Paracite

Television series
German title	Paracite
Country of production	United States
original language	Persian
Year (s)	from 2008 to February 2012
length	30 minutes
genre	Political satire
Moderation	Kambiz Hosseini Saman Arbabi

Paracite ( Persian پارازیت, IPA : pɑɾɑzit ) was a popular weekly half-hour broadcast in Persian on the Voice of America-Persian News Network . The show was a satire on politics in Iran . Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi , Iranian emigrants who lived in Washington, DC , produced the show in initially 10-minute episodes, which were later extended to half an hour. The show was influenced by the American satirical program The Daily Show . Because of their great success, Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi were invited to the Daily Show on January 20, 2011.

Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi , the moderators of Parazit

The guests at Parazit

	2010	2011
1	*	Ramin Asgard
2	Fariba Davoodi Mohajer	Ramin Jahanbegloo
3	Ebrahim Nabavi
4th	Alireza Nourizadeh	Lili Pourzand (The daughter of Siamak Pourzand )
5	Nikahang Kowsar	Mojtaba Vahedi
6th	Omid Mohebbinia	Alan E. Eyre
7th	*	Parviz Ghelichkhani
8th	Farshid Manafi	Majid Mokhtari (The brother of Mohammad Mokhtari )
9	Amir Abbas Fakhravar	*
10	Mana Neyestani	Maziar Bahari
11	Hassan Shamaizadeh	Abolhassan Banisadr
12	Shahram Sherbaf	Massoud Behnoud
13	Rudi Bakhtiar	Babak Dad
14th	Arsham Parsi	Simin Alizadeh
15th	Masih Alinejad	Hadi Ghaemi
16	Farhad Sabetan	Firouz Naderi
17th	Mehrangiz Kar	*
18th	Maziar Bahari	Ladan Boroumand
19th	Ali Afshari	Homa Sarshar
20th	Hadi Khorsandi	Iraj Gorgin
21st	Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam	Mehrangiz Kar and Hassan Yussefi Eshkevari
22nd	Abbas Milani	Hassan Shariatmadari
23	Shirin Neshat	Akbar Ganji
24	Mohammad Mostafaei	*
25th	Mohsen Namjoo	Siavash Ghomayshi
26th	Saeid Shanbehzadeh	Mehdi Khazali
27	Hooshang Amirahmadi	Bahram Moshiri
28	Ebi	Alaei brothers
29	Houshang Asadi	Hillary Clinton
30th	Behzad Bolour	Susan Taslimi
31	Fatemeh Haghighatjoo	Shahram Shabpareh
32	Shahin Najafi	Mehrdad Emadi
33	Mehdi Yahyanejad	Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini and Mehdi Yahyanejad
34	*
35	Hamid Dabashi
36	*
37	*
38	Arash Sobhani
39	Sajjad Karimpour
40	Mohammad Hosseyni
41	Trita Parsi
42	Omid Memarian
43	Mohsen Sazegara
44	Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini
45	Hassan Daei
46	Shadi Sadr
47	Reza Pahlavi
48	*

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Meet the Duo behind Iran's 'Daily Show'" , PBS Frontline Tehran Bureau , August 13, 2010, accessed January 21, 2011.
2. ↑ Tara Bahrampour: Expats' 'Daily Show'-style VOA program enthralls Iranians, irks Their government . In: The Washington Post , December 31, 2010. 
3. ^ Daily Show: Exclusive - Kambiz Hosseini & Saman Arbabi Extended Interview