Golnaz Esfandiari is a senior correspondent with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She can be reached at EsfandiariG@rferl.org
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.
The Iranian government has delayed implementing parliament’s controversial legislation that ordered an immediate ramping up of the country’s uranium-enrichment program.
An Instagram page in French affiliated with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was suspended for several hours on October 30 following the Iranian leader’s message to French youth, in which he equated denying the Holocaust with perceived insults against Prophet Muhammad.
His two-term presidency (2005-2013) was marked by gross human rights violations, but in an often testy Skype interview with RFE/RL on September 16, Mahmud Ahmadinejad says he has no regrets though avoids answering some tough questions about his rule. (RFE/RL)
Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on a hunger strike in Tehran's Evin prison for more than three weeks to protest the risk that political prisoners in Iran face amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Amid a surge in the number of coronavirus infections, Iranian President Hassan Rohani says the mourning ceremonies of the Shi'ite month of Muharram will be held.
Sporadic street clashes and other protests have hit major cities in Iran since late July as Iranians express anger over economic woes that include rising prices and a sustained fall in the value of Iran's national currency. Here's what we know about the demonstrations.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Iran to halt all executions for drug-related offenses while the parliament discusses amendments to reform the country’s drug law.
The polls have closed in Iran in a four-man presidential race that could reinvigorate efforts for an economic and diplomatic thaw with the West or end a four-year interlude in hard-line domination of the government.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has hit out at his two main conservative challengers, who accuse him of mismanagement, corruption, and failing to improve the economy following a landmark 2015 nuclear accord with world powers.
