Germany’s ARD opens bureau in Iran
October 17th, 2011 - 13:15 UTC
by Andy Sennitt.

Germany’s ARD public broadcaster has opened a bureau in Iran, German press said today. The Tehran-based office was officially inaugurated on Saturday by the editor-in-chief of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) radio network, Arthur Landwehr. SWR is a regional affiliate of ARD and in the past used to cover Iran via Turkey. SWR correspondent Reinhard Baumgarten is assigned to report for the network from Iran.