Telmah Parsa is an Iranian university student (writing under a pseudonym) whose work has appeared in the Daily Beast, New York Post,and other publications.

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Blog Entries by Telmah Parsa

Inside Tehran: Practicing Democracy, Iran Style

35 Comments | Posted June 12, 2009 | 02:10 PM (EST)


On the eve of Iran's presidential election, the Islamic state shut off the text messaging services of all cell phones, and as I am writing this it is still impossible to text someone in Iran. Also, state-imposed "parasite" signals have been reported to be interfering with satellite TV channels particularly...

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Discovering the Holocaust in Iran

38 Comments | Posted May 20, 2009 | 09:11 PM (EST)


"There was no Holocaust... And even assuming part of it were true, what gave them the right to build their houses on our lands?"

I cannot recall how exactly the conversation had shifted this way. But I so badly wanted to throw the spoon in my hands at the speaker...

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The Day I Met The Supreme Leader

18 Comments | Posted April 21, 2009 | 02:31 PM (EST)


Obama's new approach, the intention to engage in a direct dialogue with the Iranian leaders, would be a more realistic attempt in dealing with a country that escapes every definition. However, there is one epithet that can be justifiably applied to this country at anytime: Iran has always been the...

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