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.
Despite a country-wide Internet blackout, videos showing the extent of Iran's brutal crackdown on protests continue to trickle out. Iranians inside the country have told RFE/RL's Radio Farda how security forces engaged in mass shootings and arrested tens of thousands.
President Donald Trump has reiterated his call for Iran to "make a deal" over its nuclear program or face a "far worse attack" than the one aimed at the country last year when US and Israeli air strikes pummeled Iranian nuclear sites.
As Iran continues to restrict communications and Internet access, new evidence of the brutal state crackdown on nationwide protests is slowly emerging. One recently shared video shows protesters taking cover from gunfire as one person carries another to safety in Mashhad on January 8.
A US aircraft carrier group arrived in the Middle East on January 27 as tensions mount over a possible strike against Iran after a brutal crackdown on protests that rights groups say killed thousands of people.
Video footage has emerged on social media that appears to show a woman in Iran being kicked and beaten by security forces on January 8. More than 5,800 deaths in a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests have been verified, according to the US-based human rights agency HRANA.
US military deployments across the Middle East are fueling speculation that drills could mask preparations for a strike on Iran. While Washington insists no decision has been made, analysts point to asset positioning, rising tensions, and regional risks as signs of potential escalation.
Iran’s nationwide Internet blackout remained largely in place as the reported death toll from recent protests continued to rise, with one account saying the number of fatalities may exceed 30,000.
Iran's internet blackout continues, despite a temporary resurgence, says a digital rights watchdog, as a government-linked news agency claims the country's access to the internet will be restored by tonight.
Zahra Bahlolipour, a 23-year-old student in Tehran, was fatally shot by security forces during a protest against Iran's authoritarian regime on January 8. Her classmates have been posting tributes to a beloved friend known as Raha, one of more than 5,000 victims reported killed in the crackdown.
Images of bodies in the northern Iranian city of Rasht have emerged on social media following reports of a massacre by security forces during protests earlier this month. An exiled Iranian human rights attorney who spoke to witnesses said security forces fired at people trapped inside a bazaar.
US warships are heading toward Iran as Iranian officials defend a brutal suppression of anti-leadership protests that the United Nations is calling the deadliest crackdown by the Islamic republic on its people since it took power during the revolution in 1979.
The family and friends of Alireza Rahimi lit candles and played his favorite music on what would have been his birthday following weeks of deadly state crackdowns on protesters throughout Iran. Rahimi was killed, along with more than 4,900 others in Iran, according to human rights organizations.
In the industrial and residential suburbs of Iran's central Isfahan Province, three eyewitnesses have described scenes of extraordinary violence during the recent wave of anti-regime protests.
The United States says recent protests across Iran were the result of the regime's "mismanagement" and not foreign influences, as claimed by Tehran, as the death toll from a violent crackdown on the biggest threat to the Islamic republic in years continues to rise.
Iranians who protested their country's brutal regime earlier in January encountered security forces who wounded and killed many, they say. One group filmed a friend who had been badly wounded in the leg while a family of three were shot to death in their car, a relative told RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Newly emerging videos show Iranian security forces firing into crowds of protesters on January 8 and breaking into buildings and homes to arrest and beat people in the wake of countrywide mass protests. RFE/RL's Radio Farda spoke to the family of a protester killed in the crackdown.
Since protests erupted on December 28, a lockdown has upended life across Iran, with residents likening nighttime in major cities to outright martial law.
Iran said it is considering lifting its Internet blackout this week as details of a brutal crackdown on antiestablishment protests where thousands are reported dead continue to leak out of the country.
US President Donald Trump said it was time for new leaders to take control in Iran after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the country, presenting the Islamic republic with one of the most serious threats to its legitimacy since the 1979 revolution.
Iranian authorities have plunged the country into what witnesses describe as a near-total digital blackout in response to deadly nationwide protests against the Islamic republic, sharply limiting the flow of information from inside the country.
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