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.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has struck in northwestern Iran in the East Azerbaijan Province, killing at least five people, state media have reported.
Activists, cultural figures, and other prominent Iranians have mourned the death of Azam Taleghani, a women’s rights activist who fought repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, to become Iran’s female presidential candidate.
Iran has released four journalists and two activists on bail, including labor rights activist Sepideh Gholian nine months after she was arrested and a day following a call by Amnesty International (AI) for her release.
The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rohani has begun serving a five-year prison sentence for corruption claiming his case was based on an "illegal" wiretap.
A female Iranian journalist planning to attend today's World Cup soccer qualifier between Iran and Cambodia in Tehran says she feels "overwhelmed" and full of "joy" at being allowed to watch the match.
Iran has rejected a French call for the release of a detained Franco-Iranian researcher, describing it as "unacceptable” interference in Iran’s internal affairs.
A senior Iranian official says Tehran has foiled a plot by Israeli and Arab agencies to assassinate Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Iran's Guardians Council has adopted a legal amendment allowing Iranian women married to foreigners to pass on their nationality to their offspring.
An Iranian court has sentenced President Hassan Rohani's brother to five years in prison, a spokesman for the judiciary was quoted as saying on October 1 by the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Iran says it has received messages from Saudi Arabia through third countries at a time of strained relations between the two Persian Gulf states.
Iran has been suspended from international judo competitions because of its it boycott of Israeli athletes.
Iranian soccer fans and players paid tribute to a woman who died after challenging Iran's ban on female spectators.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has seized a ship in the Persian Gulf, accusing it of smuggling diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).
Iran has urged the United States to "put warmongers aside" following the departure of hard-line U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton, amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran in the wake of the unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.
A world-class Iranian archer is seeking asylum in Europe, the second athlete from Iran in recent weeks to refuse to return to his country.
Iran says it has freed seven crew members it detained after seizing the British tanker Stena Impero nearly two months ago.
Iran’s President Hassan Rohani has ruled out bilateral talks with the United States, though the removal of sanctions against it would allow for multilateral talks including those who signed a nuclear accord in 2015.
Iran has confirmed an explosion at one of its launch pads after satellite photos showed the blast last week, saying it was due to a technical malfunction.
Iran has warned Europe it needs to offer new terms before a deadline set for later this week or Tehran will "take a strong step" away from the nuclear accord it signed with world powers in 2015.
An Iranian-flagged oil tanker that has been pursued by the United States in the Mediterranean Sea for weeks has changed course once again, with questions remaining as to its true destination.
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