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Iran International
Iran International (Persian: ایران اینترنشنال, romanized: Irân Enternešenâl) is a Persian-language satellite television channel and multilingual digital news operation established in May 2017 and headquartered in London aimed at Iranians and people interested in Iranian news, culture, society and sports.[1]
In February 2023, threats from the Iranian government against its UK-based journalists[2] led the network to move headquarters temporarily to Washington, D.C.[
Tehran Insider
Firsthand reports from contributors inside Iran.
(Tehran Insider – special series from reporters inside Iran who conceal their identity to expose the truth of what is really happening inside country)
Eye for Iran Podcast
From Iran International comes the ‘Eye for Iran’ podcast, a weekly show that will take listeners beyond the headlines, deep into the Iran stories that matter most.
With compelling interviews, expert analysis and high-impact investigations, host Negar Mojtahedi examines the latest developments in and around Iran.
The Iranist
The newsletter is sent straight to your inbox every Friday. With 5-15 minutes of reading each week, readers are informed on all things Iran.
Through The Iranist, I offer more than just the usual security-related headlines about ballistic missiles, proxies, and the country’s controversial nuclear program. My newsletter dives deeper, capturing the pulse of ordinary Iranians and activists, highlighting everything from popular social media trends to critical human rights issues.
سلام/hello, I’m Holly Dagres, curator of The Iranist, on Substack—a popular newsletter on all things Iran read by the White House to Whitehall… Today, I’m a senior fellow with The Washington Institute, and my analysis is regularly featured by the Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a Washington, DC-based nonpartisan 501(c)(3) research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy. FDD does not accept donations from any foreign governments.
FDD conducts in-depth research, produces accurate and timely analyses, identifies illicit activities, and provides policy options – all with the aim of strengthening U.S. national security and reducing or eliminating threats posed by adversaries and enemies of the United States and other free nations.
IranWire (created by Maziar Bahari)
IranWire provides factual and up-to-date news focused on Iran.
IranWire is a collaborative news website run by professional Iranian journalists in the diaspora and citizen journalists inside Iran. IranWire empowers reporters and activists by creating a safe space in which they can share and discuss local and national affairs, in an environment free of censorship or coercion. We share our analysis with audiences around the world, publishing in several languages including Persian, English, Arabic, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, and Spanish.
IranWire was founded in 2013 in response to ongoing and brutal assaults on freedom of expression inside the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Uncensored News. On Every Platform.
RFE/RL provides uncensored, trusted news to audiences in 23 countries where a free press is under threat. Join us in our mission to advance media freedom.
Jay Solomon | The Free Press
Jay Solomon is one of the U.S.’s premier investigative journalists and writers, with a global track record that goes back nearly 30 years. He was The Wall Street Journal’s chief foreign affairs correspondent for over a decade, during which he broke some of Washington’s largest stories, such as the Obama administration’s secret cash shipments to Iran. He also served tours in the Middle East, India, and East Asia. He’s an expert on international sanctions, illicit finance, nuclear proliferation, and cyber warfare.
Manouchehr Ganji
Manouchehr Ganji
Minister for Education, Iran (1976-1979)
Manouchehr Ganji was born in Tehran, Iran. A human rights activist since his student days in the United States, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the international protection of human rights while a student at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Between 1969 and 1973, Dr Ganji served as the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur in charge of the preparation of a comprehensive study on conditions of economic, social and cultural rights in all UN member countries, which was published in 1974. In 1973 and 1976, Dr Ganji was elected by the UN Commission on Human Rights to serve, in his personal capacity, as a member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities serving a three-year term per election. In 1976 he was also elected by the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to serve a three-year term in his personal capacity as a Member of the Committee on Human Rights, where he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the covenant.
At the time of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s reign, and during Dr Ganji’s tenure as Iran’s Minister for Education (1976-1979) and Minister of Science and Higher Education (1977-1978), Dr Ganji convinced the Shah to allow the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) to open up permanent offices in Iran. This allowed the ICRC to visit and inspect Iranian prisons and guarantee that no torture was taking place there. The ICRC offices remained open and active until after the Iranian Revolution, when the ruling clerics closed them down in 1980.
In 1979, Dr Ganji was forced to flee Iran to Turkey by foot during the Iranian Revolution. Since then, Mr Ganji has been active in bringing about the Iranian ruling clerics’ human rights violations to the world’s attention. He notably founded the Organization for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for Iran, which aims to educate the Iranian people about their rights and freedoms, and strives towards the establishment of a free and pluralistic society respectful of human rights, the rule of non-discrimination, the separation of church and state and a parliamentary democracy in Iran.
Abbas Milani
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a Professor (by courtesy) in the Stanford Global Studies Division. He is also one of the founding co-directors of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His expertise includes U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. He taught at Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Science until 1986, where he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the university’s Center for International Relations. After moving to the United States, he was the Chair of the Political Science Department at the Notre Dame de Namur University for 14 years. He was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Middle East Center for eight years.
Professor Milani came to Stanford in 2003 and became the founding director of the Iranian Studies Program in 2005. He also worked with two colleagues to launch the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. He has published more than twenty books and two hundred articles and book reviews in scholarly magazines, journals, and newspapers. His most recent books include A Window into Modern Iran: The Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives(Hoover Institution Press, October 2019); Saadi and Humanism (in Persian), with Maryam Mirzadeh (Zemestan publisher, February 2020); and Thirty Portraits, Vol. 1 and 2 (Persian Circle, September 2022 and July 2023).
Negar Mojtahedi is a multi-platform journalist working at Iran International English. She previously worked as a reporter and producer at Global News/Global National, CBC News and CTV in Canada. She is also an investigative reporter who broke the story on Iranian regime interference in Canada, exposing regime-linked affiliates operating in Canada and threatening the lives of Iranian-Canadians. She pushed for answers and accountability on the national security issue from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She is passionate about storytelling and uses her skills to raise awareness, help people and bring about positive representation to combat negative stereotypes. Negar is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her first documentary ‘My dream goes all the way to Iran’ is a powerful portrait of the Iranian expatriate, an immigrant population that is often misunderstood and misrepresented. Negar believes the heart of every story is emotion.
