VOA – DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – An Iranian rocket that was supposed to launch a telecommunications satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad Thursday. U.S. satellite images of the... Read more »

VOA – STOCKHOLM – An Iranian journalist covering Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s Nordic tour has fled the official delegation and applied for residency in Sweden, officials said Tuesday. The Swedish Migration... Read more »

VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said if U.S. President Donald Trump wants to hold talks, he must “take the first step” and lift all sanctions... Read more »

VOA – WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is challenging a federal appeals court decision that ruled he violated the U.S. Constitution by blocking people whose views he disliked from his Twitter account.... Read more »

VOA – Iranian state media said the government showcased a domestically built long-range, mobile surface-to-air missile system on Thursday. The system’s unveiling came on Iran’s National Defense Industry Day and at a... Read more »

NEW YORK – About 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s overall job performance, according to a new poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research,... Read more »

VOA – Iranian President Hassan Rohani has sent a bill to parliament that would cut four zeroes from the value of the country’s battered currency, the rial. Semiofficial news agencies reported the... Read more »

VOA – WASHINGTON – The new, top-ranking U.S. intelligence official is promising the country’s intelligence agencies will be undeterred in their work, a day after his predecessor and his predecessor’s top deputy... Read more »

بی بی سی فارسی – یک ماه پس از اعلام بازداشت اکبر طبری، معاون صادق لاریجانی در زمان ریاستش بر قوه قضاییه، فشارهای رسانه‌ای، از جمله در صداوسیما، علیه او بالا گرفته... Read more »