How A TV Channel Drove The Iran War (S01E115)

badlands podcast by borzou daragahi · Jul 24, 2026 · 20m

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Friday, July 24, 2026, Chicago

Scholar Nahid Siamdoust joins badlands to disuss her new article for The New York Review of Books in which she explores how the Saudi-financed and Israeli-controlled satellite news channel Iran International shaped opinons of the war in both Iran and the diaspora, spewing a distorted vision of the conflict, peddling racist notions about Iranian identity, and artificially boosting support for exiled Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi.

I also discuss the lingering controversy…