VOA — BEIJING — China and Iran have urged mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women’s work and education. The call came in a joint statement Thursday issued at the close... Read more »
VOA — SOUTHERN SPAIN — An Iranian chess player, who moved to Spain after she competed without a hijab and had an arrest warrant issued against her back home, has no regrets... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran has released an award-winning filmmaker more than six months after arresting him for criticizing the government, a pro-reform newspaper reported. Mohammad Rasoulof, whose 2020... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN — Iran, rocked by months of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, has released several dozen well-known prisoners in an apparent attempt to appease critics of the... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — An Iranian police officer has been reprimanded after he did not enforce the country’s dress code requiring women to cover their hair, local media reported Monday. A... Read more »
VOA — UNTO FIJO, VENEZUELA — Venezuela will contract with an Iranian shipyard to build two oil tankers under an existing construction agreement bedeviled by payment delays and difficulties with needed certifications,... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN — Iranian authorities have released journalist Elnaz Mohammadi from the Hammihan newspaper on bail one week after her arrest, media reported Sunday, but her sister, also a reporter, remains... Read more »
VOA — Thousands of opponents of Iran’s ruling authorities rallied for a second day in Paris on Sunday to pressure European Union states to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — Condemnation of the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of freedom drew together eight noted Iranian dissidents who gathered to determine how they could more effectively advance their quest to... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — Thousands of Europe-based Iranians — including relatives of victims of repression in the Islamic republic, lawmakers and campaigners — on Saturday urged the European Union at a rally... Read more »