Voice of America’s Persian-language operations are back up and running as the U.S. government tries to beam information into Iran amid the widening conflict between Israel and Iran.
Voice of America and another US-funded international network, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, are promoting their programming — partly to persuade the Trump administration to keep the proverbial lights on.
“Iranians flocked to us for reliable news,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor in chief Nicola Natasha Careem said in a memo, crediting the network’s Persian language branch, Radio Farda, with reaching “audiences inside Iran despite every conceivable attempt to silence us.”
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