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4 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Kian Sharifi |Rikard Jozwiak |Golnaz Esfandiari |Parisa Sohbati
Iran has released video showing a massive underground missile facility filled with a cache of high-powered weaponry. The footage, shared on March 25, showed Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Baqeri and Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Aerospace Force commander, showing off what Iranian media said was an "underground missile city."Some of Iran’s most advanced weapons are seen mounted on vehicles in the underground tunnels.
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1 month ago | 
rferl.org | Rikard Jozwiak |Kian Sharifi |Golnaz Esfandiari |Parisa Sohbati
Millions of Afghans in Iran face an uncertain future as Tehran prepares to implement sweeping restrictions that will cut off access to health care, education, housing, and other essential services for undocumented immigrants. The new policy, set to take effect on March 21, has left many Afghans grappling with impossible choices between a hostile host country and an unstable homeland. For Rasheed, an Afghan immigrant living in Iran, the consequences of these policies have already hit home.
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1 month ago | 
rferl.org | Kian Sharifi |Golnaz Esfandiari |Parisa Sohbati |Babak Ghafooriazar
The United States has launched extensive air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, aiming to curb their threat to shipping while also signaling a warning to Iran. In a statement announcinghis directive on March 15, US President Donald Trump also warned Iran to “immediately” end its support for the Houthis and vowed to hold Tehran “fully accountable” if it threatened Americans or shipping lanes.
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1 month ago | 
rferl.org | Golnaz Esfandiari |Kian Sharifi |Parisa Sohbati |Babak Ghafooriazar
Iran has escalated its crackdown on female singers in an effort to silence them. In past weeks, several women have been detained or summoned by authorities, while their Instagram pages have been shut down. Since the 1979 revolution, women in Iran have been banned from singing solo in public. But despite the restrictions, many female artists have turned to social media to share their voices—often defying both the singing ban and the country’s strict hijab laws.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
slobodnaevropa.org | Una Cilic |Parisa Sohbati
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Michael Scollon |Parisa Sohbati
Iran says it has measures in place to ensure it will continue producing and exporting oil even if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Tehran once he takes office in January. During his first term in office in 2017-21, Trump withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and reimposed sanctions as part of his administration’s “maximum pressure” policy against Tehran.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Michael Scollon |Parisa Sohbati
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says another attack on Israel would paralyze the Islamic republic's economy and cost billions of dollars that could be spent to the benefit of ordinary Iranians.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Michael Scollon |Parisa Sohbati
The general chief of staff of Saudi Arabia’s armed forces, Fayyad Al-Ruwaili, has met his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Baqeri, in Tehran during a rare visit on November 10. Iran’s official IRNA news agency said they discussed the development of defense diplomacy and bilateral cooperation without offering any details. Iranian media said Baqeri had discussed regional developments and defense cooperation with Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud last year.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Michael Scollon |Parisa Sohbati
Iran signaled an openness toward Donald Trump on November 9, calling on the U.S. president-elect to adopt new policies toward it after Washington accused Tehran of involvement in a plot to kill him. Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif urged Trump to reassess the policy of "maximum pressure" he employed against the Islamic republic during his first term. "Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past," Zarif told reporters.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
rferl.org | Abubakar Siddique |Kian Sharifi |Michael Scollon |Parisa Sohbati
The U.S. Justice Department on November 8 unsealed criminal charges that detail a plot backed by Iran to kill President-elect Donald Trump before the November 5 election. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City alleges that an unnamed official in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) instructed a contact to develop a plan to surveil and ultimately kill Trump, the Justice Department said in a news release.
