Voice of America and Radio Farda's Persian services cover Israel-Iran conflict despite cutbacks

Radio Farda, a branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and based in Prague, has continued broadcasting even though its managing editor estimated that more than half of its staff had been furloughed. VOA's Persian staff, ordered to go on administrative leave in March, were suddenly ordered back to work last Friday afternoon. Its journalism has continued despite the Trump administration's threat to its future, along with a Persian-language television outlet run by Voice of America. In the early days of Israel's attack on Iran, U.S.-operated Radio Farda, which broadcasts in the Persian language in Iran, debunked a state media report…