“You're heavily controlled when you're on a press visa and here I was just sort of...allowed to roam freely in Tehran.” Middle East correspondent Nicolas Pelham talks about his summer as a guest of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on “The Economist Asks”
IN JULY 2019 Nicolas Pelham, The Economist's Middle East correspondent, received a rare journalist’s visa to visit Iran. But on the day he was due to fly home he was detained by intelligence officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one of the country’s most powerful institutions..
Although unable to leave, he was later allowed to roam the city without a minder and found a paradoxical liberation in captivity. He gained a rare insight into life in Tehran, recording the sounds of the city as he explored. In this podcast, he tells Anne McElvoy his extraordinary story. Runtime: 40 min
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