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 has displayed what it described as two new ballistic and cruise missiles, in defiance to U.S. calls that Tehran halt its missile program.
Iran's Alborz Province has been hit by a spike in COVID-19 cases. Citizen journalists in the provincial capital, Karaj, have sent video to RFE/RL's Radio Farda and say authorities are not revealing the true scale of the pandemic.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled out negotiations with Washington over Tehran's ballistic missile and nuclear programs, calling the United States "Iran's main enemy."
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has launched underground ballistic missiles as part of a drill involving a fake U.S. aircraft carrier during military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, a day after the IRGC fired a missile from a helicopter targeting the same carrier.
Australia's government has warned Iranian authorities that they are responsible for the "safety and well-being" of a jailed British-Australian woman after she was moved to a prison outside Tehran.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a mock U.S. aircraft carrier during military exercises in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, local media reported.
A member of the National Security Committee of Iran’s parliament says a blast at the Natanz nuclear complex was caused by a “security breach.”
RFE/RL's Radio Farda spoke to members of Israel's Iranian Jewish community about their split identities and their struggles to build a new life.
Iranian protesters have gathered in the streets of Shiraz and Behbahan, chanting slogans against the country’s establishment.
Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi says she has been suffering from symptoms similar to those of COVID-19.
Two Swedish nationals have been arrested in Iran in a crackdown on an international drugs-trafficking network.
A powerful explosion at a medical clinic in northern Tehran has killed at least 19 people, Iranian media report.
Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian opposition journalist and activist whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, has been sentenced to death for his actions following what Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called a “grossly unfair” trial.
The United States has unveiled new sanctions against the Iranian metallurgical sector, blacklisting several companies, including domestic and foreign subsidiaries of the country's main steel producer.
Police in Tehran say three people have been arrested for attempting to sell newborn babies via the social-media site Instagram.
A fugitive Iranian judge facing possible extradition to his homeland on charges of corruption died at a hotel in Romania from a fall, a preliminary autopsy has concluded.
A prominent Iranian NGO that fights poverty says its founder and two other members have been detained.
A former Iranian judge sought by his homeland to face corruption charges has been found dead in Romania’s capital, officials say.
Iran has criticized a plan to put forward a resolution at a meeting of the UN's nuclear watchdog urging the country to allow inspectors access to two disputed sites.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has again pressed Iran to provide inspectors with access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material.
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