Farid Modaresi has a degree in communications and is a specialist journalist on Iranian seminaries and the country's Shia clergy. He also previously worked as a political journalist for the Shargh, Etemad and Hammihan newspapers. Modaresi is a member of the Central Council of Daftar Tahkim Vahdat – the Office for Strengthening Unity – which is a pro-democracy reformist student organisation. He is also a member of the Central Council of the Islamic Association of Students of Allameh Tabatabai University. Modaresi is also a media activist on Twitter.

On January 5, 2021, Farid Modaresi published a tweet on his personal Twitter page in which he announced that the Director-General of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Network had filed a legal complaint against him.

The complaint was filed in Branch 16 of the Culture and Media Prosecutor’s Office by IRIB's Legal Department on the allegation of "spreading lies.”

In his recent Twitter statement, Modaresi wrote that the basis for the IRIB’s legal complaint was a tweet that he had posted on August 14, 2019 in which he had written: “Is this the end of Abdulali Ali Asgari? They have made his leadership of IRIB so ineffective that, in one of the meetings of the Supreme Council, he himself said: “They would not listen to me. I said to do one thing, they did something else! Now, under the pretext of the mismanagement that they created, they want to change it again.” Will he [Ali Asgari] leave his position as a political deputy?”

Modaresi made these comments in reference to a response that Ali Asgari, IRIB's Director-General, gave to a question by Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and the Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani, regarding the broadcast of the Gando television series, a popular Iranian spy thriller based on a true story. In response to Hassan Rouhani and Ali Larijani's question about the broadcast of this series, Asgari said: “My managers do not listen to me; I said do one thing, they do something else.”

In recent days, Modaresi had described Asgari's decision to take legal action against him as “irresponsible.” He added that: “Mr. Ali Asgari should know not to use the legal assistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Network for a personal complaint. It is not moral, legal or in accordance with Sharia [law].”

No information has been published about whether Farid Modaresi has reported to the Culture and Media Prosecutor’s Office as part of the legal complaint.