Final Word from Wednesday, June 25, 2025

EU Affairs Min. Martin Dvořák of STAN said on OVM on Sun. that employees of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have their hopes pinned on the U.S. broadcaster's Radio Farda service to Iran, because it could be a way to enable RFE/RL to survive, despite the funding cuts ordered by Donald Trump. The link to Iran is important, Dvořák said, because Farda is a source of information for the Iranians. Pres. Stephen Capus of RFE/RL told Respekt before the war began that Farda was reaching 10% of the Iranian population on a weekly basis. However, Czech-Iranian film director Širín Nafariehová told Czech Radio that people in Iran have satellite TV and get information from abroad. The recent events have brought Iranians - both pro-regime and anti-regime - closer together, she said, and many aren't going to want a regime change that's orchestrated from abroad. Which means that RFE/RL's fate could now depend on how strongly the U.S. Congress wants to tell Iranians things they don't want to hear. [ Czech Republic Czech TV Television United States ]