Kumars Salehi
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I believe when I fall in love with you it will be forever
episode 266 of DYA: the indispensable Navid Zarrinnal and the irrepressible @urorientalist.bsky.social join me to dissect the worst talking points of the year thus far from the liberal Iranian diaspora
Iran War Diary (Day 151): Who wants to be a Malamationnaire?
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ep 265 of DYA, now in technicolor: Alex Aviña and @samsacks.bsky.social are back to review the worst things that happened at this World Cup and play my artisanal soccer trivia game
Delete Your Account #265 – Group of Death
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I know I’m wading into dangerous waters but I’ve had about enough of hearing about Taylor Swift’s wedding
"Intifada Talks" continues! Join us tomorrow 7/8 at 12:30 pm ET/8 pm Iran time to hear Helyeh Doutaghi and Bikrum Gill in conversation on imperialism and anti-imperialism as global class struggle www.crowdcast.io/c/intifadata...
Colonialism, Imperialism, and National Sovereignty
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ep 264 of DYA: friends of the show Alex Aviña, @adnanhusain.bsky.social and @samsacks.bsky.social on what’s been happening outside the stadium at the World Cup deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/episode-264-...
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 264 – The 49th Team
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by friends of the show Alex Avina, Adnan Husain and Sam Sacks to review the group stage of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup. The gan...
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ep 263 of DYA: Navid Zarrinnal, @adnanhusain.bsky.social, and @urorientalist.bsky.social and I reconvene to discuss how Iranians view the global impact of their resilience, how support for the Axis of Resistance registers on the Iranian political spectrum, and whether we should all convert to Islam
Delete Your Account Podcast: Ep. 263 – Iran War Diary (Day 80)
Roqayah is off this week, but Kumars is joined from Tehran by historian and journalist Navid Zarrinnal in another special collaboration with The East is a Podcast and The Adnan Husain Show on day 80 o...
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the correct left-wing position is that American imperialism is the primary contradiction in the world and the US Nation State has been a force of destruction, genocide and chattel for its entire 250-year existence. This will have to be confronted and resolved to move the ball forward.
The left case for venturing to the forbidden desert containing the advanced technology of a civilization that destroyed itself:
on the new DYA AFTER HOURS: we look back on the ceasefire that never was in Lebanon and discuss Roqayah’s “do’s and don’t’s” for foreign journalists
Delete Your Account Podcast: Ep. 262.5 – The ceasefire that never was (free preview)
This week, Roqayah and Kumars devote the hour to a news roundup and analysis of Roqayah’s reporting on the reality on the ground during the latest fake ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebano...
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ep 262 of DYA: the brilliant @msjamshidi.bsky.social joins me and guest-host @norabf.bsky.social to explain why Iran’s regulation of the Strait of Hormuz is legal, probably, and why it matters
Delete Your Account Podcast: Ep. 262 – Iran's control of the Strait is legal, probably
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by returning guest-host Nora Barrows-Friedman and returning guest Maryam Jamshidi to discuss Maryam’s recent article in The Natio...
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Delete Your Account, The Adnan( @adnanhusain.bsky.social )Husain Show & The Colony Archive "Iran War Diary (Day 35)" Navid Zarinnal, Kumars( @kumars.bsky.social )Salehi www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmeS...
Iran War Diary (Day 35)
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this week’s column by Roqayah for DYA is unlocked and free to read: “Walking through my own neighbourhood in Chiyeh, one is struck not only by the scale of loss but by the quiet determination that continues to animate the people who remain, that manifests in small, almost ordinary gestures.”
Last Week in Lebanon: Black Wednesday and collective resilience | Delete Your Account
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ep 261 of DYA: Navid Zarrinnal of The Colony Archive joins @adnanhusain.bsky.social and me from Tehran to discuss the impact of US-Israeli bombing, the government's war communism, what it would mean for Iran to be a global power, and much more
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 261 – Iran War Diary (Day 36)
This week’s episode is a collaboration with The Colony Archive and The Adnan Husain Show. As Roqayah continues to report from the front lines of Israel’s assault on south Lebanon, Kumars is joined by ...
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whenever people in movies use horses as transportation it just feels so wrong to me that I can’t focus on anything else. Even watching Gandalf riding Shadowfax in the first Lord of the Rings makes me physically uncomfortable like I know you have a magic horse but please slow down
ep 260 of DYA x East is a Podcast x The Colony Archive: Navid Zarrinnal is back to update @urorientalist.bsky.social and me on conditions in Tehran, how Iranians are responding to escalating US-Israeli terrorism and what victory would mean for Iran and the world
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 260 – War Diary
This week’s episode is another collaboration with The Colony Archive and The East is a Podcast. As Roqayah continues to document the resistance to Israel’s attempted ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon,...
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new by Roqayah for DYA: "The targeting of Sweeney and Sbeity, who were injured in the attack, should be understood within a broader historical and political framework. ... Al-Qasmieh bridge should also be understood as a vital connection that ties one part of the south to another."
Last Week in Lebanon: Israel targets journalists, collapsing main bridge in the south | Delete Your Account
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proud to share something I helped organize: Join us TOMORROW at 10:30 am ET for a sneak preview of the upcoming documentary "A Red Road to Palestine" with the director, Kanien’kehá:ka filmmaker and activist Clifton Nicholas, and producer Franklin López!
"A Red Road to Palestine" (2027): Preview + Q&A with the filmmakers
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people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...
Today at 12 PM EST with Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist.bsky.social) and Kumars Salehi (@kumars.bsky.social) Iran vs. the Declining Kayfabe Empire www.youtube.com/live/3NSTWdp...
"The Americans are responsible for what Trump did, and they have to prove otherwise." "It's their duty to stop this."
Kumars Salehi@kumars.bsky.social · 5mo agoep 259 of DYA: Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit on what led to Hezbollah entering the war against the US and Israel and the legacy of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in West Asia
ep 259 of DYA: Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit on what led to Hezbollah entering the war against the US and Israel and the legacy of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in West Asia
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 259 – A Hero
Kumars is off this week, so Roqayah is joined from the top of the show by war correspondent writer and video journalist Hadi Hoteit, producer of “Free Palestine TV” and “Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf...
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on the new DYA: historian and host of The Colony Archive Navid Zarrinnal joins @urorientalist.bsky.social and me on the phone from Tehran to discuss the US-Israeli attack, the martyrdom of Ayatollah Khamenei, and how Iranians are responding
Delete Your Account Podcast: Episode 258.5 – May all this be sacrificed for you (free preview)
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Seyyed Khamenei died with more dignity than anyone who abandoned Iran, who decided white people and Western imperialism were the lesser evil, will ever have in your meaningless lives. Oh you're relieved? Your dreams will be laughed at and forgotten. He will be a hero forever
new by Roqayah for DYA: "Ramadan renders death both sharper and softer. Sharper because the month intensifies awareness of return and of the thinness of the veil between worlds... Softer because it frames loss within the conviction that suffering is not meaningless"
Last Week in Lebanon: Afternoon at the martyrs' cemetery | Delete Your Account
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