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.
Iran has turned off two surveillance devices used by UN inspectors to monitor uranium enrichment, making it more difficult for inspectors to monitor Tehran's nuclear program.
Pensioners and retired government employees, some carrying bare tablecloths as a symbol of how little they have, took to the streets across Iran for a third consecutive day of protests to demand a pension increase.
The Norway-based Iran Human Rights watchdog says it has found evidence that 12 people convicted of murder or drug-related charges had their punishments meted out in a mass execution on June 6 in the southeast city Zahedan.
Water shortages in the Iranian province of Isfahan led to mass protests in November 2021 and a brutal government response. Farmers in the province now say the situation has not improved and accuse officials of gross mismanagement.
At least 17 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a train derailed near the central Iranian city of Tabas.
An Iranian appeals court has upheld the 16-year prison sentence of two elite Iranian students who were convicted of endangering national security, charges family and rights groups have decried as "ridiculous" and "fictional."
With the cost of living skyrocketing, struggling Iranian pensioners and retired government employees held protests in more than 16 cities across Iran on June 6-7.
Pensioners and retired government employees have continued protests in more than a dozen Iranian cities for a second day as they seek a hike in pensions to offset rising prices amid the country's growing economic woes.
The family of an Iranian dissident journalist says their son has been missing since the end of last month and is likely to have been abducted by Iranian agents in Turkey, where he had taken refuge.
Pensioners and retired government employees have staged protests in more than 16 cities across Iran to complain over their financial situation and pensions, which they say aren't enough to live on given the rising cost of living.
An Iranian opposition group says it has hacked more than 5,000 surveillance cameras in Tehran to coincide with the commemoration of the death of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Rights groups and activists have sharply criticized the Iranian government for its brutal crackdown on protesters who have taken to the streets in several cities following the deadly collapse of a residential building in the southern city of Abadan.
Tehran has threatened to punish Iranians who worked on the film Holy Spider, a movie inspired by the true story of an Iranian construction worker who killed 16 sex workers as part of an “Islamic cleansing of society.”
Iranian filmmakers who penned an open letter expressing support for antigovernment protesters and calling on security forces to show restraint have been threatened by authorities and forced to rescind their signatures.
The Writers' Association of Iran and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have expressed concern over the arrest of poet and journalist Arash Ghaleh-Golab during a protest over the recent collapse of a building in the Iranian port city of Abadan that left at least 39 people dead.
Videos and images published on social media show that a high concrete wall and security cameras are being constructed around an Iranian cemetery believed to hold the remains of victims of the Islamic republic's mass killing of political prisoners in 1988.
The death toll from the collapse of a residential building in the Iranian port city of Abadan has reached 37 as demonstrators continued to protest what they see as widespread negligence and corruption among officials.
Exiled Iranian actress Zar Amir-Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award at Cannes Film Festival for her role as a journalist in the film Holy Spider. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, she opened up about her struggles in exile and the importance of exposing problems in her homeland.
Protesters have again taken to the streets in several Iranian cities, with some shouting "Death to Khamenei," as the death toll in the collapse of a building in the city of Abadan rose to 34.
Iranians continue to vent their anger in southwestern Iran as the death toll in the collapse of a tower in the city of Abadan rose to 31 after the bodies of two more victims were found in the rubble.
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