Delete Your Account is a new podcast hosted by journalist Roqayah Chamseddine and her plucky sidekick Kumars Salehi. Every week they will talk about important stories from the worlds of politics and pop culture, both on and off-line, in a way that will never bore you. They're radical leftists, but not that kind. The other kind. The fun kind.
You can now watch the video edition of this and every episode of the Delete Your Account free feed on YouTube @kumarsontv . This week's episode of Delete Your Account is a special collaboration with The East is a Podcast . Kumars, Navid Zarrinnal and Sina Rahmani review bad takes on Iran by left-liberal academics and journalists in the Iranian diaspora. Navid is now on Twitter @navidwahraman and…
Roqayah is off this week, but Kumars is joined once again by esteemed friends of the show Alex Aviña and Sam Sacks to review the knockout stage of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup and play the 2026 Delete Your Account Major Men's Soccer Tournament Trivia Game. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War…
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by friends of the show Alex Aviña, Adnan Husain and Sam Sacks to review the group stage of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup. The gang focuses on what's been happening outside of the stadium, including solidarity with Palestine at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the ongoing campaign to ban Israel from international soccer, and what the…
Roqayah is off this week, but Kumars is joined from Tehran by historian and journalist Navid Zarrinnal in another special collaboration with The East is a Podcast and The Adnan Husain Show on day 80 of the US-Israeli war on Iran that began on February 28th. Navid, Sina Rahmani, Adnan Husain, and Kumars discuss the prospect of renewed bombing by the US and Israel, how Iranians view the global…
This week, Roqayah and Kumars devote the hour to a news roundup and analysis of Roqayah's reporting on the reality on the ground during the latest fake ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has now extended after US-brokered negotiations with Lebanon's comprador government. They also discuss the media fueling rising anti-Shia sectarianism, how Israel uses the bombing of Beirut…
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by returning guest-host Nora Barrows-Friedman and returning guest Maryam Jamshidi to discuss Maryam's recent article in The Nation headlined "Only One Side Has Clearly Broken the Law In the Strait of Hormuz. And it isn't Iran" . Maryam is associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, a nonresident fellow…
This week's episode is a collaboration with The Colony Archive and The Adnan Husain Show . As Roqayah continues to report from the front lines of Israel's assault on south Lebanon, Kumars is joined by returning guest Navid Zarrinnal and debutante Adnan Husain. The gang discusses President Masoud Pezeskhian's letter to Americans, Javad Zarif's ceasefire proposal in Foreign Affairs , the Iranian…
This week's episode is another collaboration with The Colony Archive and The East is a Podcast . As Roqayah continues to document the resistance to Israel's attempted ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon, Kumars and friend of the show Sina Rahmani reconnected with Navid Zarrinnal in Tehran after two weeks. Navid updates us on the current mood in Iran as US-Israeli bombardment continues, sharing his…
Kumars is off this week, so Roqayah is joined from the top of the show by war correspondent writer and video journalist Hadi Hoteit, producer of "Free Palestine TV" and "Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf" along with other programming at Free Palestine TV . Hadi and Roqayah discuss the conditions that led to the Lebanese resistance entering the war against the US and Israel, including the latest…
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