More than half of the 27,000 participants surveyed also reported that they trusted IR International “a lot” or “to some extent”.During the Mahsa Amini protests on 9 November 2022, the Persian Minister of Intelligence Ismail Khatib announced that IR International had been declared a terrorist organization by the Islamic Republic , accused by the government of inciting riots protesting the regime. News sources have reported that the Persian government is waging an “intimidation campaign” against personnel of the TV station, freezing their assets, interrogating their relatives and “threatening to snatch them from British streets if they do not quit their jobs”.