Interviews

Nourizadeh and Sazegara ask whether contacts between Trump and Ghalibaf point to a deal or a new game.

Nourizadeh and Sazegara's weekly discussion of current affairs in Iran and the region, on the eve of Nowruz 1405.

Alireza Nourizadeh's weekly conversation with Mohsen Sazegara on "A Window onto the Father's House," on the latest developments in Iran and the region in the first weeks of the war.

A Japanese-language Bloomberg profile of Mojtaba Khamenei that draws heavily on Sazegara's account. He says Mojtaba was the only one of Khamenei's four sons to pursue the theological credentials needed for leadership, that wartime friendships, including with Ghalibaf, still surround him, and that the political and…

Speaking the day after Mojtaba Khamenei was named supreme leader, he says Ali Khamenei spent 15 years preparing his son, who was effectively the second figure in the leader's office, but that Mojtaba lacks his father's standing and the office's structure has been disrupted by the killing of key figures. He argues that…

Alireza Nourizadeh and Sazegara discuss the question of Khamenei's succession and the shift in Iran's universities.

An Iran-e Farda TV conversation on the Munich rally and what lies behind Washington's confrontation with the regime.

A television interview from Washington on France 24's Tête à tête. He recalls that when the Guards were conceived during Khomeini's exile in France, no one imagined the revolution would win in 110 days, and that the force was designed as a people's army. He says it has since turned into a monster and is now the…

A French-language interview with Emmanuel Razavi for Le Figaro Magazine, published during the crackdown on the protests that began on December 28, 2025. Introduced as a former close aide of Khomeini who created the Revolutionary Guards in 1979 and later broke with his former comrades, Sazegara condemns the killing…

Sazegara argues that the U.S.-brokered Azerbaijan–Armenia peace agreement is a strategic loss for Tehran.

A full episode of Kambiz Hosseini's call-in programme "Open Tribune" with Sazegara as guest.

Sazegara says concerns about espionage and infiltration at the top of the regime are well founded.