VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran’s bazaars are packed ahead of the Persian New Year next week, but there’s little holiday cheer as customers survey the soaring prices of meat... Read more »
VOA — MOSCOW — Russia said Wednesday it had started naval exercises with China and Iran in the Arabian Sea as it seeks to shore up ties with Beijing and Tehran. The... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran announced Monday that the country’s supreme leader has pardoned more than 22,000 people arrested in the recent anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic.... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — Iran has announced more than 100 arrests nationwide over the mystery poisonings of thousands of schoolgirls, charging that the unidentified alleged perpetrators may have links with “hostile” groups.... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — Iran is striving to expand its influence in fellow U.S. adversary Venezuela, which is hosting an Iranian cultural fair this week and seeking Iranian assistance to revive the... Read more »
VOA — WHITE HOUSE — Despite its rocky relations with China, the White House says it welcomes Beijing’s efforts to help end the war in Yemen and de-escalate tensions in the region... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday announced more sanctions against people and firms associated with Iran and with what it said was an illicit banking network used to conceal... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — Leading media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday urged Iran to release a journalist arrested after closely covering a spate of mysterious poisonings of schoolgirls, saying... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iranian teachers protested Tuesday over suspected poisonings targeting schoolgirls, as a prominent lawmaker and an activist group put the number of those reporting symptoms into... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI — Women violating the Islamic dress code will be punished, Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency, reaffirming the law... Read more »