All Over Iran, Truth Seekers Tune In to Radio Farda
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
WASHINGTON – The typical listener is probably a male (but might be a female), most likely under 30 (but might be over), and is almost certainly listening in a house (but might be in a car). When it comes to knowing its audience, the American-funded Radio Farda knows only two things for sure: that the audience is surreptitiously listening somewhere inside Iran, and that the Iranian government doesn’t want anyone to hear what an American-funded radio service has to say.
How, then, does Radio Farda – which receives about $7 million in federal funding and is hoping for substantially more as America expands its push for democracy in Iran – decide what to broadcast?
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