WASHINGTON – Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Persian-language service Radio Farda took home a Silver Award in the “Documentary | Human Rights” category at the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards, for Fahimeh Khezr Heidari’s audio documentary “The Censored Life of Shabnam Tolouei.”.
Despite their total control of power, Iran’s political hard-liners appear to be gripped by infighting. The controversy over the reported shopping trip by the family of Iran’s parliament speaker has helped expose those divisions.