Jon Snow
We may have failed to engage with him first time round, but this time, despite all the hurdles and pitfalls, 2013 could prove to have been Hassan Rouhani’s hour, with more to come.
In a US TV interview, Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani says the country seeks peace and friendship and has no nuclear weapons as he continues on a seeming rapprochement campaign with the west.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum and a panel of experts consider how Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, will change his country, the Middle East, and relations with the west.
What legacy does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leave for his successor, the “moderate” cleric Hassan Rouhani after eight years of controversial power?
Jon Snow
As Iranians head to the polls to choose their next president, Jon Snow – the only British journalist Tehran -asks if this could be a moment for radical change.
After a first round of voting, the 2005 battle for the Iranian presidency came down to two contenders: former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran’s hard-line mayor.
Jon Snow reports from Tehran, where Friday’s presidential elections will bring a new leader, but little hope of the radical reform campaigners want.
Documentary maker David Patrikarakos, one of the producers of tonight’s Dispatches on #NuclearWarGames, considers the foreign policy question becoming more urgent by the day.
Riot police clash with demonstrators and foreign exchange dealers in Tehran over the collapse of the Iranian currency, which has lost 40 per cent of its value against the dollar in a week.
President Obama raises the stakes in the battle to thwart Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, telling the United Nations that time for diplomatic efforts to resolve the situation is not “unlimited”.
Syria walks out of an international summit after Egypt’s president uses his first visit to Iran in 33 years to condemn the Syrian administration as “an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy”.
Channel 4 News takes a closer look at the hurdles between Israel and an attack on Iran.
Two American men convicted of spying in Iran have arrived in Oman after they were freed from jail. Their release came as President Ahmadinejad arrived in New York for United Nations talks.
An American woman who spent 14 months in an Iranian prison accused of spying has spoken to Channel 4 News about the plight of two men who are still being held in Tehran.
Iran’s spy chiefs say they have foiled an American plot to recruit agents in the Islamic Republic.