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Baziya - Babak Jahanbakhsh

Episode 146 1 hr 36 min

We talked about love with Jahanbakhsh, known as the “Sultan of Emotion”. About the days when life got so hard we said: it can't get worse than this... but it did. Even much worse than we imagined. About the days we thought we couldn't go on, and then, once we had come through them, said to ourselves: we never thought we were this resilient... This is just one piece of our long, fascinating conversation with Babak Jahanbakhsh. Watch the full conversation, as always, on Monday on Baziya's YouTube channel.

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Episode 146Audio

Baziya - Babak Jahanbakhsh

We talked about love with Jahanbakhsh, known as the “Sultan of Emotion”. About the days when life got so hard we said: it can't get worse than this... but it did. Even much worse than we imagined. About the days we thought we couldn't go on, and then, once we had come through them, said to ourselves: we never thought we were this resilient... This is just one piece of our long, fascinating conversation with Babak Jahanbakhsh. Watch the full conversation, as always, on Monday on Baziya's YouTube channel.

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Editor's Note: Why Baziya?
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Editor's Note: Why Baziya?

Why “Ba Ziya”? Because this is where questions get asked that truly matter to people but rarely get a chance to be heard. “Ba Ziya” is a space for frank, deep, non-judgemental conversations about society, the economy and our lives today. Here different views are heard, so listeners can think more consciously and reach their own conclusions. “Ba Ziya”: a microphone for the people of Iran.

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Baziya - Pouria Bakhtiari
1 hr 5 min
Episode 143Audio

Baziya - Pouria Bakhtiari

Is Iran's economy on the verge of collapse?! In episode twenty of Baziya we talked with Pouria Bakhtiari, writer, economic expert and maker of the Ecotopia podcast. For years Pouria has tried to take economics out of numbers and charts and explain in plain language how it affects our daily lives. This time, in a casual conversation, we talked about Iran's economy: from decisions that, as Pouria puts it, should have been explained to a president with an animation, to inflation that governments themselves started and the path that can lead to hyperinflation — and on to Dubai's self-made people!!! Watch the full conversation between Ali Ziya and Pouria Bakhtiari on Baziya's YouTube channel and listen in podcast apps. Vitabiotics, always on the people's side.

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Baziya - Kia Davoud Esfandiari
1 hr 30 min
Episode 142Audio

Baziya - Kia Davoud Esfandiari

In these feverish days for the dollar, we gave this episode of Baziya to a conversation with economic expert Kia Esfandiari, and we chatted about a lot! From how the government created inflation and may be profiting from it, to how fewer cats on the street might tell us inflation has risen, to what is going to happen to Iran and how he sees the uncertain future! Watch and listen on Baziya's YouTube channel and in every podcast app. As always, Vitabiotics stands with us and with the people.

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