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26/02/2021

Radio Farda English is going to relaunch soon, making our unique reporting on Iranian politics and society even more accessible.Until then, we encourage you to follow our reporting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s reporting on Iran in English here. Follow Radio Farda's reporting in Persian...

Radio Farda English is going to relaunch soon, making our unique reporting on Iranian politics and society even more accessible. Until then, we encourage you to follow our reporting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s reporting on Iran in English here. Follow Radio Farda's reporting in Persian...

27/01/2021

The U.S. military says it flew a B-52 bomber over the Persian Gulf in a show of force "to deter potential aggression" amid fears that heightened tensions with Iran could result in attacks on U.S. or allied targets in the region.

26/01/2021

The Iranian monthly Peivast is reporting that Iran has blocked the private encrypted messaging application Signal, ordering mobile operators to filter it from their networks.

26/01/2021

Reports from Iran say a wrestler has been executed on charges of homicide.

26/01/2021

Iran has sentenced the brother of First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri to two years in prison on finance-related charges.

26/01/2021

Moscow has joined Tehran in calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to lift crippling economic sanctions on Iran if he wants to save a multination deal aimed at keeping the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program in check.

26/01/2021

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's website has published a series of exclusive interviews with seven top-ranking officials in Iran. Published from January 11 to January 18, and titled "Decisive Word," the interviews reflect attitudes of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and two...

25/01/2021

Indonesia says it has seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian vessel suspected of illegally transferring oil in the Southeast Asian nation's waters.

20/01/2021

Tehran has accused Washington of "hostage taking" after an Iranian political scientist was arrested in the United States and accused of being an agent of Iran's government.

20/01/2021

President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of state nominee said the incoming administration would seek a “longer and stronger” nuclear agreement with Iran as he laid out a foreign policy vision for the next four years.

19/01/2021

The U.S. Justice Department has filed charges against an Iranian political scientist accused of being an agent for Iran’s government.

19/01/2021

This is how Azamat Ajdari, sister of Ghanimat, one of the victims of the UIA's doomed flight 757, expands on the tragedy.

19/01/2021

Iranian authorities have convicted an American-Iranian businessman on spying charges, U.S. media have reported, in a recently revealed case which comes amid high tensions between the two countries.

18/01/2021

A media watchdog has called on Turkey to halt the expulsion of an Iranian journalist sentenced to prison for alleged activities against the regime after criticizing Tehran's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

17/01/2021

France’s foreign minister says Iran's continued breaches of the nuclear agreement it reached with world powers have made it urgent that Tehran and Washington return to the deal.

17/01/2021

In Iran, car prices have decreased after the Iranian national currency, the rial, slightly gained some of its lost value against the dollar.

16/01/2021

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has conducted the second and last phase of a drill launching anti-warship ballistic missiles at a simulated target in the Indian Ocean, state television reported.

16/01/2021

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Wendy Sherman, the country’s lead negotiator of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, to be the No. 2 official at the State Department.

16/01/2021

The latest arrests were made on Wednesday morning in Selin's village in Oraman, during which the agents of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' (IRGC) Intelligence Organization detained Akram and Siamak Advaei.

16/01/2021

Iran has ordered the removal of the private encrypted messengering application Signal from local application stores after it reportedly was deemed "criminal content" by the Islamic republic’s filtering committee.

15/01/2021

Iranian forces have held military exercises involving ballistic missiles amid heightened tensions over the country's nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against Tehran.

15/01/2021

The United States has sanctioned companies in Iran, China, and the United Arab Emirates for trading in steel with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.

15/01/2021

According to the report, a court had previously sentenced Mr. Sharqi to ten years in prison for "espionage and military intelligence gathering." He was released on bail and "intended to flee Iran" before the appeals court, the YJC reported.

14/01/2021

"Deep in my heart, I longed for the lie to continue. Alas, it did not. After three days full of lies, the truth hit us like lightning."

14/01/2021

In the last forty years, nearly thirty people, whose main occupation was journalism or writing, have lost their lives in several ways, from being shot, hanged, murdered in prison, and assassinated at home or on the street.

13/01/2021

The United States has slapped sanctions on two Iranian foundations controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and their subsidies, stating that they enabled Iran's rulers to maintain a "corrupt" system of ownership over large parts of the economy.

13/01/2021

Siavash Ghafouri Azar and Sara Mamani were both graduates of Concordia University in Canada. They had traveled to Iran to celebrate their wedding with their relatives but never returned to Canada.

12/01/2021

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo charged on January 12 that Al-Qaeda has established a new home base in Iran.

11/01/2021

Hamed Esmaeeilion, an Iranian-Canadian who works as a dentist in Toronto, has spent the past year grappling with the tragic deaths of his wife Parisa, 42, and daughter Reera, 9, in the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 on January 8, 2020, outside Tehran.Radio Farda: On the...

Hamed Esmaeeilion, an Iranian-Canadian who works as a dentist in Toronto, has spent the past year grappling with the tragic deaths of his wife Parisa, 42, and daughter Reera, 9, in the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 on January 8, 2020, outside Tehran. Radio Farda: On the...

11/01/2021

A top South Korean diplomat was in Iran on January 10 to negotiate the release of a vessel and its crew seized by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf amid a deepening financial dispute.

09/01/2021

One year after the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iranian airspace, five countries whose citizens were killed in the crash are “urgently” calling on Tehran to fully disclose how the tragedy occurred, deliver justice, and make reparations, as the families of the victims seek justice and answers to a tragedy that killed 176 people.

One year after the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iranian airspace, five countries whose citizens were killed in the crash are “urgently” calling on Tehran to fully disclose how the tragedy occurred, deliver justice, and make reparations.

09/01/2021

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the country is in no hurry to see the United States return to an international nuclear deal with major powers after President-elect Joe Biden takes office this month.

08/01/2021

The Trump administration considered the deal as “one-sided” and “flawed” and sought the freedom to negotiate a "better deal" with Tehran while resuming their maximum pressure campaign on Iran.

08/01/2021

Speaking to Radio Farda, Hamed Esmaeelioun, 43, recounts the untold details of the moments that collapsed like a terrible nightmare on the lives of the survivors of the flight victims.

07/01/2021

Yenin, who is in charge of following up on the tragic case, asked that Tehran announce the real reasons behind targeting the plane with two deadly missiles.

07/01/2021

In August 2017, Abdul Hamid wrote a letter to Khamenei urging him to end discrimination and inequality against Sunnis in Iran.

06/01/2021

Referring to the increasing robbery cases in Iran, a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly's presidium has called for issuing verdicts to amputate petty thieves' hands.

06/01/2021

The United States has blacklisted 16 companies and an individual linked to Iran's metals industry as part of continued efforts by the outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to deprive the country of revenue.

06/01/2021

Ayatollah Mahmoud Amjada member of the seminary in Qom, , warned on his Instagram page on Monday, January 4, that he intends to rise against the "corrupt" seminary and "the ungodly turbaned heads who have no conscience."