VOA — DUBAI — One person is dead, and four others were injured in an incident at Iran’s southern refinery of Bandar Abbas last week, Iranian state media reported Monday. The Iranian... Read more »

VOA — Iran Human Rights on Friday released its statistical analysis of eye injuries sustained during the crackdown on the 2022 protests. After cross-referencing the injuries with the list of protest-related fatalities,... Read more »

VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — Hundreds of soccer fans stormed into a hotel in Tehran on Monday, hoping for a glimpse of star player Cristiano Ronaldo after he arrived with his Saudi... Read more »

VOA — Human rights activists say dozens of people were detained as Iran marked the one-year anniversary Saturday of the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Hengaw Organization for Human... Read more »

VOA — The one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa “Jina” Amini was marked Saturday by a strong military presence and a general strike by tradespeople and shopkeepers in Kurdish cities across... Read more »

VOA — Last September, protests erupted across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died while in police custody. In the months following Amini’s death,... Read more »

VOA — TEHRAN — Snap checkpoints. Internet disruptions. University purges. Iran’s theocracy is trying hard to both ignore the upcoming anniversary of nationwide protests over the country’s mandatory headscarf law and tamp... Read more »

VOA — STOCKHOLM — The family of a Swedish European Union employee detained in Iran has urged the international community to help secure his release after more than 500 days of incarceration... Read more »

Kian Derakhshan, who was badly injured in protests following the death of Mahsa Amini last September, told VOA he believes the Iranian people will ultimately prevail, ushering in a new era of... Read more »