Golnaz Esfandiari

Golnaz Esfandiari appears in the following:

Iranian Youths Arrested for Getting 'Happy'

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Iranian authorities are pushing back against a global dance phenomenon. Homemade videos set to the Pharrell Williams song have been recorded in more than 140 countries.

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Iran's Pre-Election Media

Friday, June 07, 2013

Next week, Iran is holding its first presidential election since the one in 2009 that sparked the protests in the street known as the Green Revolution. The Iranian government is hoping to avoid a repeat of what it saw in 2009, in part by restricting the free flow of information in the country. Bob speaks to Golnaz Esfandiari, a senior correspondent for Radio Free Europe and editor of the Persian Letters blog, about what the Iranian media landscape is looking like in the run up to the election.

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