Based in Iran, Radio Farda is a radio station. Its live stream plays right here in your browser, free and without an account.
Radio Farda is the Persian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, made for audiences in Iran. It carries news, investigative reporting and podcasts in Persian, and reaches about 6.5 million people inside Iran each week, roughly one adult in ten.
The service launched in 2002 as a joint project with Voice of America, replacing the earlier Radio Azadi, and has been run by RFE/RL alone since 2008. Most of its audience follows it on the web and through social video, and shortwave broadcasts into Iran resumed in January 2026 after an internet blackout there. Iran's government has placed it on a sanctions list. It is a source for Iranian news produced outside the country.
Written from the station’s website (about.rferl.org).