VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran announced Monday that the country’s supreme leader has pardoned more than 22,000 people arrested in the recent anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic.... Read more »

VOA — PARIS — Leading media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday urged Iran to release a journalist arrested after closely covering a spate of mysterious poisonings of schoolgirls, saying... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iranian teachers protested Tuesday over suspected poisonings targeting schoolgirls, as a prominent lawmaker and an activist group put the number of those reporting symptoms into... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI — Women violating the Islamic dress code will be punished, Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency, reaffirming the law... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — A crisis over suspected poisonings targeting Iranian schoolgirls escalated Sunday as authorities acknowledged more than 50 schools were struck in a wave of possible cases.... Read more »

VOA — BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — Belgium’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld a prisoner exchange treaty with Iran that could lead to the swap of a convicted Iranian diplomat for a jailed Belgian... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — A series of large rallies in Los Angeles in support of recent protests in Iran against Tehran’s Islamist leadership has revealed a surge of activism among young Iranian... Read more »

VOA — A prominent Azerbaijani-Turkish civil rights activist freed from prison last week in Iran is publicly defying his court-ordered sentence of “internal exile” in an act of civil disobedience. Abbas Lisani... Read more »

BBC — A fierce winter storm has caused widespread disruptions in the US, while south-eastern parts of the country brace for record-high temperatures. Read more »