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The Moscow-Tehran Axis of Evil

An illuminating conversation with Jason Rezaian, the Iranian-American journalist and former hostage of the Rouhani regime, about the hijab revolution, the response in Bidenworld, and the deepening alliance between Tehran and the Kremlin.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Photo: Alexandr Demyanchuk/SPUTNIK/Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
October 25, 2022

Last month, protests erupted in Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, was killed by Iranian authorities for not wearing her hijab properly. It became an international story for all the obvious reasons, including teenage girls flipping the bird to some of the scariest men in the world. So I turned immediately to my friend and Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian, who understands the dynamics in the country perhaps better than anyone outside its borders.