VOA — DUBAI — Iran said Monday it would continue efforts to gain the release of a former Iranian official sentenced in Sweden to life in prison for his part in a... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — Iranian-American activists seeking to oust former Iranian officials from U.S. academia to hold them accountable for the Islamic republic’s poor human rights record say a U.S. college that... Read more »

VOA — Electrical workers in Iran staged a protest Saturday seeking better working conditions and wages, according to Iranian media covering the so-called “yellow hats” protest in front of the National Employment... Read more »

VOA — Javad Soudbar, a civil rights activist detained in Tabriz, Iran, on Friday neared the two-week mark of his hunger strike. His family has not been informed about his well-being, raising... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — Students from China retained their position in 2023 as the largest group of international students in the United States. Despite a slight dip, they are still the leading... Read more »

PARIS — Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira Sabzian, who had... Read more »

VOA — STOCKHOLM — A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday upheld a guilty verdict and life sentence given to a former Iranian official convicted last year for his part in a mass... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — U.S. and Ukrainian researchers say Western nations are making progress in trying to curb illicit transfers of Western electronic components to a Russian facility suspected of making Iranian-designed... Read more »

VOA — An Israeli intelligence officer was executed Saturday in Iran, according to IRNA, Iran’s state news agency. The alleged agent was accused of stealing secrets and giving them to Mossad, Israel’s... Read more »