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.
The father of jailed Iranian activist Behnam Mousivand says his son has ended a 16-day hunger strike to protest his brutal treatment by prison guards after his state of health seriously deteriorated.
A Swedish-Iranian citizen sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israel is to be executed on May 21, Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency said on May 4.
An anonymous member of Ali's Justice spoke to RFE/RL about the group hacking into Iranian organizations to reveal "dark secrets" of the theocratic regime.
Tehran says it summoned Sweden's ambassador over "baseless and false allegations" made against a former Iranian official, Hamid Nouri, at a trial relating to the mass killings ordered by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1988.
An Asiatic cheetah gave birth to three cubs in Iran, the head of the environment department said on May 1, calling it a first in captivity for the endangered species.
Teachers have held protests in several Iranian cities on May Day, which coincided with Teachers’ Day in Iran.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Iran to release a U.S. citizen he said had been held for years as a "political pawn."
A fifth round of talks has been held between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, Iranian media reported.
When Iranian women recently tried to enter a soccer match between Iran and Lebanon in Mashhad on March 29, they were violently beaten by guards at the stadium, despite holding tickets. The decision to again exclude female fans has caused widespread anger in Iran.
Teachers have taken to the streets of several cities in Iran, including the capital, Tehran, to demand fair wages, better working conditions, and the release of their jailed colleagues.
Iran's parliament recently took steps to again allow foreign auto imports to meet high consumer demand amid concerns over the quality and safety of domestically made vehicles. But the measure was left out of the country's annual budget, stalling the initiative and leaving car buyers in limbo.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on April 15 that they had seized a foreign ship in Persian Gulf waters loaded with what they described as smuggled diesel, the government news agency IRNA reported.
Kurdish traders known as Kulbars make the hazardous journey from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan, earning just enough money to survive. Some have fallen to their deaths. More have been killed by Iranian border guards, with 52 killed in 2021, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
The prices of some drugs in Iran have soared amid plans by the government to eliminate a major medical subsidy. Pharmacists and residents say the cost of some drugs has increased fivefold. Iranians fear that the removal of the subsidy will make it impossible for them to access life-saving medicines.
According to official Iranian statistics, there was a 32 percent increase in girls marrying between the ages of 10 and 14 in Iran in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same quarter in 2020. Here, two women who married as children talk about the toll that marrying young has had upon them.
Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi and photojournalist Alieh Motalebzadeh have been sent back to prison after briefly allowing them out for medical reasons, family members and activists said.
Amnesty International has accused Iranian prison officials of committing "shocking" violations by "deliberately" denying sick prisoners "lifesaving healthcare" and refusing to investigate and ensure accountability for unlawful deaths in custody.
A stabbing attack at a revered shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad has claimed the life of a second Shiite cleric, state television reports.
Three clerics were stabbed by an unknown attacker at a religious shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, killing two, media reported on April 5.
An Iranian-U.S.-British environmentalist who was convicted in Iran on what rights groups say were bogus national security charges has ended a weeklong hunger strike to protest his reincarceration.
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