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 said on July 13 that it is holding talks on prisoner exchanges with the United States, a few days after a U.S. official said Washington was working to release its detained citizens.
A loud blast was heard in northern Tehran early on July 10 after an "unknown object" exploded in a park, Iran's state-controlled television reported.
Iran has announced it is reimposing coronavirus restrictions on major cities, as the spread of the highly contagious delta variant spurs fears of another surge in the country.
The speaker of Iran's parliament said Tehran will never hand over images from inside some Iranian nuclear sites to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a monitoring agreement with the agency had expired.
The United States has seized more than three dozen Iranian state-linked news website domains it accused of spreading disinformation.
Iran's atomic energy body says the country’s sole nuclear power plant has been temporarily shut down over a "technical fault."
Iranian election officials have announced that hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi has beat out a narrow field of mostly conservative candidates to win Iran's presidential election with nearly 62 percent of the vote.
RFE/RL's Radio Farda received several videos that purported to show polling stations in Tehran and other cities on June 18 where only a few people could be seen. The authenticity of the clips could not be verified.
With prominent moderate, reform, and female candidates disqualified from running in the June 18 presidential vote, many Iranians say they plan to stay away from the polls.
Crippling U.S. sanctions, government mismanagement, and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused widespread hardships in Iran and made the economy the number one issue in the country's June 18 presidential vote.
Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric linked to the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in the 1980s, is considered the front-runner in Iran's June 18 presidential election.
Iran says ongoing talks on reaching a "common understanding" with regional rival Saudi Arabia are taking place in a “good atmosphere.”
The International Federation of Journalists has condemned Iran's use of the judiciary to harass and prosecute journalists for "simply doing their job" and warned of increased harassment of media workers ahead of a presidential election next month.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has announced a four-month ban on all cryptocurrency mining in response to unplanned power cuts that have hit major Iranian cities.
The alleged drugging and dismemberment of a 47-year-old filmmaker by his parents appalled the country. Then they reportedly confessed to also killing a daughter and son-in-law.
An Iranian hard-line constitutional watchdog has approved seven candidates to run in next month's presidential election, leaving out several high-profile hopefuls allied to outgoing President Hassan Rohani.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani says the broad outline of a deal to end major sanctions on his country has been reached during talks with world powers aimed at restoring a 2015 troubled nuclear deal, but some difficult issues remain.
Former Iranian hard-line President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has registered his candidature for a third term in office in next month’s election.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging the Iranian parliament to reject a bill that it says would "help further erode Iran's increasingly vulnerable press freedom" ahead of next month's presidential election.
A 20-year-old Iranian man has reportedly been killed -- perhaps beheaded -- by family members in the country's southwest because of his sexual orientation.
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