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.
According to Iranian state media, President Hassan Rohani has inaugurated a new domestically built submarine armed with cruise missiles, amid heightened tensions with the United States.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a meeting on the Middle East in Warsaw was "historic" because it brought Israelis and Arabs together to talk about the threat posed by Iran. He spoke on February 14 at the meeting in Poland in an interview with Niusha Boghrati of RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has rejected as "outrageous" Iranian claims that the United States and its regional allies are to blame for a suicide bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 27 members of the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says claims by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that the United States was behind a bombing in Iran are “outrageous.” In an interview with RFE/RL, he denied U.S. involvement in the attack that killed 27 Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps members.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has blamed the United States and its regional allies for a suicide bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 27 members of the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Rudy Giuliani, a personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, said: “I believe there has to be an overthrow of this regime.” In an interview with RFE/RL ‘s Persian-language service Radio Farda Giuliani said he was speaking in his personal capacity. (RFE/RL's Radio Farda)
The son of the Iran's last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, says Iranian society is close to a "flash point" like it was before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and that the government in Tehran is near collapse.
A fire at the Iranian Space Research Center has killed three scientists, a top Iranian official has announced.
Eight Iranian environmentalists accused of spying appeared in a Tehran court on January 30 for a closed-door trial, local media report.
The U.S. State Department says its coordinator for counterterrorism is traveling to the three Scandinavian countries this week to discuss matters including “Iran-backed terrorism” in Europe.
The lawyer for Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi says the Australian-based academic has been released by Tehran, which held her for more than a month on charges of trying to "infiltrate" Iranian institutions.
An Iranian lawmaker says Tehran’s foreign policy has "a lot of unnecessary costs" which can "leave us paralyzed on the streets of Tehran."
University students have been protesting in the streets of Tehran for three days to demand that those responsible for a deadly bus crash be held accountable. Ten students died on December 25 in an accident involving a university bus that was known to be unsafe.
An Iranian political activist jailed for his messages on social media has died after spending 50 days on hunger strike, his family says.
Iranian state television says the number of people injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck western Iran near the border with Iraq has risen to more than 600.
Iran has executed two men convicted of illegal currency trading as Tehran steps up its crackdown on alleged financial crimes in the face of economic hardships heightened by U.S. financial sanctions.
The Tehran city council has elected a little-known technocrat to the politically sensitive post of mayor, Iranian state media report.
Hundreds of Iranian women have been allowed to attend the Asia Champions League final in Tehran.
Denmark has accused Iran of plotting to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition leader on the European Union member's territory and will discuss taking possible action against Tehran over the matter.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has called on Pakistan to tackle suspected militants who kidnapped 14 members of Iranian security forces on October 16 on their shared border.
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