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.
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.
Thousands of Iranians have been killed and injured as authorities try to crush anti-government protests. An Iranian ophthalmologist who spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Farda said hospitals are struggling to treat the wounded and doctors have been overwhelmed by the number of eye injuries in particular.
Security forces are reportedly maintaining a heavy presence on the streets in parts of Iran as more than two weeks of protests ease following a brutal crackdown that has left thousands of Iranians dead and an ongoing Internet blackout.
A newly released video shows a huge crowd attending the funeral in Abdanan of Alireza Seydi, a teenager who was killed during anti-government protests in Tehran. Seydi is one of thousands of victims of Iranian authorities' crackdown on the protest movement.
Iranians leaving their country spoke to RFE/RL about the scale of the deadly crackdown on protests. The death toll is at more than 2,600 demonstrators, according to the US-based human rights monitor HRANA. But many groups fear the number is far higher.
Iran has stayed executions of protesters, President Donald Trump said quoting "very important sources on the other side," but tensions remained high across the Middle East as the possibility of US military action against Tehran remains.
Robina Aminian, a 23-year-old Kurdish woman studying fashion design in Tehran, is among thousands of victims who have died during an Iranian state crackdown on anti-government protesters. Her relatives say she was shot in the back of the head at close range.
RFE/RL has spoken to an Iranian woman who says every day she hears of a person killed amid the protest crackdown, including a pregnant bystander. The death toll is at more 2,400 protesters, according to the US-based human rights monitor HRANA. But many groups fear the number is far higher.
An Iranian journalist in the city of Karaj describes the atmosphere in the city after the brutal and unprecedented killing of protesters.
Iranian authorities continue to block access to the Internet as part of their brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests, one of the biggest challenges to clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, amid warnings from President Donald Trump that the United States may intervene.
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