Category: 1. Iran

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter.

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking into the back-and-forth between Israeli and Iranian…

The Amir Kabir Dam, inaugurated in 1960 as Iran’s first multipurpose dam, is now at its lowest level in more than six decades of operation. Once vital to supplying Tehran province, it currently holds only about 14 percent of its 205 million…

“I’m not able to confirm that the Secretary-General would ever have said that,” UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York. He said Aref appeared to be referring to an August meeting in Turkmenistan and pointed to the UN…

The Miankaleh International Wetland in northern Iran has become a seasonal haven for migratory birds, including flamingos, as autumn migration gets underway, according to the head of the Miankaleh Wildlife Refuge and Reserve.

According to leaked documents published by the exile platform Wiki-Iran and analyzed by German broadcaster ZDF, emails in the dataset of Sepehr Energy Jahan (SEJ) — an Iranian oil firm tied to the defense ministry — refer to a Berlin-based…

Pars Today — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a statement emphasizing vigilance against the Israeli regime’s breaches, announced that Iran has consistently supported any measure or initiative aimed at…

Pars Today — A prominent U.S. newspaper reported that anger toward the Israeli regime has spread from the Islamic world to Europe and increasingly to the United States, noting that Israel’s actions have driven regional countries closer…