today's most prominent voices in journalism.
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2023-06-3047 minTwice Told Tales PodcastUS elections & Israeli Lobby, RFK Jr. & Zionism, Russia & Israel: with Fiorella IsabelWe talked to journalists Fiorella Isabel about US elections, Zionism, RFK Jr.'s candidacy and his support for Israel as well as Russia opening a branch of its embassy in Jerusalem.
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2023-06-241h 02Twice Told Tales PodcastIsraeli lobby's censorship campaign: Why was Bristol university's professor David Miller sacked?In this episode we talked to David Miller, one of the world’s leading academic experts on Islamophobia and the analysis of state and corporate lobbying. Professor Miller was sacked from the University of Bristol where he taught Islamophobia as part of a course called Harms of the Powerful. The Union of Jewish Students lobbied to have Professor Miller fired because of his work on the relationship between Zionism and Islamophobia.
You can read more about Professor Miller here: https://supportmiller.org/
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2023-06-1857 minTwice Told Tales PodcastJerm Warfare & TTT host Setareh Sadeqi discuss anti-Iran propagandaWatch the original video here:
https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/setareh-sadeqi-on-busting-myths-about-iran
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2023-05-271h 03Twice Told Tales PodcastRepresentation of Iran & Iranians in Hollywood: conversation with British-Iranian filmmakerWe talked to Dr. Reza John Vedadi a filmmaker based in London, UK. Vedadi did his PhD dissertation on a selection of Hollywood movies and how Muslims and Iranians in particular were represented in them.
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2023-05-2552 minTwice Told Tales PodcastIran, Russia, U.S.: Setareh Sadeqi talks to Tim KirbyTTT co-host and founder was invited by @TimKirbyRussiaReloaded to talk about Iran and how Russia and Russians are perceived in Iran.
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2023-05-2336 minTwice Told Tales PodcastHow do Russians perceive Iran? we asked Tim Kirby American expat in RussiaWe talked to @TimKirbyRussiaReloaded about his experience living in Russia as an American expat, about the information war on #Ukraine, Iran, and Africa.
Tim Kirby is an American-expatriate radio host in Moscow, Russia. In 2006, Kirby migrated from the United States to Russia. He is best known for the program Alien on the radio station "Mayak".
Tim Kirby's telegram channel: https://t.me/timkirbyhardcore
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2023-05-151h 06Twice Told Tales PodcastWhat's happening in France? A report from on the ground with journalist Ramin MazaheriWe talked to Paris-based Journalist Ramin Mazaheri about the protests in France and the police crackdown on them.
Mazaheri has over 20 years of reporting and editing experience in television, newspaper, newswire and radio journalism. He is author of hundreds of columns on geopolitics, global economics and the cultures of multiple nations. Reported from across Europe, the United States, Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere.
He has written three books:
France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West’s Best Values - 2022
Socialism’s Ignored Success: Iranian Islamic Socialism - 2021...
2023-05-131h 11Twice Told Tales PodcastSudan Crisis: latest updates with Ahmed KaballoWe talked to Sudanese-British journalist, Ahmed Kaballo, CEO and founder of African Stream, a Pan-African digital media organization. Kaballo has years of experience as a journalist and has reported from different countries including Sudan, Kenya, Venezuela, UK, Netherland, Iraq, etc.
He is now based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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2023-05-1046 minTwice Told Tales PodcastTucker Carlson leaves Fox, Iran 'opposition' coalition collapsesWe discussed @TuckerCarlson385 quitting Fox News and @anyaparampil2578 possible impact on his shift in political viewpoints as well as the so-called self-proclaimed Iranian opposition coalition members exposing each other, quitting one after one.
2023-04-2412 minTwice Told Tales PodcastNews Buzz: Netherlands legalizes euthanasia for children, Yemen & Saudi Arabia swap prisonersAnother News Buzz update
2023-04-2315 minTwice Told Tales PodcastIran: Police to use CCTV to enforce hijab, military staff jailed over 'mistakenly' shooting airliner
Iran uses CCTV and AI to identify women without hijab and fine them.
Iran sentences military officials involved in the downing of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in 2020 when the country was on high alert after attacking a US military base in Iraq in response to the assassination of an Iranian high-profile general who led the fight against ISIS.
2023-04-2207 minTwice Told Tales PodcastIran & Palestine Updates: Son of Pahlavi dictator visits 'Israel', IDF attack Palestinian ChristiansWe discussed the latest updates from Palestine and Iran:
Son of the Pahlavi dictator who was toppled by the popular Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran visits 'Israeli' officials including Netanyahu and the head of the regime's intelligence service.
IDF attacks Palestinian Christians on Easter,, insulting and harassing priests, nuns, and churchgoers.
2023-04-2115 minTwice Told Tales PodcastIs a civil war imminent in Sudan?We talked to journalist Jehron Muhammad, an expert on Africa and married to a Sudanese lady about what's going on in Sudan. Jehron has been visiting Sudan over the past few decades and his wife is currently in Sudan.
2023-04-2039 minTwice Told Tales PodcastWhat's happening in Iran? with @hugo_krugerAt the second largest square in the world, the beautiful Naqshe Jahan square in Isfahan, Iran, I met with @kruger_hugo, a South African engineer and podcaster based in Paris.
I asked him about his experience in Iran and how it's different from what the mainstream media shows us!
2023-04-1723 minTwice Told Tales PodcastIs Islamophobia on the rise India? with Dr. Muzamil MaqboolA week ago, an armed mob of around 1,000 people vandalized a madrasa in Bihar Sharif’s Murarpur locality in India and set fire to its library, burning a collection of over 4,500 books to ashes. We discussed the recent attack and the rise of Islamophobia in India with Dr. Muzamil Maqbool, a podcaster and political commentator based in Kashmir.
Dr. Muzamil Maqbool is found on YouTube: @globalpoliticswithmuzamilm698
#islamophobia_in_india #Islamophobia
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2023-04-1556 minTwice Told Tales PodcastNews Buzz: Trump's indictment, UN Human Rights resolution against Iran, drone attack on Iranian baseWe take a look at the latest headlines in Iran and U.S., offering an analysis of the latest geopolitical developments.
2023-04-0628 minTwice Told Tales PodcastBeirut port explosion: what questions remain unanswered?We talked Dr. Bruce Baird, a chemical engineer and a PhD in History, about his take on the Beirut Blast and the questions surrounding what exactly happened.
2023-04-011h 02Twice Told Tales PodcastWho's behind 'serial poisoning' of Iranian girls in schools?We talked to Arya Jeay, an Iranian based in Western Europe, a student of pharmacy and a social media activist and researcher about the recent school poisoning that made headlines across the world. School girls from different schools across Iran reported symptoms, some ending in hospitals for a few hours.
Follow Arya on twitter: https://twitter.com/AryJeay
Read Arya's recent article for Al Mayadeen about Iranian diaspora's involvement in anti-Iran propaganda:
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/the-scandalous-truth-about-anti-iran-protests-in-europe:-usi
2023-03-2754 minTwice Told Tales PodcastBeirut Blast Show Trial with hosts Chris Weaver & Setareh SadeqiWe discussed Chris Weaver's interview with Press TV on the recent trial on the 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut which killed over 200 people.
watch the Chris's interview on press tv here:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/03/01/699111/Nablus-Massacre
#beirutport
2023-03-2651 minTwice Told Tales PodcastReporting on the Rage Against the War Machine in Washington DCChristopher Weaver, host of Twice Told Tales Podcast and long time anti-war activist, attended the February 19 Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington D.C.
We talked about the organizations and individuals that attended, endorsed, and promoted the anti-war rally as well as those who refrained from doing so, even boycotted the event.
2023-03-0739 minTwice Told Tales PodcastSyriana Analysis joins us for a conversation on yhe aftermath of the devastating earthquake in SyriaWe talked to Kevork Almassian, founder of Syriana Analysis YouTube channel, about the situation in Syria after a deadly earthquake hit parts of the country and took the lives of a few thousands of Syrians.
Main points discussed:
US, EU sanctions on Syria
CAESAR temporarily lifted shows how sanctions affect humanitarian situation
Countries that delivered aids to Syria
2023-02-281h 39Twice Told Tales PodcastWho's blocking humanitarian aid to earthquake stricken Syria? with Vanessa BeeleyWe talked to Vanessa Beeley about the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in #Syria, where war, occupation, and sanctions have created even more obstacles to delivering humanitarian aids.
Watch here: youtu.be/ZLvy712rjjk
2023-02-181h 31Twice Told Tales PodcastIranian expat returns home, reports on #IranProtests2022We talked to Houman Zandizadeh, an Iranian university lecturer and author who has returned to Iran after living overseas for 10 years.
We previously talked to Houman while he was still in Australia and we got him back to tell us about how he feels about his decision to return home as well as the protests he observed first hand in Tehran.
https://youtu.be/YAH2VJkk77A
Timestamps:
10:00 What are the main economic grievances of Iranians?
17:00 Did the CIA-backed regime change plot for Iran achieve its goa...
2023-02-181h 25Twice Told Tales PodcastIs the CIA propaganda war on Iran working? We asked an Iranian ex-journalistWe interviewed Fereshteh Sadeghi, a former journalist and producer with Aljazeera English, about the #iranprotests2022, the recent attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran, and the Israeli attack on a military factory in Isfahan, #Iran.
2023-02-091h 30Twice Told Tales PodcastThe lies you were told about #Iran: an investigation of fake news triggered by Iran ProtestsHosts Christopher Weaver and Setareh Sadeqi shed more light on their piece for The Gray Zone regarding the coordinated manipulation campaign against Iran triggered by the 2022 unrest.
Read the article here: https://thegrayzone.com/2023/01/19/irans-unrest-fake-news/
2023-01-241h 12Twice Told Tales PodcastWhat is the legacy of Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis? we asked Vanessa BeeleyWe talked to independent investigative journalist based in Syria, Vanessa Beeley, about the aftermath of the assassination of Iranian and Iraqi officials, Soleimani and Muhandis, and what the legacy of the two popular figures is for the West Asian region.
#soleimani #Muhandis #Iran #Iraq #Syria #Palestine
6:30 Why is propaganda boring?! (watch https://youtu.be/xNxY9tqp5hI)
7:30 Who's the axis of evil?
8:30 What is the legacy of Trump?
9:30 the infiltration of academia in the UK and elsewhere
14:00 Ukraine becoming a money laundering center
17:00 How does anti communi...
2023-01-1249 minTwice Told Tales PodcastWhat happened to the Resistance after the assassination of Soleimani? Lebanese analyst Marwa Osman explainsWe talked to @MarwaOsmanLebanon , mom of three girls, a Lebanese TV presenter, Associate Professor and activist about the impact of General Soleimani's assassination on the resistance in West Asia.
#Soleimani #Iran #resistance #Lebanon
Timestamp:
3:00 How Zionists tried to cancel Marwa Osman for her political stances in support of Palestine and the resistance forces
8:00 Who was Qasem Soleimani?
13:00 What's happening in Yemen in brief
20:00 Has Iran retaliated for the assassination of its popular general?
31:00 the legacy of the Iranian general
42:00 Where does the American left stand...
2023-01-091h 29Twice Told Tales PodcastAre peaceful protesters receiving death penalty in Iran?In another episode addressing the #IranProtests2022, we talked to Dr. Mansoureh Tajik, an Iranian researcher and lecturer, based in Karaj, Iran. Mansoureh holds a PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina and a professor at the University of Massachusetts, before she moved back to Iran where she's been living for about 10 years.
Timestamps:
4:00 Why Mansoureh left the U.S. to live in Iran
20:00 The programming and propaganda involved in the Iran Protests
28:00 Anti Iran propaganda normalizing violence and ly...
2022-12-241h 25Twice Told Tales PodcastIranian University Student: UN, US don't care about Iranian womenWe talked to Farzaneh, a 24 year-old graduate student in Diplomacy and International Organizations, at the School of International Relations of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Farzaneh told us about the status of women in Iran as well as how she felt about #IranProtests2022.
19:00 Farzaneh tells us about what she would like to see improved in Iran, in terms of women's rights
25:00 Who's actually sexually objectifying women?
33:00 Farzaneh told us about how she felt about the recent unrests
55:00 UN double standards in treating women's rights.
Some sources:
Last Pahlavi shah's saying women are inferior and shouldn't run a country:
https://www.mohammadmossadegh...
2022-12-201h 12Twice Told Tales PodcastIranian protestor: It's not about hijab, but regime changeIn this episode, we talked to Shima, an Iranian university student living in Isfahan. Shima, 19 years old, supports the #IranProtests2022 and like some of her peers seeks fundamental changes to the political system in Iran.
00:28 Shima's observation of strikes and how some shops were threatened by 'protesters' to close.
00:30 Shima believes she and many others are fed up with the current 'regime', but they have doubts about what to substitute the current establishment with.
00:40 She thinks while foreign media outlets helped her and others get...
2022-12-191h 38Twice Told Tales PodcastIs a war on Iran imminent? Are celebrities helping the Iranian women's movement?In the 2nd part of our interview with Iranian author Houman Zandizadeh, we discussed #IranProtests Setareh Sadeqi interview with Breaking Points :
https://youtu.be/lxFTFPXPRUs
Timestamp:
01:00 How are the recent unrests in Iran similar/different from the 2009 unrests?
04:00 There's no Iran to help Iran if the Syrian scenario is implemented on Iran.
06:00 Crippling sanctions imposed on Iran by Trump were actually designed and framed by Obama.
14:00 How the riots are weakening civic movements in Iran
00:30 Could #NATO possibly attack Iran in a similar fashion as what they did to Libya?
2022-11-2158 minTwice Told Tales PodcastAre Iranian diaspora helping women's cause in Iran?Part 1: We talked to Dr. Houman Zandizadeh, an Iranian author while he was spending his last days living in Australia. Houman has moved back to Iran. He did his Ph.D. in intercultural drama. Houman discusses how Iranian diaspora and ex-pat celebrities pursue a regime change agenda for Iran, pushing for sanctions and paving the ground for more hostile actions against the sovereignty of Iran.
Some sources:
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky 40:00 We discussed how Zionist ideology is manipulating U.S. foreign policy with regar...
2022-11-081h 33Twice Told Tales PodcastAn Iranian woman, a journalist based in Tehran tells us about Iran ProtestsNov 1, 2022
We talked to Farzaneh, a journalist with Iran's English language channel Press TV, shares with us her opinion on the protests that started in September in #Iran over the tragic death of #MahsaAmini in police custody. She also elaborates on how the western media's coverage of the protests differs from the realities on the ground.
Timestamp:
00:25 We talked about the JCPOA aka Iran nuclear deal as well as Gene Sharp's regime change tactics.
00:30 Why is Press TV censored?
00:40 how some Western 'activists' miss out on cultural differences
#Ira...
2022-11-081h 07Twice Told Tales PodcastAn Iranian woman's POV: What happens when you challenge the Western narrative on Iran Protests?In the third (and last) part of our conversation with Hana, an Iranian woman based in Tehran, we continued talking about how old and new tactics are used to silence any voice that dares question the mainstream western narrative on various topics including those regarding the global south, in this particular case Iran, but also on covid, Palestine, etc.
You can also watch Setareh's interview on the same topic with Vanessa Beeley here.
#iranprotests #iranregimechange #CIAinIran #iran #WomeninIran
2022-11-0853 minTwice Told Tales PodcastIran Protests 2022: a war of narratives?Oct 22, 2022
In the second part of our conversation with Hana, an Iranian union organizer who has recently come back from Australia where she lived for a few years, we discussed the fight over the narrative regarding what is happening in Iran. We compared the war of narratives on Iran, and Ukraine, as well as the pandemic.
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2022-11-081h 00Twice Told Tales PodcastIranian leftist activist talks to TTT from Tehran about Iran ProtestsFirst part:
Hana, formerly a union organizer in Australia has returned to her home country, Iran. She is doing her a master's in Silk Road political economy online with a Chinese university. Hana is against the so-called morality police in Iran and the obligatory #hijab law. She recalls her experience with the morality police when she was arrested on a few occasions. She tells us about the #iranprotests and if there's actually a 'revolution' going on in her city.
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22:00 Hana shares with us how it felt to get stopped and detained by 'morality police' in Tehra...
2022-11-081h 00Twice Told Tales PodcastIran Protests 2022: a report from inside IranHosts Setareh Sadeqi, based in Iran, and Christopher Weaver from the U.S. discuss the protests in Iran that started over the tragic death of #mahsaamini in police custody.
From the realities on the ground, including what Iranian women inside the country think, to the history of CIA regime change operations and color revolutions were brought up.
Watch the video version on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/mJj3CXuKKDM
Some of the sources:
Setareh Sadeqi 's interviews:
by The Grayzone
https://youtu.be/oUucX0FcBBg
by TRT:
https://youtu.be/nKsTg9C9c-o
by TMJ:
https://youtu.be/JUtb9PC6YYQ
...
2022-10-081h 53Twice Told Tales PodcastIt's all about Iran! An Argentinian PerspectiveThis the second part of an interview with Leandro Bracamonte, an Argentinian professor of Persian. We talked about the propaganda campaign against #Iran, the #Hijab mandate; Iranian culture, and we went on to tap on the issues of #ukrainerussiawar and Palestine! #lifeiniran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdbxn1nYQ9s
2022-10-0253 minTwice Told Tales PodcastArgentinian intellectual falls in love with Iran, speaks fluent Persian!We talked to Leandro Bracamonte from Buenos Aires, Argentina about his experience living in Iran. Leandro is a certified professor of Persian Language and has established the Salman Farsi institute, with students from various countries. In the first part of the interview, Leandro told us about how he became interested in the Persian language, in Iran, and how he decided to move to Iran and gain first-hand experience living in the Islamic Republic.
#Iran #islamicrepublic #islam #shia #argentina #latinamerica #persian
2022-09-1858 minTwice Told Tales PodcastIran from the perspective of a Malaysian researcherWe talked to Dr. Ken from Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Ken has a Ph.D. in Malay Studies (Political History) from the National University of Singapore. Ken spent two years in Iran as a postdoctoral research fellow at Alzahra University, Tehran.
Timestamp:
9:45 We talked about an international tribunal held in Malaysia for the U.S. and UK war crimes in Iraq, back in 2011, which found George W. Bush and Tony Blair guilty.
45:00 We talked about the notion of social justice in Malaysia, Iran, and the U.S.
2022-08-281h 20Twice Told Tales PodcastHer NGO helps children around the world & you'll never guess where she's from!We talked to Fatemeh Khateeb, an Iranian-Kenyan activist and co-founder of the International Tabassom NGO. Fatemeh's father, a Kenyan national, studied in France and Switzerland before he was arrested for his activism. Fatemeh and his father were recently reunited in Kenya after ten years. She tells us about her father's story.
Fatemeh is now on a visit in Kenya, helping an orphanage called Children of Paradise (you can read about the orphanage and donate here: https://gofund.me/cdd4de8c).
20:00 Fatemeh talks about her father's story of resistance a...
2022-08-211h 07Twice Told Tales PodcastAustralian Woman Rides a Bike On the Streets of Tehran, IranWe talked to Janice Webster, from Melbourne, Australia. Janice is a Ph.D. student in Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran, Iran. She developed an interest in the Persian language and pursued her interest in Iranian studies in the largest Persian-speaking country, Iran.
Timestamp:
00:09 Does Freedom of Expression exist in Iran?
00:12 Iranian people's level of political awareness!
00:16 What was the massive gathering on Valiasr Street, Tehran in July about?
00:18 ماجرای ساندیس چیست؟
00:20 Does it feel safe driving around Tehran?
00:27 Tehran's Public Bike system
00:29 Tehran's Tr...
2022-08-161h 43Twice Told Tales PodcastThe world wouldn't believe what this Italian professor did in Iran!In this episode of Twice-Told Tales, we talked to Dr. Raffaele Mauriello from Italy. Dr. Mauriello is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran Iran. He is also an invited Lecturer in the Master's program in Geopolitics and Global Security at the Sapienza, University of Rome. Raffaele has moved to Iran and is currently living in Tehran with his family. We talked to him about his life in Iran as an academic but also as an explorer. He tells us about how the academia in Iran is similar and different from th...
2022-08-081h 42Twice Told Tales PodcastAmerican Gets Vaccinated in Iran! Part II of IIIn the second part of our interview with Benjamin from California, the U.S. we asked him about his experience in Mashhad, Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Timestamp:
1:30: Benjamin talks about his experience with Tajikistan, then Turkey, and the U.S.'s Covid-1 entry requirements!
4:00: Benjamin tells us about his experience flying with an Iranian airliner!
9:00 Benjamin talks about his Iranian Vaccination Certificate and landing with it in the U.S.!
18:00 Chris and Setareh also share their experience with Covid-19 requirements when traveling
21:00: Benjamin talks about Iranians' reaction to Covid-19 policies
30:00 Setareh talks about vaccination and masks in Iran
38:00 Benjamin...
2022-08-0148 minTwice Told Tales PodcastAn American in Tajikistan Part I of IIBenjamin is from California, the United States. His love for the Persian Language and Literature took him on a journey to Tajikistan where he married his Tajik wife.
Benjamin then moved to Mashhad, Iran to get a degree in Persian language and Literature at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad! Benjamin and his wife lived in Iran for 5 years, during the entirety of Trump's presidency and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic!
Timestamp:
00:22: Benjamin tells us how he and his wife met!
00:30: Benjamin talks about a time during Obama's term in office when Iran-US tensions...
2022-07-241h 46
Twice Told Tales PodcastLife of a Scottish woman in IranKirsteen is a Scottish researcher currently residing in Iran! She tells us about her journey to Iran where she lives with her family and her cats! Zeinab Kirsteen studied at Oxford University, UK and has lived in different countries including Germany, the UK, and Australia. In this interview she speaks about her life in Iran and why she has ended up in Qom.
2022-07-171h 15