Radio Farda and RadioFarda.com is a joint project of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA). The 24-hour, seven-day-a-week service is produced in Washington, D.C. and Prague, Czech Republic, with audio transmissions to listeners online and via AM, shortwave and satellite. On the air, Radio Farda features fresh news and information at least twice an hour, with longer news programming in the morning and the evening. Radio Farda also broadcasts popular Persian and Western music. Online, users can read, listen and interact with short news headlines as well as in-depth topical coverage on: Iran, the World, Arts, Sports and Entertainment.
ENGLISH COVERAGE OF IRAN AND THE REGION
"Focus on Farda" is a bi-weekly review of news, analysis and coverage of events concerning Iran by the staff of Radio Farda.
VOA Web site coverage in English
RFE/RL Web site coverage of Iran in English
"RFE/RL Iran Report" is a weekly review of developments in and pertaining to Iran. First published in 1998, RFE/RL Iran Report is written and compiled by A. William Samii, RFE/RL Regional Analysis Coordinator for Southwest Asia and the Middle East.
"RFE/RL Newsline®," a daily report on developments in RFE/RL's broadcast region, has included news on Iran since November 2002.
ABOUT VOA and RFE/RL
The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Broadcasting 1,000 hours of programming each week, the Prague-based RFE/RL has 19 bureaus throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union and over 1,100 freelancers reporting local news and current affairs.