Hannah Kaviani is a journalist with RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Shortly before Israel launched its ground operation into southern Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video message to the people of Iran.Netanyahu's latest video was met with both worry and support on Persian-language social media.
Siamak Namazi was the longest-held Iranian-American prisoner in Iran until his release along with four other Americans last year in a controversial prisoner exchange.
The assassination of designated terrorist leader, Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, in Tehran has shocked Iran and its regional allies. Iran has blamed Israel and vowed vengeance, though Israel has not claimed the attack. Analysts say Iran and its allies are unlikely to let the assassination go unanswered.
Prominent Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani has been detained by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) after attempting to post her work on a wall near the presidential palace in Tehran, multiple sources in Iran have told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
The Iranian authorities continue to face protests over the treatment of women in the country. This animated account tells the story of one anonymous woman who joined the protest movement after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September 2022.
The Iranian authorities are purging the ranks of university professors as the anniversary of mass nationwide protests approaches. Those in the firing line say they are being falsely accused of "encouraging students" to violate the hijab law, demonstrate, and chant antiestablishment slogans.
Zaniar Abubakri and his family were ecstatic when he and his fiancee announced their engagement one year ago. But after being cut down by gunfire during street protests in Iran last year, Abubakri's legacy as the "Groom of Mahabad" is one of remembrance that the authorities are attempting to erase.
For the first time in decades, Iran was not represented by its foreign minister at the annual Munich Security Conference.
A German MP in the European Parliament said it is significant that for the first time Iran is not represented by its foreign minister at the Munich Security Conference but by other political figures who have a different vision for the future of Iran.
The EU mulls adding Iran’s IRGC to its terror list as the rial plunges to new lows and Tehran holds a controversial women’s conference.
The Biden administration's envoy to Iran says a deal to revive a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is not dead, but Washington is skeptical Tehran is "prepared or able" to reach an agreement after it backed away from "a golden opportunity" in September to finalize an accord.
Robert Malley, the U.S. special envoy to Iran, told RFE/RL's Radio Farda in an interview on December 22 that the nuclear deal with Iran is not dead.
Iran executes two antiestablishment protesters, Tehran summons the Chinese ambassador over a row over three disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, and Iran's Foreign Ministry puts sanctions on RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Iran has apparently disbanded the notorious morality police, members of an Iranian theater group were detained after releasing a protest video, and anti-establishment protesters staged a three-day general strike.
Top U.S. officials have met with representatives of technology companies to encourage them to work on ways to facilitate Internet access in Iran after a licensing change freed up the use of software and other technology used to circumvent Internet blockages.
Protests are continuing across Iran as discontent grows over the government's failure to address deteriorating economic conditions one year after President Ebrahim Raisi's election victory.
The killing of an IRGC colonel is the most high-profile inside Iran since the November 2020 assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist.
A former U.S. diplomat held hostage in Tehran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution is going on a hunger strike in Vienna, the venue of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers. Barry Rosen, 77, is pushing for the release of dozens of dual citizens held by the Islamic republic.
The hunger-striking husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman held in Iran for five years, says the British government is not doing enough to secure his wife’s release.
A jailed Iranian lawyer who has represented high-profile political prisoners was sent to a psychiatric hospital where he was drugged with unknown substances and subjected to electric shocks, his lawyer has revealed.
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