Kayvon Afshari

Tam-tams participants quickly became eyewitnesses to a private Cessna airplane safely landing on Avenue du Parc near the George-Étienne Cartier monument at 4 p.m. Sunday. Bill Berenholc, 49, owner of the family-run Lester’s Deli, had asked the pilot to take him and his ten-year-old son, Sammy, flying above Montreal to get a bird’s eye view of the city and of the family deli. Engine failure soon turned the outing into a terrifying close-call.

I recently completed work as a consulting producer for VICE on HBO for their upcoming documentary on US-Iran relations, the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, and the country's nuclear program. The piece was hosted by Shane Smith and came out great. I worked alongside two full-time VICE producers to secure exclusive access to a nuclear facility, as well as complete all the other pre-production tasks required to get an American crew to cover a story inside the Islamic Republic of Iran.

On behalf of the American Iranian Council, I am writing to express my deep concern about the discriminatory consequences of a bill that is currently being considered in the Congress, and is set to be bundled into the Omnibus spending bill that will be voted on shortly.