The Iran Podcast

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 harassment of female journalists, and the Persian cultural practice of Tarof.

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.