Rahimpour left the BBC in order to ''have access to more platforms as a freelance journalist so to be a voice for the Iranians fighting for democracy.

[3] Rana Rahimpour has faced death threats and had family members detained due to her work for the BBC.

[7][8] As a bilingual reporter, Rahimpour covers Iranian politics on multiple BBC platforms,[9] including the flagship news programme Newsnight.

[13] She is one of the outspoken advocates of free press and has been campaigning against the harassment of BBC Persian journalists and their family members in Iran.

[14][15] In 2018, she addressed the United Nation's Human Rights Council in Geneva, calling for an end to the intimidation of journalists by the Iranian authorities.