Fascinating documentary about Iran

[rose~]

There is an excellent BBC documentary about Iran by Rageh Omah available below, everyone might as well take a look before Iran is bombed to pieces.

You really can gain an insight into a different side to the country to that which is normally portrayed in the Western media, even coming from the BBC as it does. It's also evident that Iran is a strong country unified by its Shia traditions which could never be induced into crumbling into civil war by an American attack, nor can it be claimed that Iranian women are burqa-clad victims of opression as some would like us to believe. I think two key points are emphasized: the diversity and modernity of Iranian society, from the ultra-conservative to the liberal; and the impact of the US-backed Iraqi war on Iran.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4679426685869498072

[roddy]

Rose, how are you viewing that? I get a

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.

message from Beijing and I note you are in Shanghai. I'm trying via my usual proxy but no joy.

I've heard good things about this documentary, would certainly like to see it.

[rose~]

Oh, I'm not in Shanghai now, sorry, I didn't know the GFW applies to Google video. I thought it would be fine because Youtube is allowed.

[roddy]

Nothing to do with that, Google itself doesn't allow access - they might be worried about what people might put on there, but I think it's more likely due to heavy bandwidth use and low ad income from China.

[pazu]

OP, are you in China now? When I was in Lhasa last month, Youtube is almost impossible to access, Google Video is the same, everything is so slow that I went for the Chinese version of YT: http://www.tudou.com/

But you can expect nothing except some hilarious clips.

[pazu]

And there's a rather useful program called VDownloader which allows you to download any Youtube and Google Video and convert them into MPG or AVI files automatically so you can watch them on your mobile device easily.

[nipponman]

Hopefully we don't destroy this beautiful country in the name of 'stopping terrorism' or some other crazy ambition...

[HashiriKata]

Hopefully we don't destroy this beautiful country in the name of 'stopping terrorism' or some other crazy ambition...

If anyone cares, do let Bush know that if he were stupid enough to touch Iran, even I would seek him out. LET HIM BE WARNED!

[Pravit]

Thanks for posting that documentary, rose, I really enjoyed it. Recommend everyone to give it a watch!

[nipponman]

If anyone cares, do let Bush know that if he were stupid enough to touch Iran, even I would seek him out. LET HIM BE WARNED!

:knock: :knock: "Yes, Mr. Hashirikata, we're with the Secret Service, we need to ask you some questions..."

lol j/k

[kudra]

Another way to download youtube videos is youtubex.com. Don't know about inside China though.

[rose~]

It's hilarious when they were taarof-ing over the water flask! You can actually see how embarassed the interpreter was, and he said: "No...you just took it...no!", like he'd taken a diamond ring or something!