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.
Tehran has threatened to punish Iranians who worked on the film Holy Spider, a movie inspired by the true story of an Iranian construction worker who killed 16 sex workers as part of an “Islamic cleansing of society.”
Iranian filmmakers who penned an open letter expressing support for antigovernment protesters and calling on security forces to show restraint have been threatened by authorities and forced to rescind their signatures.
The Writers' Association of Iran and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have expressed concern over the arrest of poet and journalist Arash Ghaleh-Golab during a protest over the recent collapse of a building in the Iranian port city of Abadan that left at least 39 people dead.
Videos and images published on social media show that a high concrete wall and security cameras are being constructed around an Iranian cemetery believed to hold the remains of victims of the Islamic republic's mass killing of political prisoners in 1988.
The death toll from the collapse of a residential building in the Iranian port city of Abadan has reached 37 as demonstrators continued to protest what they see as widespread negligence and corruption among officials.
Exiled Iranian actress Zar Amir-Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award at Cannes Film Festival for her role as a journalist in the film Holy Spider. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, she opened up about her struggles in exile and the importance of exposing problems in her homeland.
Protesters have again taken to the streets in several Iranian cities, with some shouting "Death to Khamenei," as the death toll in the collapse of a building in the city of Abadan rose to 34.
Iranians continue to vent their anger in southwestern Iran as the death toll in the collapse of a tower in the city of Abadan rose to 31 after the bodies of two more victims were found in the rubble.
Gunmen shot dead a policeman and wounded his wife in Iran's restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, while two police officers were wounded in a separate shooting incident in Tehran, state media reported May 28.
Security forces fired in the air and used tear gas to disperse protesters in the southwestern city of Abadan, the capital of the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan, where the collapse of a high-rise building earlier this week killed 28 people, local media reported on May 28.
Canada Soccer has cancelled a friendly match between the men's national team and Iran next month following sharp criticism of the fixture.
Hundreds of residents in Abadan, the capital of the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan, took to the streets on May 26 for the second consecutive night to protest the deadly collapse of an unfinished building and demand justice.
With a dramatic rise in food prices, many Iranians have grown increasingly hopeless as they struggle to make ends meet.
Hundreds of residents took to the streets of Abadan, the capital of the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan, late on May 25, chanting slogans against the Iranian authorities.
Iran's Defense Ministry says an "accident" in the Parchin area near Tehran occurred at one of its research units, killing one person and injuring another.
Two Iranian Air Force pilots were killed when their F-7 fighter jet crashed during a training mission near the city of Naeen in central Iran.
At least five people were killed and 27 injured when parts of an unfinished 10-storey building in Iran's southern city of Abadan collapsed, trapping at least 80 more people under the rubble.
Human Rights Watch says the Iranian government has once again resorted to suppressing dissent and detaining protesters as it looks to quell discontent over rising prices and workers' rights and low wages.
Iranian authorities have been rocked by antigovernment protests demanding the end of the country's clerical regime amid skyrocketing inflation and subsidy cuts. Now they are trying to contain a strike by bus drivers in Tehran that threatens to bring unrest to the streets of the capital.
Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan is the most impoverished province in the country. Malnutrition is rife in the village of Mirabad, where people survive on subsistence farming and many children can't attend school because they don't have a birth certificate.
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