RFE/RL's Radio Farda breaks through government censorship to deliver accurate news and provide a platform for informed discussion and debate to audiences in Iran.
Since protests erupted on December 28, a lockdown has upended life across Iran, with residents likening nighttime in major cities to outright martial law.
Iran said it is considering lifting its Internet blackout this week as details of a brutal crackdown on antiestablishment protests where thousands are reported dead continue to leak out of the country.
US President Donald Trump said it was time for new leaders to take control in Iran after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the country, presenting the Islamic republic with one of the most serious threats to its legitimacy since the 1979 revolution.
Iranian authorities have plunged the country into what witnesses describe as a near-total digital blackout in response to deadly nationwide protests against the Islamic republic, sharply limiting the flow of information from inside the country.
Thousands of Iranians have been killed and injured as authorities try to crush anti-government protests. An Iranian ophthalmologist who spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Farda said hospitals are struggling to treat the wounded and doctors have been overwhelmed by the number of eye injuries in particular.
Security forces are reportedly maintaining a heavy presence on the streets in parts of Iran as more than two weeks of protests ease following a brutal crackdown that has left thousands of Iranians dead and an ongoing Internet blackout.
A newly released video shows a huge crowd attending the funeral in Abdanan of Alireza Seydi, a teenager who was killed during anti-government protests in Tehran. Seydi is one of thousands of victims of Iranian authorities' crackdown on the protest movement.
Iranians leaving their country spoke to RFE/RL about the scale of the deadly crackdown on protests. The death toll is at more than 2,600 demonstrators, according to the US-based human rights monitor HRANA. But many groups fear the number is far higher.
Iran has stayed executions of protesters, President Donald Trump said quoting "very important sources on the other side," but tensions remained high across the Middle East as the possibility of US military action against Tehran remains.
Robina Aminian, a 23-year-old Kurdish woman studying fashion design in Tehran, is among thousands of victims who have died during an Iranian state crackdown on anti-government protesters. Her relatives say she was shot in the back of the head at close range.
RFE/RL has spoken to an Iranian woman who says every day she hears of a person killed amid the protest crackdown, including a pregnant bystander. The death toll is at more 2,400 protesters, according to the US-based human rights monitor HRANA. But many groups fear the number is far higher.
An Iranian journalist in the city of Karaj describes the atmosphere in the city after the brutal and unprecedented killing of protesters.
Iranian authorities continue to block access to the Internet as part of their brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests, one of the biggest challenges to clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, amid warnings from President Donald Trump that the United States may intervene.
At least 2,000 people have been killed in the protests in Iran, according to a US-based human rights group, HRANA, amid the deadly crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. One Iranian exile in Germany told RFE/RL that her family in Iran told her the number of victims could be much higher.
RFE/RL’s Radio Farda interviewed a doctor inside Iran about the deadly state crackdown on antiestablishment protesters.
US President Donald Trump has told protesters in Iran that "help is on the way," as the death toll after more than two weeks of anti-government protests continues to increase, sparking a global outcry.
US President Donald Trump said Washington may intervene as the deadly crackdown on protests continued in Iran. Tehran says it is ready to hold talks but is also "fully prepared for war," while experts say a US response could include military and economic measures.
US military action against Iran appears to be back on the policy agenda in Washington amid the increasingly deadly crackdown on protesters in cities and towns across the country.
Videos show funeral processions in Tehran for those killed during recent protests, as families chant slogans against Iran's supreme leader. Human rights groups say hundreds have been killed in a crackdown by security forces amid a digital blackout.
US President Donald Trump said the Iranian leadership called to seek talks with Washington in the face of his threats of military action in response to Tehran's brutal crackdown of mass anti-government protesters.
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