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  • 6 Jan 2010

    A one off, or the first of many?

    Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow looks at the resignation of Mohamad Reiza Heydari, Iran’s Consul General in Oslo.

  • 4 Jan 2010

    Snowblog's back: I have a good feeling about 2010

    Jon Snow looks forward to 2010 and the changes a general election, Iran, China and the next steps for a climate change deal.

  • 30 Dec 2009

    If Khamenei falls the Islamic Revolution may unravel

    Events are running in Iran, and the revolutionary system is too divided, too much at war with itself to retrieve the initiative.

  • 23 Dec 2009

    Interviewing Ahmadinejad in Shiraz

    Jon Snow blogs about his interview with Iran’s President Ahmadinejad.

  • 23 Dec 2009

    In a full and frank interview President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow that Iran is “solid and united” and defended his right to develop nuclear power.

  • 16 Dec 2009

    Lindsey Hilsum blogs about her interview with an Iranian militiaman of the infamous Basij.

  • 16 Dec 2009

    A defecting member of the infamous Basij militia, the men who wounded and killed in the aftermath of the Iran elections in the summer, talks to Lindsey Hilsum about what he witnessed.

  • 16 Dec 2009

    A former member of Iran’s Basij militia describes to Lindsey Hilsum his shame at “watching people die” after disputed elections as Channel 4 News reveals exclusive footage of protesters under fire.

  • 9 Dec 2009

    Iran’s universities are in ferment. This is the third day of anti-government protests. On Monday, National Students Day, students and others took to the streets and hundreds, maybe thousands, were arrested and beaten by the basiij militia.

  • 4 Nov 2009

    Lindsey Hilsum writes on whether the “hairy beards” of Iran are really in control of the country at all?

  • 21 Oct 2009

    Lindsey Hilsum celebrates the release from prison in Iran of journalist Maziar Bahari, who worked for Channel 4 News in Tehran during the Iranian elections and who was arrested on 21 June.

  • 5 Oct 2009

    The International Atomic Energy Agency does not want to be held responsible for starting a war. The IAEA and its director, Mohamed El Baradei, jointly won the Nobel peace prize in 2005 for their “efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy, for peaceful purposes, is…

  • 1 Oct 2009

    “Iran has begun negotiations with the six major world powers in Geneva on a wide realm of global issues…. The Geneva meeting is based on Iran’s package of proposals released earlier this month.”

  • 30 Sep 2009

    Dozens of journalists have descended on Geneva for what’s expected to be the most futile diplomatic encounter of the year. The Iranian nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, is to meet what some call the P5+1 and others the E3+3. That means the permanent five of the UN Security Council plus Germany, or – if you’d rather…

  • 29 Sep 2009

    US and Iranian diplomats site down for the first direct talks in 30 years in Geneva on Thursday. But Americans are at least as interested in what happens in Copenhagen the next day, when the IOC announces the host city for the 2016 Olympics.

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