Blog posts tagged "Iran"

January 6, 2010 8:33 am 7 Comments

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

January 4, 2010 11:06 am 23 Comments

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

December 30, 2009 12:52 pm 15 Comments

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

December 23, 2009 6:01 pm 155 Comments

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

September 1, 2009 1:35 pm No Comments

Over the summer, the fog of ‘conspiracy’, ‘commercial deals’ and more have clouded around the fundamentals of what we know about the ‘early release’ of the convicted Libyan ‘Lockerbie bomber’. I’ll be surprised if today’s release by Edinburgh and London of the ‘Lockerbie papers’ dispels the clouds significantly.

June 30, 2009 2:57 pm 21 Comments

Iraq is a country I have visited many times since I was first there to report from the front line of the harrowing Iran/iraq war in 1980. Foreign intervention and interference has dogged it for more than a century. No wonder Baghdad is seized with parties and celebration. For the promised American pull-out from Iraq [...]

April 24, 2009 1:03 pm No Comments

Throughout my reporting career, Iran has always held a special place. I was there for the revolution, there too for the seizing of the American hostages and the abortive US military effort to release them. And many times thereafter. One of the greatest highlights thus far in anchoring Channel 4 News was the week of [...]

April 14, 2009 4:55 pm 7 Comments

A former CIA contact of mine with specialist knowledge on the Middle East, and good connections, suggests there could be moves inside the embryonic Netanyahu government to reopen the question of bombing Iran. Such rumours – and I will restate we are just talking about the reopening of a question – have to be taken [...]

February 16, 2009 12:11 pm No Comments

There’s been a lot of anniversary stuff about the fatwa issued against the writer Salman Rushdie 20 years ago by Ayatollah Khomeini. It all happened 20 years ago, and I found myself in my day job in and out of Iran, reporting on Mr Khomeini, and at home entertaining Mr Rushdie in the secrecy of [...]

February 11, 2009 6:05 pm 4 Comments

Yesterday Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the revolution which overthrew the Shah of Iran and established an Islamic republic in the country. It reminded me that I was in Iran in 1980 to cover the aftermath of the aborted mission to rescue hostages from the US embassy in Tehran.