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.
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.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani says the United States is seeking regime change in Tehran.
The Iranian parliament has approved a bill aimed at bringing Iran's laws in line with international standards and allowing the country to join the UN convention against the funding of terrorism, or CFT.
France says it has frozen the assets of Iran's Ministry of Security and Intelligence, as well as of two Iranian men thought to be members of the country’s intelligence service.
Special courts set up in Iran to deal with financial crimes have sentenced three people to death, local media reported, as the country faces renewed U.S. sanctions and public outcry against corruption.
At least 27 people have died in four Iranian provinces after drinking bootleg alcohol, the national emergency services say.
U.S. and United Nations officials have condemned the attack on a military parade in southwestern Iran that state media said killed at least 25 people and wounded 60, an assault the country's supreme leader and the president blamed on "puppets" of the United States.
At least 21 people died and 20 others were injured after a bus and a fuel tanker collided in central Iran, officials say.
A group of anarchists has attacked the Iranian Embassy in Athens to protest Tehran's treatment of its Kurdish population, Greek authorities say.
Iran has accused police in Paris of failing to respond quickly to what it called an attack against its embassy in the French capital by Kurdish activists.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the United States and Israel of waging a "media war" to discourage Iranians, as the country faces economic hardship following the reimposition of nuclear sanctions by the United States.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has declared that Israel "will try to destroy any Iranian military presence on the territory of Syria." He has also said he hopes that "reasonable people will take the power in Iran." Lieberman spoke on September 4 in Tel Aviv to RFE/RL's Radio Farda and Current Time -- a Russian-language digital network produced by RFE/RL in cooperation with Voice of America.
Israel's defense chief has warned that his country will seek to "destroy any Iranian military presence" in Syria, where Tehran has intervened to prop up its ally President Bashar al-Assad in a war that has lasted more than seven-years.
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