Golnaz Esfandiari is a senior correspondent with RFE/RL.
Journalists in Iran are sounding the alarm over a government-drafted media regulation bill that is expected to be sent to the parliament for approval soon, after a two-year delay.
Dozens of young Afghans have protested in the capital and demanded government action to end the plague of acid attacks on women in Afghanistan's conservative, male-dominated society.
Clashes erupted this month between Kurdish fighters and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), with each side claiming to have inflicted casualties on the other. Why the sudden flare-up?
Some of the earliest clues as to Omar Mateen's possible motives came from an unlikely source: the suspect's Afghan-born father, Seddique Mateen.
The release of a video this week showing Iran's supreme leader praising families of Afghans who fought and died in Syria could be an attempt to boost morale amid Tehran's mounting casualties in the war-torn country.
Iranian Vice President Shahindokht Molaverdi has come under fire for claiming that the entire male population of a village in restive Sistan-Baluchistan Province has been executed on drug-related offenses.
A new show on Iran's state-controlled television has angered critics, who say it promotes hatred against Afghan refugees living in the Islamic republic.
As Iranian-Saudi tensions soar over Riyadh's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric, here's a sample of how Iran and Saudi Arabia see each other -- in cartoons.
An increasing number of Afghans and Pakistanis killed in the fighting in Syria have been buried in Iran in recent months, apparently while fighting with units organized by Iran.
