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.
Dozens of people who celebrated Norouz in Iran's Kurdistan Province have been detained. Rights groups say the measures are an example of how the authorities are restricting the cultural rights of ethnic minorities in the Islamic republic.
Four decades after the consumption and sale of alcohol was banned in Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the market for illegal wine and other alcoholic drinks is thriving. Many of the wine producers in the capital, Tehran, are women who say they live in fear of being caught.
A British-Iranian woman released from a prison in Tehran last week has appealed for the release of another prisoner, Morad Tahbaz, whose family says is now on a hunger strike after being left out of the deal that brought her and another dual national home.
A hacktivist group has released new video footage revealing overcrowded conditions in a notorious Tehran prison. Previous videos from the facility published by the group Ali's Justice led to the suspension of prison staff and calls from lawmakers to punish those responsible for leaking the footage.
Video provided exclusively to RFE/RL's Radio Farda by the Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) hacktivist group is said to show extreme overcrowding at Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
Two British-Iranians who have been held in Iran for years have left the country as Tehran and London settled a long-standing debt owed to Iran.
An Iranian mathematician and philosophy lecturer has rejected his award for the country's book of the year "in protest at censorship" in Iran.
A British-Iranian mother who has been held in Iran since 2016 has had her British passport returned, raising hopes a negotiating team will be able to secure her full release.
During a briefing in Tehran to discuss the Kremlin's position in the ongoing nuclear talks, Moscow's ambassador to Iran took umbrage to a question about Russia's war in Ukraine. Levan Dzhagaryan scolded the journalists, reminding them that they should use Russia's preferred terminology.
Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi says she refuses to return to prison to continue her sentence despite receiving a summons by authorities.
Internet outages have been reported across Tehran after a fire at a telecommunications building.
Negotiators at talks to revive Iran's nuclear deal were cautiously optimistic that the parties were moving toward an agreement, with the head of the UN's atomic energy agency set to travel to Tehran this weekend.
A leaked conversation between top Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps officials has shed light on corruption and infighting within the force, and caused a political firestorm in Tehran. Following its publication by RFE/RL's Radio Farda, even the supreme leader has reacted angrily to the implications.
Iran's foreign minister says an agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear deal is "at hand," referring to forward momentum at negotiations in Vienna.
A confidential IRGC document leaked to RFE/RL's Radio Farda warns that discontent has increased significantly in Iran and society is in a state of "explosion."
An Iranian state television streaming website has acknowledged suffering "technical issues" as a dissident hacker group that calls itself Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) said it had played an anti-government message on the platform.
Hundreds of teachers are protesting across Iran to demand a fair pay, adjustment of pensions, and the release of their detained colleagues.
Hackers gained access to several Iranian state television channels and broadcast pictures of an exiled dissident group, as well as a message saying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should be executed.
Iranian police say they have arrested 17 people suspected of filming candid-camera pranks that boosted their social-media followings but incited panic in the streets of Tehran.
A group of Iranian shareholders who have suffered losses in recent months have held a protest outside the parliament building in Tehran saying that government policies led to a decline in stock prices.
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