VOA – RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil is entangled in a diplomatic spat that could potentially damage a long-standing commercial relationship with Iran, which is the biggest buyer of Brazilian corn. Seyed... Read more »

VOA – Britain’s Conservative Party announced Tuesday that Boris Johnson has won the election to be its new leader and become the country’s next prime minister. Johnson defeated British Foreign Secretary Jeremy... Read more »

LONDON – Britain on Saturday denounced Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a “hostile act” and rejected Tehran’s explanation that it seized the vessel because it had... Read more »

VOA – DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker two days... Read more »

VOA – This article originated in VOA’s Persian Service. Danila Galperovich of VOA’s Russian Service contributed A Russian bid to defy U.S. sanctions on Iran appears to have failed, with Russian energy experts saying Moscow... Read more »

VOA – LONDON — The suspect behind the leak of confidential memos from Britain’s Washington ambassador, which sparked a major diplomatic rift with the United States, has been identified, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.  Last week, Britain’s Mail on... Read more »

VOA – Iran is demanding that Britain release an Iranian oil tanker seized last week off the coast of Gibraltar and accused Britain of playing a “dangerous game” in the Persian Gulf... Read more »

VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.  Britain said Thursday that Iranian military vessels tried to “impede the passage” of a British oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. A British government statement... Read more »

زمانه – سه تن از رانندگان اخراجی شرکت واحد اتوبوس‌رانی تهران دوشنبه ۱۷ تیر مقابل وزارت تعاون، کار و رفاه اجتماعی تحصن کردند. کارفرمای شرکت واحد این رانندگان را اخراج کرده و... Read more »