Interview · BBC Persian
Can anti-war language widen peace?
A broadcaster’s introduction to a filmed conversation about war, nonviolence and the reach of an anti-war voice.
- Speaker
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- BBC Persian
- Source date
- Updated 30 January 2011 · page metadata records creation on 22 January
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English conversation guide
Broadcaster article by Amir Payam introducing a video excerpt; the printed text is not a verbatim speech transcript.
English editorial guide to a Persian broadcaster article and its described video excerpt. No recorded speech has been reconstructed from the page text.
The question behind the excerpt
The BBC page introduces an excerpt of a conversation about the effect of anti-war language on peace. Its account joins Rabihavi’s writing with his opposition to violence, while distinguishing sustained engagement from participation in a single street protest. Source 1
A composed video
The page describes photographs by Alfred Yaghobzadeh and Kaveh Golestan, music from Kayhan Kalhor and Shujaat Husain Khan, and filming and editing by Omid Salehi. These credits show that the video is a composed presentation of the conversation, rather than merely printed questions and answers. Source 1
The source’s form
The captured article supplies introductory prose, image and production credits, and an invitation to watch the excerpt. It does not contain a complete transcript. Its visible update date is kept separate from the earlier creation timestamp in the page metadata. Source 1
A refusal before the war books
Amir Payam’s BBC introduction reports that, during military service, Rabihavi was sent to Tehran to confront street unrest in the Iranian-calendar year 1357, or 1978–79. According to that account, he handed his weapon to fellow soldiers and fled because he did not want to harm anyone, then returned to the Karun. This is the broadcaster’s biographical account; the printed page does not provide a verbatim account from the filmed conversation or a military-service record. Source 1
The article also attributes to him participation in protests against the Vietnam war before the revolution. Its discussion of bringing love into opposition to war includes his warning that taking part in one street demonstration is not enough. The later Aasoo interview supplies his own longer recollection of teenage interest in Vietnam and war reporting, while this page places it within a broadcaster’s argument about sustained nonviolence. Source 1
Sources & credits
- BBC Persian · anti-war language and peace
Amir Payam’s broadcaster article introducing a video excerpt. Page metadata records creation on 22 January 2011; the visible update is 30 January 2011. The captured text is not a speech transcript.