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.
Iranian media reports say President Hassan Rohani has nominated three candidates for cabinet posts to replace nominees who were rejected by the parliament.
The European Union says Iran made a "very useful" presentation on October 15 in Geneva on how to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program.
Prominent Iranian reform journalist Issa Saharkhiz has been released from jail, according to his son.
Iran's Guardians Council is reviewing amendments to the country's marriage law that specifies the rights of parents to marry their adoptive children.
The sister of a former U.S. marine imprisoned in Iran is trying to meet the Iranian president during his trip to New York to participate in the annual UN General Assembly meeting.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has announced the Foreign Ministry will lead nuclear talks with world powers.
A video has surfaced that shows former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani clearly blaming Damascus for chemical attacks, despite the Iranian government's claim that the media had wrongly reported his remarks.
Listeners from across Iran have been contacting RFE/RL's Radio Farda in response to news of a chemical weapons attack in neighboring Syria, which many international observers have blamed on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The wife of Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini says U.S. President Obama should call for the release of her husband, who has been jailed for his religious activities.
Iran's biggest private bank is reportedly claiming 500 million pounds ($780 million) from Britain's Treasury.
Two fresh opinion polls show Hassan Rohani, the candidate on whom many pro-reform elements in Iran are pinning their hopes, in a virtual tie with conservative candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf ahead of this week's presidential election.
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was expected to address a large gathering at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, which can seat more than 100,000 people.
Iranian parliamentary deputy speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar has publicly announced his intention to run for president.
Protesters in the Iranian town of Varzaneh clashed with police this week after more than a month of demonstrations against the government's diversion of water from central Isfahan Province to other regions.
Iranian authorities reportedly detained two daughters of opposition figure and former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Musavi and held the eldest son of fellow oppositionist
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has expressed concern over a recent wave of arrests of journalists in Iran.
The raids are described as the largest operation targeting relatively independent Iranian media outlets since 2009.
Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani has dismissed concerns over the election reform bill that was adopted on December 2.
Iranian lawmakers have opened discussions on whether to reform the country's election laws.
Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been allowed to see her children in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for the first time in weeks.
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