Heavy rainfall on Hormuz Island created blood-red runoff as iron oxide soil washes into coastal waters, and it was captured ...

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"Iran has always been brutal toward its critics but the current wave of repression in Tehran has a scent of panic," writes ...

Persian Style is premiering on Bravo in 2026. Get all the details on Season 1, including what to expect from the cast.

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 a ...

On a busy sidewalk outside a café, a group of young people, many of them women, bob their heads to the beat of “Seven Nation Army,” by the White Stripes. Huddled around a live band, some shake their ...

YouTube has a new feature that will automatically upscale videos. Upscaling will start on videos that are less than HD quality. Creators can opt out, and viewers can choose to view the original. That ...

YouTube has announced that it will start using AI to upscale low-quality videos with a new “Super Resolution” feature coming soon. In a blog post today, YouTube announced a few new features coming to ...

Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on display at his daughter’s wedding. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has lived ...

If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, “Be my guest this time,” accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect you to insist on paying—probably three times—before ...

When Jon Peters uploaded his first video to YouTube in 2010, he had no idea where it would lead. He was a professional woodworker running a small business who decided to film himself making a dining ...

You can download YouTube videos for offline viewing using tools like 4K Video Downloader Plus for high-quality and batch downloads, or YouTube Premium for a seamless ...