Welcome to Not Another One to this weekend edition of our podcast.

Now I'm joined by Tim, Tim Montgomery. I'm Ian Martin. We don't have Steve, who is stranded by

the Great Storm, and Miranda is going to try and join us. But I think just before then, Tim,

we'll just kick things off really by talking about what is the biggest story of the moment,

potentially even the biggest story of the moment, potentially even the biggest

story of the decade, which is Iran.

Unbelievable.

Yeah.

It's been a bad week, of course, for X for reasons.

I don't think we need to rehearse.

But it's been the place where I've gone again and again and again to find out what's happening in

Iran, generally momentous events and the mainstream media, I'm really puzzled by it, Ian.

They haven't given justice to this story in any serious way. And that's just

not me, you know, a usual BBC moan they're having a go. You know, people like Simon Sharma and lots of other

people across the spectrum have wondered where our national broadcaster is. It's been the sort of subtext to the

otherwise much more important story that a near 50-year-old authoritarian regime might be finally

coming to an end. Yeah, I mean, I have to confess, Tim, that initially I didn't agree with you.

When we were debating this over the course of the holidays or, I mean, we went spending our entire festive breaks talking about this.

But when we were engaging on WhatsApp, my initial view was, look, anything that happens between Christmas and New Year in a British large newsroom has to be understood by news consumers as you have to understand that newsrooms are largely empty.

They're operating a skeleton staff and the senior

editors, most of them are away and there'll be a duty editor who will probably be senior or seniorish.

And they're reluctant to make major calls on stories. If something massive happens like that is a single event story,

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