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Filmmaker Sebastian Walker on the benefits of a “direct conversation” with Iranian leaders, despite draconian restrictions.
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Filmmaker Sebastian Walker on the benefits of a “direct conversation” with Iranian leaders, despite draconian restrictions.

Columbia Journalism Review·Susie Banikarim·2 months ago
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . More than a month into the United States and Israel’s bombardment of Iran, it is increasingly difficult to get reliable information about the war’s toll. The Iranian regime has imposed a near-total internet blackout and continues to crack down on satellite services and VPNs, which reporters, activists, and others in Iran often use to circumvent government control. “Journalists are working under foreign bombs and receiving menacing phone calls from the authorities,” an independent Iranian journalist told Reporters Without Borders . “This political pressure hasn’t stopped with the war. On the contrary, it has intensified since the announcement of Khamenei’s death.” Any reporting that does emerge from the country is especially valuable. Iranian authorities have allowed some foreign journalists in since the war began, including Fred Pleitgen of CNN and Dominic Waghorn of Sky News.…

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