Media Coverage
Newspapers, radio, and televisions stations around the world have been covering the story of Kian and the other detainees in Iran.
This page provides a sampling of the media coverage.
October 1st to Present:
- The Huffington Post, 17th October
- Fox News, 17th October
- Foreign Policy, 16th October
- Washington Post, 14th October
- Wall Street Journal, 12th October
- Washington Post, 10th October
- Washington Post, October 9th
- Wall Street Journal, October 8th
September 1st to September 30th:
- Foreign Affairs, 30th September
- U.S. State Department, (link to full press briefing), 25th September
- Wall Street Journal, 25th September
- New York Times, (also translated and republished in Persian with the heading “Ahmadinejad breaks promise to Kian” (not to rearrest him)), 23rd September
- New York Times news blog, 22nd September
- Associated Press, 20th September
- New York Times, (incorrectly reports that authorities have not confirmed arrest), 18th September
- Washington Post, 15th September
- New York Times, 14th September
- Associated Press, 12th September
- New York Times, 12th September
- Press TV, (Iran’s report on US-Iran agreement to first face-to-face talks in 30 years), 12th September
- New York Times, 11th September
- Asr Iran, (Iranian official news agency’s partial translation of Washington Times profile highlighting Kian’s innocence), 7th September
August 1st to August 31st:
- LA Times, 26th August
- Press TV, (Iran’s official report on the trial), 25th August
- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 25th August
- Reuters, 25th August
- Washington Post, 21st August
- Payvand, 20th August
- Mehr News, 19th August
- New York Times, 19th August
- Associated Press, 17th August
- France24, 15th August
- PressTV, (Iran’s false report of Kian’s release), 15th August
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10th August
- Indian Express, 10th August
- Daily Times, 9th August
- AC360/CNN, 6th August
- Irish Times, 5th August
- The New York Times, 4th August
- Aftab Yazd (sample of Farsi reprint of a portion of the 1 August AP article defending Kian) , 3rd August
- LA Times, 3rd August
- The Hindu, 2nd August
- Christian Science Monitor, 2nd August
- Columbia Spectator, 2nd August
- CNN News Room, 1st August
- The New York Times, 1st August
- The Guardian, 1st August
- The Huffington Post, 1st August
July 10th to July 31st:
- The Guardian, 31st July
- Associated Press, 28th July
- Wall Street Journal, 27th July
- The Guardian, 26th July
- Associated Press, (also translated and republished in Persian media), 17th July
- Washington Post, 17th July
- The Guardian, 17th July
- Columbia Spectator, 14th July
- Fox News, 13th July
- Morning Edition, NPR, 14th July
- PressTV, (Iran’s first acknowledgment in English of Kian’s arrest), 13th July
- Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (RFERL), 14th July
- Reuters, 13th July
- Washington Post, 13th July
- Washington Times, 14th July
- Huffington Post, 10th July
- International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, 10th July
- LA Times, 11th July
- New York Times News Blog, 10th July
- Time/CNN, 10th July