VOA — TEHRAN — A record number of people registered to become candidates in Iran’s parliamentary elections scheduled for March 1, 2024, the Interior Ministry said Monday. The elections will be the... Read more »

VOA — PARIS — An Iranian journalist handed a two-year jail sentence after interviewing the father of the woman whose custody death sparked months of protests said Sunday she had been released... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — IPVM, a U.S.-based security and surveillance industry research group, says the Chinese surveillance equipment maker Dahua is selling cameras with what it calls a “skin color analytics” feature... Read more »

VOA — TEHRAN — For months, Iranian authorities did little to enforce the law on women covering their hair in public, but now the country’s theocracy is pushing to make businesses the... Read more »

VOA — ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday it is “actively engaged” with Iran to try to dissuade it from pursuing international arbitration over constructing a major gas pipeline to link the two... Read more »

VOA — Japan expressed concern on Monday over Iran’s advancing uranium enrichment program and the Middle East country’s suspected supplying of combat drones to Moscow for Russia’s war on Ukraine. Japan’s Foreign... Read more »

VOA — Three Iranian police officers were killed Sunday and 11 other people injured when several buildings collapsed in the capital Tehran, local media said. The policemen were securing the planned demolition... Read more »

VOA — The Justice Department has asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington to step in after Trump released a post online that appeared... Read more »

VOA — A wildfire caused by hot weather briefly flared in grassland around Evin prison in north Tehran, detonating landmines in a security zone around the facility on Friday, Iran’s judiciary said.... Read more »