Golnaz Esfandiari is a senior correspondent with RFE/RL.
A budding doctor who came to Iran on a medical scholarship has been working to save coronavirus patients since volunteering at one of the country's biggest hubs of COVID-19 care.
Persian is thought to have around 110 million speakers worldwide, including in Iran, Tajikistan, and much of Afghanistan. Its alphabet is a modified form of Arabic script.
Current and former Afghan officials and observers of events in the war-torn country are criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that the Soviet Union was “right” to invade in 1979.
Conservatives challenge cineastes' submission for the Oscars over its gloomy depiction of life in Iran, saying a more patriotic choice lionizing Iranian efforts in Syria would have been better.
Iran is applauding an Afghan-born immigrant for her scientific contributions, including a pollution-monitoring device that is expected to be used in a major underground tunnel in the Iranian capital.
Two London-based Iranians developed a new version of the popular social media app Telegram to counter a ban by Iran's hard-line judiciary.
Iranian journalists have criticized a government offer to provide 100 of them with free Internet, saying they'd reject such a privilege because unrestricted Internet is everyone's right.
A shocking video shows a young, burqa-clad Afghan woman brutally beaten by a mob that included her own relatives.
One by one, Iranians are publicly defying the so-called hijab rule in echoes of an iconic protest by a 31-year-old mother in Tehran.
Reports suggest the United States could designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization. Tehran has warned that such a move would be met with a "firm, decisive, and crushing" response.
Iran's latest arrests of alleged Islamic State extremists has added to the scrutiny of the group's presence in Iran
An Afghan group is seeking to end long-held taboos in society and restore a basic right to women -- for them to be identified by their own names.
The radical group Islamic State (IS) is using more Persian projects to ramp up efforts to lure disaffected Iranians -- particularly from among Shi'a-dominated Iran's Sunni minority -- into its brutal circle of militancy.
Officials say the number of women elected to local councils in the Sunni-majority province, which shares borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, more than doubled.
After weeks of speculation, Ebrahim Raisi, the head of Iran’s wealthiest state charity, has officially announced his intention to run in the country’s presidential vote next month.
The militant group Islamic State (IS) has threatened Iran in a grisly video message released in Persian.
Iran has opened a new complex to house the families of Afghan fighters killed in the ongoing Syrian war, where Tehran has teamed up with Moscow to help regional ally President Bashar al-Assad counter an armed rebellion.
The spiritual leader of Iran's Sunnis is concerned about an alleged "secret order" by the government to execute Sunni drug traffickers before a draft bill eliminating the death penalty becomes law.
Here are the accounts of four survivors of the 10-hour assault by gunmen on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. At least 13 people were killed in the attack. Survivors describe barricading themselves behind classroom doors, clinging to the floor as shots rang out meters away, and suffering injuries as they and others scrambled to reach safety.
The death of a 12-year-old Afghan girl in Iran has prompted that country's health minister to publicly defend a national ban on organ transplants for foreigners that some were initially blaming for the tragedy.
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