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's Iran correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition I'm ...

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian insisted in an interview his country "never" plotted to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump during last year's U.S. election campaign − and never will in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops board a plane during a drill, at an airport in Rasht in northern Iran, to ...

Iran’s top-ranking general in Syria has contradicted the official line taken by Iran’s leaders on the sudden downfall of their ally Bashar al-Assad, saying in a remarkably candid speech last ...

Iran's military forces were four days into extensive drills on Wednesday that many believe are essentially preparations for how the country could react to a U.S., Israeli or combined attack on its ...

Iranian leaders, under economic pressure at home and feeling the weight of increasing instability in the region, are attempting to project strength at the beginning of a year that threatens fresh ...

Iran unveiled an underground missile storage facility and announced Friday that it is manufacturing “new special missiles,” according to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) affiliated ...

Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops board a plane during a drill, at an airport in Rasht in northern Iran, to Kermanshah in western Iran, in this photo released on Jan. 5, 2025. (Hossein Zohrevand ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lead bilateral talks between their respective delegations in Beijing, China, Dec. 27, 2024. Credit: Foreign ...

Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran. Maya joined Newsweek in 2024 from the Londoners and had previously ...