VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — Tehran residents accustomed to seething at slow-moving traffic, sweltering in summer heat and suffocating in smog may be surprised to find a growing number of outdoor painters... Read more »
VOA — U.S. President Joe Biden Friday called the U.S. Supreme Court “extremist” and “out of control” as he signed an executive order protecting women seeking access to reproductive health care following... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iranian authorities arrested an outspoken pro-reform activist, saying he conspired to act against state security, semi-official media in Iran reported Saturday. The arrest is the... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — Iranian state TV said Wednesday that the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has accused the deputy ambassador of the United Kingdom and other foreigners in the country of... Read more »
DW — Iranian officers have accused several foreigners, including a UK diplomat and Polish professor, of spying. The UK denied any of its diplomats had been detained. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards detained several... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a network of Chinese, Emirati and other companies that it accused of helping to deliver and sell Iranian petroleum and... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — Schools and government offices closed in Iran’s capital and several other cities in the country on Monday as another sandstorm blanketed Tehran and the surrounding region. State-run... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN — The daughter of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was charged with carrying out propaganda activity against the country and blasphemy in social media comments, the judiciary said... Read more »
VOA — DAMASCUS, SYRIA — Iran’s top diplomat condemned on Saturday Israel’s latest airstrike on Syria and criticized recent threats from Turkey about another planned incursion by Ankara into northern Syria. Foreign... Read more »
VOA — TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — Abortion providers and patients were struggling Friday to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned... Read more »