📻 60 Minutes Podcast Program, Saturday 31 Mordad 1405

Repeating Trump’s claim about the Strait of Hormuz and the intensification of the United States’ economic pressures on Iran; at the same time, internal differences in Tehran have escalated.

We discuss the shift in the military approach of the Islamic Republic and the announcement of an “preemptive operation”; Iran’s Army spokesperson says the country’s military approach has become offensive.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban has banned any kind of demonstration and expanded the police’s powers to identify, arrest, and punish citizens.

We also look at rising tensions between Israel and Turkey over Ankara’s increased military influence in southern Syria; Netanyahu says he will not tolerate this situation.

And at the end, in a BBC Persian investigative report on one of the consequences of the Iran–U.S. war, we talk about the rejection of visa requests for a large number of Iranian students in Norway.