In July 2019 Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, received a rare journalist’s visa to Iran. On the day he was due to fly home, he was detained.
He was held in Tehran for seven weeks while those back home desperately tried to secure his return.
In November, Nick returned to Iran for the first time since his detention, accompanied by The Economist’s digital editor, Adam Roberts. In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence, Adam and Nick discuss the experience and reflect on what it’s like to work as foreign journalists in Tehran.
Read Nick’s original story, Trapped in Iran.
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