VOA — WASHINGTON — Iran carried out 142 executions in May, marking the highest number of people put to death in one month in the country since 2015, a rights group said... Read more »
VOA — Following the Wednesday beating of a journalist in Iran by the bodyguards of Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the country’s first supreme leader, Iranian reporters are saying that such violent... Read more »
VOA — Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have resolved questions about one of three sites where inspectors found previously undeclared nuclear material, Iranian state media said Tuesday. The IAEA has... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — Even with the new spending restraints in the debt limit deal, the U.S. government’s deficits are still on course to keep climbing to record levels over the next... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday he would welcome a resumption of diplomatic relations with Egypt, during a meeting with Oman’s visiting Sultan Haitham bin... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI — Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said arrived in Tehran for a two-day visit Sunday which is expected to focus on regional diplomatic and security issues, Iranian state media... Read more »
VOA — STREATOR, ILLINOIS — Last year, just as farmer David Isermann was coming out of years of chaos created by the coronavirus pandemic, he was heading into the fields to plant... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — The Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan, killing and wounding troops while sharply escalating rising tensions between... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — This week, U.S. and Chinese officials held meetings in Washington aimed at building ties following months of tension since Beijing’s surveillance balloon floated across the U.S. in early... Read more »
VOA — An Iranian diplomat imprisoned in Belgium, Asadollah Assadi, and a Belgian aid worker jailed in Iran, Olivier Vandecasteele, were freed on Friday in an exchange mediated by Oman, both sides... Read more »