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's supreme leader has called on Palestinians to continue their uprising against Israel, suggesting the Israeli government was a "cancerous tumor."
Iranian authorities have again extended the temporary release of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her family and her lawyer say.
Authorities in Kosovo have announced the first two cases of novel-coronavirus infection to hit Europe's newest independent state just as global health experts say the continent has become COVID-19's new "epicenter."
Amnesty International says it has evidence that at least 23 children were killed by Iranian security forces when they “unlawfully used lethal force to crush” nationwide anti-government protests in November 2019.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged Iranians to support the government in its battle against an outbreak of the coronavirus as the death toll rose to 77, the highest outside of China.
Initial results in Iran’s parliamentary elections showed conservatives were leading and on course to win a majority of seats. With concerns about the coronavirus and the disqualification of thousands of moderate candidates, turnout for the February 21 vote appeared to be low in Tehran and other cities.
Iran says a German held in Iran has been released after a detained Iranian accused of violating U.S. sanctions had returned home from Germany.
Iranians will vote in the first round of parliamentary elections on February 21, but their choices of candidates have been narrowed by a secretive body handpicked by the country's supreme leader.
President Hassan Rohani says Iran will never hold talks with the United States under pressure or from a position of weakness, adding that Tehran's help was needed in establishing stability in the Middle East.
A woman has died in Tehran of a suspected coronavirus infection, an Iranian state newspaper reports.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) says it has arrested and charged three members of an Iranian secessionist movement on suspicion of spying for Saudi Arabia in Denmark.
An Iranian official says his country will stop sharing with Kyiv evidence from the crash of a Ukrainian airliner shot down near Tehran last month after audio from the investigation showing the authorities were aware immediately that a missile may have downed the plane was leaked by Ukrainian media.
Baha'is in Iran are not able to apply for new identification cards without renouncing their faith. The application doesn't allow them to declare themselves "Baha'i" or as members of "other religions."
An Iranian passenger airliner ended up on a highway after reportedly skidding off the runway during a hard landing in southwestern Iran.
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to warn Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be "very careful with his words" after the Iranian called the U.S. leader a “clown” during a Tehran sermon.
Iranian teams have been banned from playing international matches on Iranian soil, the Islamic republic's football federation said on January 17.
There have been fresh protests in Tehran more than three days after the Iranian authorities admitted they accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner on January 8, killing 176 people. Meanwhile, in a televised speech, Iranian President Hassan Rohani called for a special court to be set up to investigate the tragedy and promised that those responsible would pay. Social-media videos were vetted by RFE/RL's Radio Farda, but their authenticity could not be independently verified.
New security camera footage posted online shows two Iranian missiles struck a Ukrainian passenger airliner after takeoff from Tehran on January 8.
Protests have continued in Tehran after Iranian authorities admitted they accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner on January 8, killing 176 people. Protesters say video posted on social media shows police using live ammunition and tear gas. Tehran's police chief later denied his officers had opened fire. These social-media videos were vetted by AP and RFE/RL's Radio Farda, but their authenticity could not be independently verified.
Iranians are expressing outrage at their government for "lying" to them for three days about shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, which killed all 176 people on board.
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