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 at how Irans leadership is embracing…
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 at how Irans leadership is embracing…
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 at how Iran’s leadership is embracing patriotic themes…
Speaking during this week’s Friday Prayers in Tehran earlier today, Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Javad Haj Ali said that “In the 12-day war, we went through a great epic that must be studied in its various dimensions and hundreds of artistic and…
Tamara Kovacevic
BBC Verify senior journalist
Speaking on the BBC’s Breakfast and Today programmes this morning, shadow…
Why it matters:
As tensions between Iran and Israel intensify following recent military strikes, regional analysts, diplomats, and scholars are examining the broader implications for nuclear diplomacy, West Adia stability,…
Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been threatened with “physical elimination” by Iran, according to a statement from the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Ms Mohammadi, an Iranian, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for work including…
“The threats conveyed to Ms Mohammadi make it clear that her security is at stake, unless she commits to end all public engagement within Iran, as well as any international advocacy or media appearances in support of democracy, human rights, and…
Afghan women chat as their children play in the room they slept in overnight at a transit centre in Herat, Afghanistan, after being deported from Iran, on July 4, 2025. Since the passing of a recent new legislation in…
Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist
I’ve been looking for more detail about the UK government’s “one in, one out”…
Why it matters:
According to the Non-Prolifereation Treaty (NPT), all countries can have peaceful nuclear industry. The U.S., allied with the Israeli regime that has refused to sign the NPT, bombed Iranian nuclear sites and…