US Expects American Dual Nationals Held in Iran to Leave in Coming Days

VOA — WHITE HOUSE — The U.S. hopes that with the transfer of blocked Iranian funds from banks in South Korea to Qatar completed, the five Iranian Americans held in the Islamic... Read more »

US, UK, Canada Issue Iran Sanctions Before Anniversary of Amini’s Death

VOA — WASHINGTON — The U.S., Britain and Canada on Friday imposed more sanctions on Iran ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini while in... Read more »

Federal Judge Says DACA Is Illegal, so What’s Next?

VOA — WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ruled again that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is illegal. The policy protected from deportation hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought... Read more »

Even Outside Jail, Iran Feels Like a Prison, Say Female Journalists

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 »

US House’s Bipartisan Measures Target Iran Over Woman’s Death, Missile Program

VOA — WASHINGTON — The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved measures Tuesday targeting Iran for its human rights record and placing restrictions on the country’s ability to import or export its expanding arsenal... Read more »

US Agrees to Free 5 Iranians in Prisoner Swap as Iran Confirms Names to VOA

VOA — WASHINGTON — New details have emerged of an apparently imminent prisoner swap between the U.S. and Iran, with the U.S. acknowledging for the first time that as part of the... Read more »

In Iran, Snap Checkpoints, University Purges Ahead of Protest Anniversary

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 »

IAEA Head Concerned at ‘Decrease in Interest’ in Iran Nuclear Escalation

VOA — VIENNA — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday he was concerned the international community was losing interest in holding Iran to account over its advancing... Read more »

On Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks, US Says Al-Qaida in Afghanistan all but Dead

VOA — WASHINGTON — More than two decades after al-Qaida operatives slammed passenger jets into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, America’s war on terror has... Read more »

Phoenix Sets New Heat Record, Hitting 43.3 C on 54 Days This Year

VOA — PHOENIX — How hot is it in Phoenix? In what has been the hottest summer ever measured, the sizzling city in the Sonoran Desert broke yet another record Saturday when... Read more »