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.
Reza Valizadeh, a dual US-Iranian citizen and former journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Farda, is marking two years behind bars in Iran.
Reza Valizadeh, a former journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Farda, has been incarcerated in Tehran's Evin prison for two years. The dual US-Iranian citizen is serving a 10-year sentence for “collaborating with a hostile government,” a conviction his supporters and press-freedom groups reject.
In an interview with RFE/RL, Asrin Mohammadi recalls how her brother was killed during the brutal state crackdown on the Women, Life, Freedom protests that began four years ago.
Four years after Mahsa Amini died following her detention over Iran’s mandatory hijab law, increasing numbers of Iranian women are not wearing head scarves. Amini's death sparked the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement. The defiance has grown amid mounting political and economic pressures.
Iran launched fresh missile attacks on Jordan, saying it was targeting a US military base in retaliation for strikes on Iranian oil tankers.
The family of 20-year-old Iranian twins Taraneh and Romina Rahimi says they have been tortured in prison and forced to confess to charges they deny. Relatives say Taraneh was sentenced to death and Romina to 25 years in prison in Isfahan, where they were jailed in connection with mass protests.
An Iranian-American citizen, Kamran Hekmati, has been released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, sources have told RFE/RL's Radio Farda, but he is unable to leave the country due to a travel ban.
An Iranian man was blinded by security forces during the mass nationwide Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022. He fled the country but then returned and has now been sentenced to death by hanging.
An Iranian court has sentenced a partially blinded protester to death after he returned to Iran. Ali Zarei was blinded in one eye when he was shot by security forces during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests.
A new draft bill designed to intensify online censorship and limit Internet access in Iran has been presented to lawmakers. Critics say the new proposed legislation mirrors an earlier bill that was abandoned after triggering controversy.
New US sanctions are creating new obstacles for Iranian students seeking to study abroad, disrupting access to English-language tests such as TOEFL and GRE.
Iran’s already battered economy is showing renewed signs of stress as Washington prepares to unveil what US officials have described as some of the toughest sanctions yet against Tehran.
An unauthorized Iranian film released for free on YouTube is openly challenging restrictions on women singing and Iran’s compulsory hijab rules. Bidad, or Outcry, directed by Soheil Beiraghi, was made without government OK and features Parastoo Ahmadi, a singer who was sentenced to 74 lashes.
Almost a month after two prominent Iranian graphic designers were detained by security forces, friends and relatives of the pair have issued a statement demanding public disclosure of the charges against them and immediate access to independent legal counsel.
Iran’s hardline-dominated parliament has approved the framework of a bill that criminalizes a range of interactions with "hostile" foreign media and other institutions with ties abroad as authorities look to curb what they consider foreign infiltration of the Islamic republic.
Iran has hanged two men accused of spying for Israel as the Islamic republic’s execution spree since the start of the war with the United States and Israel shows no signs of slowing down.
A hunger strike by death-row prisoners at Qezl-e-Hesar Prison has ended after Iranian authorities met with the striking inmates and promised a temporary halt to drug-related executions at the facility, according to the Iranian Human Rights organization (IHRNGO).
The US military said it launched dozens of strikes against targets linked to Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in response to Iranian attacks on American troops in Jordan after President Donald Trump had vowed to retaliate and "hit them very hard."
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces carried out a "heavy wave" of strikes against Iranian targets in what it described as a response to Tehran's attempted missile attacks on US forces in the Gulf.
Iranian writers, filmmakers, and other cultural figures have joined the outcry against a surge of executions in the country, using the hashtag "Do Not Execute" to criticize the continued use of the death penalty in a crackdown on political dissent from mass protests in January.
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