Iran

By now you surely have heard about the controversial results of Friday’s election in Iran. While polls in Iran are notoriously unreliable and the election results were considered hard to predict, [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t07d8QLIDK0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fmy_videos_edit&feature=player_embedded] As you read this, Iranians have just finished voting in one [...]

Since I returned from Iran, I have been poring over photos and videos and preparing to report back about the amazing experience I had, and to mobilize people to take action to pressure our [...]

I’m at this forum now on polling Iranians before this Friday’s Presidential election. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com

President Obama’s highly anticipated speech in Cairo today aimed to help ameliorate the United States’ image in the Muslim world and begin to heal relationships with Muslim countries that were [...]

Now that I am back in the states, I have finally had the time and the fast internet connection to get my photos from Iran up on the web. You can view them on flickr and facebook. Enjoy!

On Monday, KGO-TV, San Francisco’s ABC affiliate, interviewed Becca about her experiences in Iran. Click here to see what she had to say.

On our last day in Tehran, we had a meeting with Dr. Hosseini, professor of American Studies at Tehran University, and some of his M.A. students. The American Studies program has only existed for [...]

As our group was walking from our visit to the nearby Armenian Christian Church to catch a cab to Imam Khomeini’s house, I finally saw the infamous building with a mural showing the American flag [...]

While I was out shopping near our hotel in Tehran today, I stopped in a market for a bottle of water. A man in the store named Hossein recognized that I spoke English, and when he asked where I [...]