Babak Ghafooriazar is a broadcaster for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
A controversial new law to enforce the mandatory hijab has drawn the ire of the Iranian public and even senior clerics, who say it defeats its purpose. Activists have warned of protests if the law is not repealed.
The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has received a special jury award and a 12-minute ovation after his new film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Rasoulof spoke to RFE/RL at the festival about how he escaped Iran on foot through a secret mountainous route just weeks earlier.
Self-exiled Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof -- who had to escape his home country to be able to appear at the Cannes Film Festival -- told RFE/RL he has “mixed feelings” about the screening of his film and the attention he received during the famed event in France.
Iran's long-standing efforts to give workers two full days off have reached a milestone, with parliament approving a bill that would make Saturday an off day. But the campaign has faced backlash from clerics who argue that it threatens Iran's religious values.
Meghdad Jebelli, the brother of Iran's state TV chief Peyman Jebelli, spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Farda about his decision to leave Iran and seek asylum in Canada.
