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Iran is scrambling to boost turnout ahead of legislative elections on March 1, but calls on voters to show up to the polls may be falling on deaf ears as Iranians grapple with an ailing economy, growing political distrust and a quashed protest movement.

Operatives from Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizballah are working inside Yemen to support Huthi insurgents' attacks on international shipping, the U.S. special envoy for Yemen told a Senate subcommittee on February 27.

By Rosa Rahimi and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Iran is scrambling to boost turnout ahead of legislative elections on March 1, but calls on voters to

Iran's March 1 elections will usher in a new parliament and Assembly of Experts, a body that picks the country's supreme leader. But in dozens of audio and written messages sent to RFE/RL's Radio Farda from inside Iran, many people said they will not vote in what they said will be unfair elections.

Jailed Iranian dissident rapper Saman Yasin, who was detained in 2022 and has detailed harrowing accounts of physical and psychological torture he has endured, has made a plea from prison to Iran's judiciary to "issue my death sentence" rather than continue holding him indefinitely without a trial. 

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) - Irans so-called axis of resistance is a loose network of proxies, Tehran-backed militant …

Documents leaked by the hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) appear to show clandestine actions against journalists of Persian-language media operating outside of Iran, including those affiliated with RFE/RL's Radio Farda, by the Iranian judiciary.

Voters in Iran will go to the polls on March 1 in elections that are likely to solidify hard-liners' hold on power. The elections come amid rising anti-establishment sentiment among the public and are the first since unprecedented nationwide protests in 2022.

The number of Christians arrested in Iran jumped sharply in the last six months of 2023, according to a religious rights group, which called on the government to “immediately and unconditionally” release all Christians detained on charges relating to their faith and religious activities.

The Czech Republic has extradited a man facing charges in the United States for plotting the murder of a prominent critic of Iran's government.