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.
Kurdish traders known as Kulbars make the hazardous journey from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan, earning just enough money to survive. Some have fallen to their deaths. More have been killed by Iranian border guards, with 52 killed in 2021, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
The prices of some drugs in Iran have soared amid plans by the government to eliminate a major medical subsidy. Pharmacists and residents say the cost of some drugs has increased fivefold. Iranians fear that the removal of the subsidy will make it impossible for them to access life-saving medicines.
According to official Iranian statistics, there was a 32 percent increase in girls marrying between the ages of 10 and 14 in Iran in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same quarter in 2020. Here, two women who married as children talk about the toll that marrying young has had upon them.
Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi and photojournalist Alieh Motalebzadeh have been sent back to prison after briefly allowing them out for medical reasons, family members and activists said.
Amnesty International has accused Iranian prison officials of committing "shocking" violations by "deliberately" denying sick prisoners "lifesaving healthcare" and refusing to investigate and ensure accountability for unlawful deaths in custody.
A stabbing attack at a revered shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad has claimed the life of a second Shiite cleric, state television reports.
Three clerics were stabbed by an unknown attacker at a religious shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, killing two, media reported on April 5.
An Iranian-U.S.-British environmentalist who was convicted in Iran on what rights groups say were bogus national security charges has ended a weeklong hunger strike to protest his reincarceration.
Dozens of people who celebrated Norouz in Iran's Kurdistan Province have been detained. Rights groups say the measures are an example of how the authorities are restricting the cultural rights of ethnic minorities in the Islamic republic.
Four decades after the consumption and sale of alcohol was banned in Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the market for illegal wine and other alcoholic drinks is thriving. Many of the wine producers in the capital, Tehran, are women who say they live in fear of being caught.
A British-Iranian woman released from a prison in Tehran last week has appealed for the release of another prisoner, Morad Tahbaz, whose family says is now on a hunger strike after being left out of the deal that brought her and another dual national home.
A hacktivist group has released new video footage revealing overcrowded conditions in a notorious Tehran prison. Previous videos from the facility published by the group Ali's Justice led to the suspension of prison staff and calls from lawmakers to punish those responsible for leaking the footage.
Video provided exclusively to RFE/RL's Radio Farda by the Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) hacktivist group is said to show extreme overcrowding at Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
Two British-Iranians who have been held in Iran for years have left the country as Tehran and London settled a long-standing debt owed to Iran.
An Iranian mathematician and philosophy lecturer has rejected his award for the country's book of the year "in protest at censorship" in Iran.
A British-Iranian mother who has been held in Iran since 2016 has had her British passport returned, raising hopes a negotiating team will be able to secure her full release.
During a briefing in Tehran to discuss the Kremlin's position in the ongoing nuclear talks, Moscow's ambassador to Iran took umbrage to a question about Russia's war in Ukraine. Levan Dzhagaryan scolded the journalists, reminding them that they should use Russia's preferred terminology.
Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi says she refuses to return to prison to continue her sentence despite receiving a summons by authorities.
Internet outages have been reported across Tehran after a fire at a telecommunications building.
Negotiators at talks to revive Iran's nuclear deal were cautiously optimistic that the parties were moving toward an agreement, with the head of the UN's atomic energy agency set to travel to Tehran this weekend.
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