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  • 3 weeks ago | thecairoreview.com | Kourosh Ziabari

    In January 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of the influential commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qassem Soleimani, prompting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to place a de facto moratorium on any negotiations with the White House. Five years later, a breakthrough in relations may be in the making as the two traditional nemeses meet again.

  • 3 weeks ago | unherd.com | Kourosh Ziabari

    CensorshipFree SpeechIranislamic republicJournalismrestofworldSociety Over 30 years ago, in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, Seyed Hossein Ziabari decided to launch a magazine. Called Hatef, the Arabic and Persian for “Voice”, it was a journal of culture and society, focused especially on the endangered Gilaki language spoken in this rainy, lush valley by the Caspian.

  • 1 month ago | tacno.net | Kourosh Ziabari

    Foto: PexelsMnogo prije nego što je Elon Musk preuzeo Twitter za nenadmašnu pomoć od 44 milijarde dolara samo da bi ga preimenovao u X, govor mržnje bacio je zloslutnu sjenu na društveni medijski prostor na perzijskom jeziku. Otpuštanjem futurističkog magneta polovice moderatora sadržaja kompanije, 80 posto inženjera u odjelu za povjerenje i sigurnost i gotovo cijelog Ethical AI tima, otvorili su se kapije uvredljivog jezika koje koriste korisnici koji objavljuju poruke na perzijskom.

  • 2 months ago | ips-journal.eu | Kourosh Ziabari

    Long before Elon Musk took over Twitter for an unbeatable handout of $44 billion only to rename it to X, hate speech had cast an ominous shadow on the Persian-language social media space. With the futuristic magnet’s dismissal of half of the company’s , 80 per cent of the engineers in the trust and safety department and almost the whole Ethical AI team, the floodgates of abusive language employed by users posting in Persian were opened.

  • 2 months ago | theamericanconservative.com | Kourosh Ziabari

    Foreign Affairs What Have the Iran Sanctions Achieved? Forty-six years of aggressive economic punishment have, perversely, only entrenched the ayatollahs. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Sanctions on Iran were first rolled out soon after the suspension of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington on the heels of the 1979 hostage crisis.

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Kourosh Ziabari
Kourosh Ziabari @KZiabari
24 Apr 25

My latest for @unherd on the ongoing war on #Iran's journalists: "in the most literal sense, I grew up with Iranian #journalism, and all its triumphs and challenges. I saw censorship and financial hardships, outdated labour regulations and corruption." https://t.co/R1MnRpF5qE

Kourosh Ziabari
Kourosh Ziabari @KZiabari
23 Apr 25

RT @hxhassan: A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud…

Kourosh Ziabari
Kourosh Ziabari @KZiabari
23 Apr 25

RT @NASA: "Love moves us towards the stars." —His Holiness Pope Francis In memory of @Pontifex, we offer this 2017 conversation between th…