Shabnam Rezaei on CNN June 12th The Day of Iranian Elections 2009

Heidi Collins interviews Shabnam Rezaei on CNN about the 2009 Iranian elections. The topic is the youth and women vote in Iran during this election and how each candidate has responded to these important demographics in Iran during the campaign. Mir Hossein Moussavi and Zahra Rahnavard as well as President Ahmadinejad have had different tactics and those are discussed in this interview. The interview was on June 12th as polling stations were closing in Iran, despite the fact that they stayed open longer. Shabnam Rezaei is writer/direct/producer of children's TV shows and she is the Editor In Chief of online cultural magazine PersianMirror, serving as an Iran Expert in this interview on CNN. Her companies are www.persianmirror.com, www.noroozproductions.com and www.bigbadboo.ca. She is based between New York and Vancouver and is currently working on the 1001 Nights TV show in the animation studio in Vancouver "Big Bad Boo". Previous projects include Babak & Friends - A First Norooz (Persian New Year) as well as the TV series Mixed Nutz.

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