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A new edition of the Monday Roundtable with Pegah and Raha joining Jian in the Roqe Studio to weigh in on the unwritten rules involved in the Iranian obsession with tea, the complexities of Iranian reactions to the growth and demonstrations of Islamists in the West, the latest on a new hunger strike by Narges Mohammadi in prison in Iran, and Jian’s traumatizing encounter with a leaking ghormeh sabzi container in his car.

Roqe Ep. 294 - Roundtable: The Politics of Tea & Ghormeh Sabzi, Islamism Goes West, Narges on Strike

A new edition of the Monday Roundtable with Pegah and Raha joining Jian in the Roqe Studio to weigh in on: (1) a new outrageous edict by Iran’s Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution to rename celebratory Persian days such as Yalda and Chaharshanbe Suri; (2) the latest way the IR has found to impose gender segregation in schools; (3) a look at how Iranians are caught in the crossfire of global protests these days;  and (4) explanations for Manoto TV’s new memo about the possibility of closing down. Plus, Jian provides more details on the great “ghormeh sabzi disaster” of last week.

Roqe Ep. 296 - Roundtable: End of "Chaharshanbe Suri"?, Iranians in Protester Crossfire, Manoto Memo

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