Newsletter رادیو فردا

Breaking News

Radio Farda

Produced by Radio Farda

July 03, 2020
Iran Bans Cosmetic Surgery Six Months After Coronavirus Pandemic Began

Iran's Mehr News Agency on Thursday reported that a Deputy Health Minister has sent a letter to the heads of state-run medical sciences universities to instruct them to halt cosmetic surgeries until further notice "due to the requirement to manage hospital beds
July 03, 2020
Iran To Compensate Ukrainian Plane Victims, Families Say Investigation First

Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said Iran has agreed to compensate the families of the victims of the Ukrainian plane shot down near Tehran on January 3.
July 03, 2020
Tehran's Anthropology Museum 'Cleaned Out' By Burglars

Burglars have "cleaned out" the Museum of Anthropology of old Tehran located in one of the most magnificent mansions in Iran's capital.
July 03, 2020
Explosion At Iran Nuclear Site: Accident, Sabotage Or Foreign Attack

Speculations and analysis is taking place to see what was the cause of a mysterious explosion and fire at one of Iran's most important nuclear facilities.
July 02, 2020
Mystery Group Claims Responsibility For 'Operation' Against Iran Nuclear Facility

A mysterious group calling itself "Homeland Panthers" on Thursday claimed responsibility for the explosion at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility hours before its announcement.
July 02, 2020
Iran Safety NGO Says Killer Blazes Are Due To Violations, Lack Of Enforcement

Speaking to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) on July 2, the chairman of the National Safe Society Association warned about inadequate safety measures in public buildings which led to the death of nineteen in an explosion in a medical clinic in Tehran on Wednesday.
July 02, 2020
Iran Official Says No Casualties, Serious Damages In 'Accident' At Natanz Nuclear Facility

Quoting the Spokesman of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, Behrouz Kamalvandi, Iranian news agencies on Thursday morning reported an "accident in an "industrial shed' under construction within the grounds of Natanz nuclear facility".
July 01, 2020
Pompeo Defends Arms Embargo, Says Iran 'Cannot Be Trusted'

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo intensified his efforts on Wednesday, July 1, to defend Washington's position against lifting the international arms embargo on Iran.
July 01, 2020
Striking Workers At Iran's Agro-Industrial Complex Protest On Streets

On day seventeen of the new round of strikes at Haft Tappeh agro-industrial complex on July 1, workers took to the street in Shoush and chanted slogans about poverty and hunger and against President Hassan Rouhani.
July 01, 2020
Iran Reportedly Arrests Two Swedish Citizens For 'Drug Trafficking'

Two Swedish citizens have been arrested in Iran for “drug trafficking”, Tasnim news agency close to the Revolutionary Guard reported on Wednesday.
July 01, 2020
Khamenei's Allies Attack His Critic, Defend His Record

Allies of Iran's Supreme Leader have stepped in to defend him against harsh criticism from an influential critic for the country's economic crisis.
July 01, 2020
Condemnations Of The Death Sentence For Iran Opposition Journalist

The Foreign Ministry of France and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), as well as Iran's Peace Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, have condemned the death sentence of Ruhollah Zam, a dissident journalist and activist, for allegedly fueling protests in 2017 in Iran.
July 01, 2020
Iran Lawmakers Want To Set Up 'Garlic And Lentil' Caucus In Parliament

A member of Iran’s parliament, Majles, says that the Board of Directors of the legislative body has so far received about 100 requests for forming parliamentary factions.
June 30, 2020
Explosion And Fire In Tehran Clinic Kills 19, Injures 14 Others

Iranian media report a huge explosion in a health care center in Tehran in the evening hours of June 30, killing 13-17 people and sent black smoke into the night sky.
June 30, 2020
Former President's Daughter Says Iran's Govt Is 'Neither Religious Nor Revolutionary'

An outspoken former Iranian lawmaker and the daughter of one of the founders of the Islamic Republic says Iran is neither a religious government, nor a revolutionary state.
June 30, 2020
Young Lawyer Convicted For Criticizing Iran's Khamenei

A young lawyer in Iran loyal to the Supreme Leader has been convicted for criticizing him.
June 30, 2020
US Working With Israel To Prevent Lifting Of Iran Arms Embargo, Hook Says

U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said the United States and Israel are working in tandem to prevent a United Nations arms embargo on Iran from expiring.
June 30, 2020
Dissident Abducted In Iraq And Taken To Iran Sentenced To Death

The spokesman of the Iranian Judiciary on June 30 announced that Ruhollah Zam, a dissident journalist and activist who was captured by Iranian security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan last October, has been sentenced to death for "corruption on earth".
June 30, 2020
Insurgent Group Claims Killing Guards Commander In Iran, Officials Deny

The governor of Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran on June 30denied any fatalities in an attack on three Revolutionary Guard vehicles in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan by the Baloch Justice Army (Jaish al-Adl) in the early hours of June 30.
June 30, 2020
Higher Mortality Rate In Iran This Year Raises Doubt Over Official COVID Numbers

Iran's overall death rate this year is much higher than in the past two years, raising questions about official COVID death toll.

XS

SM

MD

LG