Christiane Amanpour

My first podcast series with @global has arrived. Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files with Jamie Rubin He was in the room. I was on the frontline. 20 years married. 7 years divorced. Now we’re picking up the conversation again. 🎧 Launching 13 May 🔗 Listen @GlobalPlayer & all major podcast platforms

You don’t say! Pullout from @nytimes: “The goal: to set in motion the plan to topple the current regime and install Mr. Ahmadinejad. The plan failed.” But my favorite line about this Holocaust denying, Islamic evangelical, is this: “He abandoned his signature oversize khaki windbreaker and began wearing tailored suits. He groomed his messy beard, appeared to get Botox treatment and began learning English.”‼️ Kudos to the NYT for revealing this farce of nature. nytimes.com/2026/07/13/us/…

All this week the famous, and controversial, Running of the Bulls festival has taken over Pamplona drawing in countless tourists. 100 years since Hemingway memorably captured it in his novel “The Sun Also Rises”, we look at its enduring popularity.

For decades, Beirut has faced a brutal cycle of destruction and rebirth. In my report from 1993, how the Lebanese people rose from the ashes of a 15 year civil war, hoping for a new beginning.

A US warship in the middle of a Chinese desert? Some things have to be seen to be believed and @willripleyCNN shows just that in his new report:

On #TheAmanpourHour this week: • @Julie_C_Smith recaps the NATO summit and the “new normal” of Iran tensions; • Smithsonian Sec. Lonnie Bunch joins amid recent White House pushback; • Fmr. UK PM @theresa_may on the Salisbury poisonings & threats facing the West.

"Voters are dissatisfied because they can't see a better future... for their children," former UK Prime Minister Theresa May tells me. "We need to ensure that we can get the growth that will give people that hope."

Eight years ago, Russia attempted a shocking act: using a nerve agent on UK soil to poison a former Russian spy. Theresa May was prime minister at the time, and tells me "the audacity of that, the recklessness of that" meant they responded with "the largest ever expulsion of Russian intelligence officers across the world in history." The documentary The Salisbury Poisonings premiers Sunday at 8pET/PT on @cnn

"No one should underestimate the impact of the Greenland chapter," warns former US envoy to NATO Julianne Smith. "It undermined trust with our allies and led many of them to conclude that there is no going back."

"NATO summits now are about managing one person and one country, and that is the United States," says former US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith.

With strikes between the US and Iran flaring up again this week, "we could be entering a phase where this is just the status quo," warns former US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith.

[Centrist politicians] have tried and they have failed spectacularly to stop the rise of this movement. So far, it's never been this strong and it's never been so close to power." @ThierryArnaud on the rise of Marine Le Pen's 'National Rally'- "there is a a challenge for the center parties that is unprecedented. But there is also a challenge for Marine Le Pen, in the sense that she has to win that credibility battle that she has lost over and over again so far."

"The problem that we face in polarized societies is that even independent court rulings are going to be perceived through this polarized lens." @kbennhold tells me "I'm glad [Marine Le Pen] gets to run because it's better to give voters a chance to have a say here. But, the ruling stands. So the embezzlement case in that sense stands."

‘Back in a tit-for-tat shooting match’ @amanpour & Jamie react to Trump's explosive remarks after he declared the US-Iran ceasefire was "over" and the US launched a fresh wave of airstrikes on Iran Watch Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files 🗂️ on @globalplayer 🎧

"What we face here is organized terror." Veteran Palestinian politician and activist @MustafaBarghou1 says that the ongoing surge in settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank presents "an existential threat".

"Ayatollah Khamenei leaves behind a mixed legacy, one of tremendous repression and violent crackdown on opposition. But at the same time, there is a sizable chunk of the Iranian population that really did believe in his legitimacy and his religious mandate." As the funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei concludes in Iran, Georgetown University Professor Mehran Kamrava tells me "what we're seeing are genuine outpouring of grief on the part of that population that really does believe in... the legitimacy of the political system."

In this conversation with @amanpour @CNN we discuss the escalation between Iran and the US, my view of Iranian domestic politics, the risk of broader war, Israel-Lebanon and the need for persistent and consistent negotiations where I argue that the issues are too intertwined to be segregated. cnn.com/2026/07/08/tv/…

"You might have a NATO that is more European, but you don't want to have a NATO that doesn't have the United States engaged," says fmr. US Ambassador to NATO @IvoHDaalder. "After all... European security is indivisible from American security and vice versa."

"We have very low standards these days." Former Swedish PM @carlbildt on today's NATO summit: "The fact that meeting has happened without a major crisis is now seen as a success... But what is still pending is, of course, the big question about American commitment to Europe."

Who is calling the shots inside Iran? @ChathamHouse's @SanamVakil assesses the current leadership and explains why "the new Iran... doesn't want to be a predictable, cautious Iran.... But of course, they have divisions amongst themselves."

The US & Iran "need to be locked into a room for quite a period of time" to reach a durable deal, says @SanamVakil. On Hormuz, nuclear and more, "these issues are all connected... they need to be moving forward deliberately, continuously, and linked together rather than split apart."