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Loss Of Prominent Show 'Parazit'
USnews: To Americans, Parazit was known as an Iranian version of the Daily Show. To Iranians, it was proof the opposition had a voice. And to U.S. lawmakers, it was as one of the best tools they had to move the needle on human rights in Iran, and to change the country’s theocratic rule.
The much-watched Persian-language show hosted by the U.S. government-run Voice of America for years spent half an hour weekly satirizing Iranian politics and culture. The show reached 19 million people via the Internet, through bootleg CDs, and illegal satellite dishes. It became one of VOA’s most popular shows to date, in one of the broadcaster’s biggest audiences.
And Parazit angered the repressive Iranian government enough that the mullahs labeled the two brilliantly subversive, Washington-based Iranian expats who ran it “deceitful, belligerent spies.”
But last November, Parazit abruptly went off air — and though Iranians mourned its disappearance, the U.S. lawmakers who championed the show didn't have a clue.
The popular show was dark for almost nine months before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee learned about it, according to a staffer on the committee. The committee was not told about the show's disappearance by VOA, but instead by a member of the show >>>
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One thing for sure both kambiz and saman were
by Soosan Khanoom on Sat Aug 25, 2012 09:34 AM PDTanti war and anti sanction. Ok, now..that should tell much as why they got the X!!! Not mention appearing on the daily show ... Who knows, perhaps VOA Is more Fox news orientated. But why these two talented individuals should even stick to VOA which probably is nothing but a propaganda anyway.? I think they should start a website and start broadcasting .. The amount of hit that site will get would pay them twice what they ever got from VOA and besides it is much better for their image than being seen as the VOA propaganda mouth piece.
In any case, I was a fan and I shall remain one and hope to see more of them.
Yet more evidence of U.S. complicity with IRI...
by ayatoilet1 on Sat Aug 25, 2012 09:10 AM PDTIts public enmity, private amity!! When will this deception end?
Parazit was begining to seriously affect the IRI's standing with the people of Iran. Short sections were shared widely across the internet and even replayed in many other Iranian sattelite shows. And they were having an impact. A serious impact.
My own experience (with my TV show) is that once you begin to have an impact i.e. really threaten the Mullahs; the proverbial 'rug' gets pulled from under your feet. I am suspicious that the U.S. adminstration has some secret desire to keep the Mullahs in power. The West wants to keep the IRI. IF you don't believe me just as yourself some basic questions. Consider the following:
Last week General Dempsey visited both Iraq and Afghanistan and then flew back to Iraq. Does anyone wonder if he used Iranian airspace in this travels? Or did he fly arround Iran twice (add some 4 hours to his trip)??
Iranian planes fly across Iraq routinely to supply the Assad regime. Who manages Iraqi air space??
The sanctions are not affecting the regime in power in Iran at all. And Iran's oil exports to China have doubled. What is it that the West has that the Iranians can not buy from China? (When China is producing everything for the West anyway, what is it that the Sanctions are supposed to do?)
The idea of all this is to maintain the regime, BUT contain it. Keep it as a local feared source for arm sales and strategic balance - BUT NEVER liberate Iranians to pursue their real economic (and political) opportunities. This is a game of deception that has gone on for two long. And this cancellation of PARAZIT is one example of that.
Not much different!
by Arj on Sat Aug 25, 2012 07:08 AM PDTOn Ten, which has replaced Parazit, is not much different in terms of content (brings up the same issues, pokes the same fun and...) only in a different style. In a portion of the show Saman Arbabi plays a character (an IRI news anchor!) which resembles The Colbert Report as opposed to The Daily Show.
OnTen sucks big time
by MaziarB on Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:50 AM PDTWatched 1.2 episodes and gave up. Who are these morons and who told them to make this stupid show? Our tax dollars funded this? I would like to have a refund! Bring back Kambiz Hosseini.
Hats off to the VOA for doing the IRI's handiwork
by cheshmetroshan on Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:22 AM PDTand canceling Parazit under the pretext of "difficult talent and staffing issues." But to maintain that astounding failu-, er, accomplishment for NINE WHOLE MONTHS though without letting the very government that funds it know that the jig was up is, well, enough to make the clerical goon squad in Tehran all hot and bothered.
what a shame
by Fesenjoon2 on Fri Aug 24, 2012 09:10 PM PDTthat they dont put the weekly links up for OnTen here on IC, like they used to for Parazit:
//www.youtube.com/user/TheONTENTV