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.
Videos shared online on March 2 show the impact of missiles hitting Tehran on the third day of a military campaign against Iran by the United States and Israel. The Iranian Red Crescent Society put the death toll in Iran at more than 500 and said dozens more had been killed across the region.
As Iran reels from a US and Israeli bombing campaign that has killed several or perhaps even dozens of senior leaders, national security chief Ali Larijani has emerged as one of the key figures in what remains of the country's power structures.
RFE/RL spoke with a resident of the Iranian city of Sanandaj who described air strikes he said were carried out by Israel against military and security sites near residential areas. According to the witness, nearby homes were heavily damaged and civilians were injured.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran for decades. His supporters saw him as a wise leader, his critics as an authoritarian who led the Islamic republic into further international isolation. His latter years as supreme leader were marred by mass protests and a brutal crackdown that killed thousands.
Damage from Iranian counterstrikes that followed a joint US-Israeli air attack on February 28 has been reported in Israel, Bahrain, and Qatar. Blasts were heard in the Qatari capital, Doha, and smoke billowed over Bahrain hours after the air strikes on Iran.
Explosions witnessed in Tehran on February 28 were shortly followed by sirens sounding in Israel in the wake of US President Donald Trump's announcement of attacks on Iran. He called for Iranian citizens to keep off the streets, telling them "the hour of your freedom is at hand."
As Iranian and US diplomats concluded a third round of talks in Geneva, the imminent arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in Israel underscores the military brinkmanship shaping the standoff between Washington and Tehran.
Sina Haghshenas was upset about the cost of running his flower shop in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan. So he joined a protest on January 8 sparked by the economic crisis the country was facing. It was there that security forces fatally shot him, say Haghshenas's friends.
Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested while traveling through Iran on a motorcycle trip in 2025. This February, they were sentenced to 10 years in prison on espionage charges. Lindsay''s son, Joe Bennett, has called on the Iranian government to use the month of Ramadan to exercise mercy.
As university students in Iran continued their fifth day of protests in the wake of January's brutal crackdown, demonstrators insisted they will keep showing up in person on campus despite an effort to promote virtual classrooms.
University students across the Iranian capital turned out for a fourth day of renewed anti-government protests on February 24, following a brutal state crackdown in January. Thousands of people were killed last month in protests sparked by economic collapse and oppression in Iran.
Iran has arrested the bureau chief of Japan's public broadcaster, NHK World, and transferred him to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, two sources told RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Hundreds of Iranian students have held protests for a third straight day on at least six university campuses, demanding respect for human rights and calling for regime change. Some chanted "Women, life, freedom!" on February 23, while crowds at Al-Zahra University called for regime change.
Iranian students held anti-government protests at several universities for the third consecutive day, according to videos published online and verified by RFE/RL.
Iranian students faced off with security forces outside Tehran universities for the second day in a row, according to videos published online, in the biggest reported show of opposition in the capital since the deadly crackdown last month.
Iranian students chanting anti-government slogans faced off with security forces outside a Tehran university, according to social media videos and other reports.
Mitra Aqili said she saw the face of her sister, Aida, among the dead in a new video to emerge following Iran's deadly crackdown last month.
The Iranian and Russian navies have been conducting joint drills in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean as the United States issued new threats against Tehran.
With chants of "Death to Khamenei," directed at Iran's supreme leader, mourners in Iran were defiant as they gathered to mark 40 days since the deadly January 8-9 crackdown by security forces that killed thousands of protesters.
Across Iran, memorials to mark 40 days since thousands of protesters were killed in January have turned into anti-government demonstrations.
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