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Iran has long been a leader in the ugly industry of silencing journalists within and beyond its borders, but Saudi Arabia’s murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul earlier this month eclipses even Tehran’s depraved treatment of reporters.

Theoretically, the Saudis’ blunder could give Iran a rare opportunity to improve its international standing by correcting its abysmal record on free expression and distancing itself from the growing repression of the media by its Arab and Turkish neighbors.

Early indications, though, are that Iran is determined to continue its tradition of silencing reporters on the flimsiest charges. The detention of journalist Pouyan Khoshhal is the latest example.…  Seguir leyendo »

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For years, staffers of the BBC’s Iranian-language services — and their family members back in Iran — have endured threats to their safety and liberty. Last week the BBC took extraordinary and unprecedented action. It filed a complaint with the United Nation Human Rights Commission on behalf of 152 employees of its Persian-language service against the government of the Islamic Republic, hoping to halt a systematic campaign to silence journalists.

The problem isn’t new. But the broadcaster decided it had to act publicly last November, after Iran’s judiciary moved in August to seize the assets of Persian Service staffers and blocked financial transactions between them and their family members in Iran.…  Seguir leyendo »

Mary Rezaian, the mother of Jason Rezaian, spoke with reporters in Tehran on August 10. Vahid Salemi/Associated Press

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For most of the years that I was based in Iran as a correspondent for Time magazine, my working life approximated a clumsy script for a television spy drama. I was regularly obliged to meet with intelligence agents who monitored my writing and hectored me to disclose the identities of sources. These interrogation sessions usually took place in empty apartments across Tehran, places where no one could have heard me scream, and always with stern warnings that nobody could know they were taking place.

I got used to seeing an unidentified number flashing on my cellphone, picking up a call from a voice that would not identify itself.…  Seguir leyendo »

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La noticia que saltó el pasado 10 de octubre referente a la retirada del permiso de residencia de la corresponsal de «El País» en Teherán, Ángeles Espinosa, por parte de las autoridades iraníes, no es más que la punta del iceberg de la campaña sistemática de acoso contra la prensa llevada a cabo por el régimen de los ayatollahs. La periodista ya había sido arrestada en Qom, el pasado julio, después de entrevistar a Ahmad Montazeri, hijo del ayatollah reformista, Hussein Ali Montazeri. En la misma línea de actuación, dos periodistas alemanes fueron arrestados recientemente por haber entrevistado a un hijo de Sajineh Ashtiani, la mujer condenada a lapidación por adulterio y cuya ejecución ha sido conmutada por la de ahorcamiento, debido a la presión internacional pidiendo su indulto.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Our reporter Parnaz Azima finally made it out of Iran yesterday. Iranian authorities, who had blocked her exit from the country since January, returned her passport two weeks ago but then proceeded to create a series of bureaucratic obstacles that prevented her from returning to her family and colleagues. Azima, who has U.S. and Iranian dual citizenship, works for Radio Farda, the Persian-language broadcast service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the congressionally funded broadcasters based in Prague.

Azima is one of Iran's best-known literary translators. She is famous for her translations of Ernest Hemingway's works. In January she traveled to Tehran to visit her ailing 94-year-old mother and unwittingly became ensnared in a larger game being played by Iran's regime.…  Seguir leyendo »