Negar Mortazavi speaks to ⁠Dina Esfandiary⁠, Senior Advisor for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group, about the new agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia that was brokered by China, Tehran’s shifting regional policy in the Middle…

Podcast Episode · The Iran Podcast · 06/23/2023 · 36m

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Zep Kalb at the department of sociology at UCLA about Iran’s labor movement and recent rounds of labor protests, and how the Iranian state relies on labor support, bargains with workers, and responds to labor protests.
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Iranians are facing growing difficulties as their economy limps under sanctions and corruption, temperatures rise, and their government resumes efforts to force women to wear the hijab.

Amid growing tensions in the Middle East, Charmaine Cozier asks what Iran wants?

Will Iranians be inspired to go to the polls?

Experts say much is different about this year's presidential election—15 years after the Green Movement—a mass mobilization seeking change within the system.

Negar Mortazavi discusses Iran's snap presidential election held on June 28, 2024

Negar Mortazavi discusses Iran's Presidential Election on Australian Television

Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.

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As the U.S. and Iran prepare for talks this weekend in Oman to discuss Iran’s nuclear weapons program, we speak to journalist ​​Negar Mortazavi about the Trump administration’s negotiation strategy…

My conversation with @Rob_Malley about his years of experience as an American diplomat and negotiator working on Israel-Palestine and US-Iran, his critique of decades of US mediation for the two-state solution, his insider view on Iran nuclear talks under…

🇮🇷 Iran Protests | January 2, 2026

The country faced protests for the fifth day, driven by an economic crisis fueled in large part by U.S.-led sanctions that have accelerated the collapse of the rial and pushed inflation higher. Restrictions on banking,…

Negar Mortazavi speaks to AlArabiya English about protests across Iran and President Trump’s post on Truth Social

Podcast Episode · The Iran Podcast · 01/02/2026 · 5m

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