Parisa Sohbati is a digital video producer for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
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.
Did you know that in Iran, the weekend falls on Thursdays and Fridays? Now the Iranian parliament has just voted to shorten the workweek even further by eliminating Thursday office hours. While this change could improve work-life balance, it might also make international business more challenging.
U.S. experts say Iran is running a preelection disinformation campaign, using websites partially written by ChatGPT to sow discord in society. So what do these websites look like?
The leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran early on July 31 in a strike that Iran blamed on Israel. The attack came after Israel claimed it killed a senior commander of Hizballah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group. Do the two events point to a growing risk of a regional war?
