The Iran Podcast

A conversation hosted on Los Angeles Public Radio about Biden’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran and opposition from Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, with Estee Chandler and Assal Rad. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support the Iran Podcast, go to anchor.fm/theiranpodcast/support

A conversation about the dehumanization of Iranians in US political discourse, media coverage, and cultural products, and how it leads to bad policies that harm Iranians in Iran as well as Iranian-Americans in the United States. Negar Mortazavi moderated this live conversation on Twitter Space with Assal Rad from NIAC, Niki Akhavan from Catholic University, and Pouya Alimagham from MIT. Produced b...

A conversation about the dehumanization of Iranians in US political discourse, media coverage, and cultural products, and how it leads to bad policies that harm Iranians in Iran as well as Iranian-Americans in the United States. Negar Mortazavi moderated this live conversation on Twitter Space with Assal Rad from NIAC, Niki Akhavan from Catholic University, and Pouya Alimagham from MIT. Produced b...

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Vali Nasr, former US advisor for Afghanistan, about the current state of Afghanistan after two decades of invasion and the chaotic US withdrawal, devastating economic sanctions and new waves of refugees, and the future of the country under Taliban rule. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support the Iran Podcast, go to anchor.fm/theiranpodcas...

A conversation about US-Iran relations, nuclear negotiations, the impact of sanctions, and the difficult path ahead for diplomacy. This conversation was recorded live on Twitter Spaces with Trita Parsi from Quincy Institute, Ryan Costello from NIAC, and Sara Haghdoosti from Win Without War, and moderated by Negar Mortazavi. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support t...

Negar Mortazavi talks about the latest developments in the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna in two interviews on NPR and Democracy Now! We also hear a message from our listener & supporter, Justice Arman in Texas. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support the Iran Podcast, go to anchor.fm/theiranpodcast/support

A discussion about the current nuclear negotiations in Vienna and the future of the Iran nuclear deal, with Negar Mortazavi, Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, and Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute, moderated by Bruce Fein and hosted by the National Interest Foundation in Washington DC. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support the Iran Podcast, go to anchor.fm/the...

Panel discussion at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor’s School of Public Policy with Negar Mortazavi, John Limbert, Hesham Alghannam, David Des Roches, and moderated by Dania Thafer of the GIF. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support the Iran Podcast, go to anchor.fm/theiranpodcast/support

Negar Mortazavi joins Angie Seth on Canadian television CTV to discuss racist and misogynistic attacks on female journalists across the world. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support the Iran Podcast, go to anchor.fm/theiranpodcast/support

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Iranian-American actor Arian Moayed about playing an Iranian billionaire in the television show Succession and other roles in television and theater, growing up in America as an immigrant, and the future of US-Iran relations. Produced by Joshua Barlow. Music by 127. Logo by Mina Jafari. To support the Iran Podcast, go to anchor.fm/theiranpodcast/support

Panel discussion in September on TRT World about the future of nuclear negotiations and prospects for reviving the JCPOA.

Negar Mortazavi joins the VOX Media podcast “Today, Explained” to discuss Iran’s detention of dual-national citizens as political pawns, with host Sean Rameshwaram and Washington Post columnist Jason Rezaian.

Iran Podcast host Negar Mortazavi joins an expert panel to discuss the future of Iran-Saudi relations. Panel was hosted by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington DC with Barbara Slavin from Atlantic Council, Alex Vatanka from Middle East Institute, Fuad Ibrahim from DAWN, and Annelle Sheline from Quincy Institute.

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Azadeh Moaveni, Director of Gender and Conflict at the International Crisis Group, about online threats against female journalists who cover Iran, women’s rights and the golden years of reform, how US policy has impacted Iranian women, and feminist movements across the Middle East.

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Iranian-American actor, Farshad Farahat, about his career in Hollywood and his political activism in support of peace and diplomacy between Iran and the United States.

Negar Mortazavi joins a panel discussion about the future of the nuclear deal and diplomacy between Tehran and Washington with Sussan Tahmasebi, Director of FEMENA, Jon Wolfstahl, senior advisor at Global Zero, and Eldar Mamedov, foreign policy adviser at the European Parliament. This discussion was moderated by Jamie Shea and hosted by Friends of Europe.

Iran Podcast host, Negar Mortazavi, joins a panel of foreign policy experts at the Arab Center in Washington, discussing US policy towards Iran and the future of the nuclear deal, with Barbara Slavin, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Ilan Goldenberg, and Mehran Kamrava.

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Eldar Mamedov, senior foreign policy advisor at the European Parliament, about Europe’s relations with Iran in the Biden era and the negative impacts of Trump’s maximum pressure policy.

Iran Podcast host Negar Mortazavi was a guest on another podcast "Spilling Chai" with Anushay Hossain, a journalist and author who is also based in Washington DC. They discussed the complexities of US-Iran relations, Negar's experience as a journalist covering diplomacy between Washington and Tehran, the difficulties of covering Iran from a distance and in exile, online trolling and cyber harassme...

Iran Podcast's host Negar Mortazavi joins the "Beyond the Headlines" podcast with host Leila Gharagozlou and guest Adnan Tabatabai to discuss Iran's future under the new hardline president Ebrahim Raisi.

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Danny Postel , Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University, about Iran’s anti-revolutionary policy in the Middle East, specifically looking at the Islamic Republic's role in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

Negar Mortazavi speaks with Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College, about water protests in Khuzestan province and why there is an ongoing wave of protests across Iran in the past few years.

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Laura Rozen, journalist and member of the editorial board of Just Security, about the status of nuclear negotiations in Vienna and the past decade of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Peyman Jafari, a historian at Princeton University, about recent strikes by oil and petrochemical workers across Iran, and the history of Iran’s labor movement from the Constitutional Revolution to the present.

Negar Mortazavi speaks to Reza Sayah, journalist and filmmaker in Tehran, about Iran’s presidential elections, where the country will go under Raisi, and the fate of the nuclear deal and Iran’s engagement with the West.