Julia McFarlane
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503 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 16 Jan
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Very little footage is trickling out of Iran and the reports we've heard here are impossible to confirm.
But even with protests ebbing away, the economic problems that sparked this crisis remain.
A teacher here told us her salary only covered the first 10 days of the month and that Iranians just wanted their basic rights.
Hidden behind this mountainous border, Iran's regime is reimposing its control.
But that repressive control hides the regime's growing fear, as Iranians lose faith in its power to deliver protection from foreign attacks or prosperity at home.
Lucy Williamson reporting from the Iran-Iraq border.
Well, the United States appears to have paused any potential military strike on Iran, at least for now.
Donald Trump had suggested one might be imminent, but appeared to back off when he said that the killing in Iran had stopped and there had been no executions there.
Various outlets are reporting that he was persuaded not to go ahead after regional leaders warned him it could very well lead to further instability.
Salman Sheikh is a Middle East expert and former advisor to Kofi Annan, and Anshul Pfeffer is The Economist's Israel correspondent.
Anna Foster asked Salman Sheikh first why regional powers such as Saudi Arabia and Israel, who are no friends of Iran, appear to have stopped US military strikes on it.
And he told us with a tear in his eye, they're going to break this place and it's going to create immense harm.
So I think what we have today in the emerging new world order is actually where Middle East actors, particularly Gulf actors, actually have agency.
Do you think their calculations would be different, Salman, if there was an obvious focused opposition ready to go?
to be able to see our negotiations possible with the current Iranian regime, which has been doing horrible things and is a transition possible in the country, because I think most Iranians would say that this regime has lost legitimacy.
But, you know, can security be established?
Can a leadership emerge?
And of course, very real things like
the missiles, the nuclear material, probably more than 2,000 kilograms, which is out there somewhere between, enriched between 3.67% to 60%.
Yeah, various concerns.
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