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The perils of standing up to Iran from Europe

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8274 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

From Turkey to France and the UK, Iranians who've challenged the regime at home have often sought safety in Europe. But how safe are these dissidents, really? This week we speak to Fariba Nawa, host of 'Lethal Dissent', a fascinating new podcast series that investigates Iran's efforts to silence those in exile on European soil and beyond. We're also talking about Denmark's remarkable mass rewilding plan, and Slovakia's nationalist crackdown on the use of Hungarian and other minority languages.    You can find 'Lethal Dissent' wherever you're listening to this. It was produced by the team at slow journalism podcast On Spec.    We're crowdfunding a new series! You can find out all about it in the special announcement on our feed, as well as on the crowdfunding page itself: https://4fund.com/z/europeanspodcast. You can also support the weekly running of The Europeans via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/europeanspodcast. Thank you so much to everyone who makes our independent European journalism possible.    This week's Inspiration Station offerings: Bluesky (here's the Sky Follower Bridge) and 'Metrokosmos' on Arte.   00:23 Hot and fresh in your ear canals04:52 Good Week: Denmark's huge rewilding plan11:28 Bad Week: Slovakia's Hungarian minority24:15 Interview: Fariba Nawa on Iran's hunting of its citizens abroad40:09 The Inspiration Station: Bluesky and 'Metrokosmos'45:32 Happy Ending: Granny's revenge on the phone scammers   Producers: Morgan Childs and Wojciech Oleksiak  Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina   Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Bluesky | Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Twitter | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Europeans, your weekly fix of all things Europe served hot and fresh

0:29.5

straight into your ear canals. I don't want anything hot and fresh in my ear canals. This is another

0:35.8

bad metaphor. You need to work on these, Dominic.

0:38.3

Thank you. I'm Dominic Kramer coming to you from Amsterdam and I'm talking to Katie Lee in Paris.

0:44.3

Hi Katie. Hello. Something actually quite historic is happening this weekend listeners. Dominic is actually coming to visit me.

0:52.3

It's true. And yeah, to my shame I I haven't visited her in many, many years, actually.

0:58.3

So, and Katie's been here in Amsterdam many times.

1:01.3

Yeah, can I just say the imbalance in visiting duties in this friendship is outrageous.

1:05.4

I have been to visit you in Amsterdam, approximately five thousand times over the years.

1:10.4

I think you have been here once.

1:12.8

Yeah, but until recently you didn't have a spare room, so there was nowhere to house me. So

1:16.1

in my defence, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You better bring me some strobevaffles to make up for it.

1:22.7

I will. Don't worry. How are things over there in Amsterdam, actually, because they've been pretty tense, no?

1:29.9

Yeah, it's been a pretty weird and sad and scary few weeks here in Amsterdam

1:34.9

since I last spoke to you on this podcast.

1:37.1

And I'm sure lots of our listeners will have heard something about the chaos in this city

1:42.1

that ensued around a football match between the Tel Aviv team Maccabi

1:45.8

and the local Iax team.

1:48.0

Things are now much calmer, thankfully,

1:50.7

but the past few weeks

1:52.4

have brought an incredibly depressing

1:54.6

and toxic combination of misinformation,

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