VOA — DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday she backed listing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization to respond to the “trampling” of... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit... Read more »
VOA — The American and Sydney Pen Associations have issued a joint statement calling for the release of Ali Asadollahi, an Iranian poet, and other writers imprisoned in Iran. “Asadollahi has been... Read more »
VOA — Iran has executed a British Iranian national. Ali Reza Akbari was a former Iranian deputy defense minister and had been charged with spying for Britain. On Saturday, Iran’s Mizan news agency announced... Read more »
VOA — DAMASCUS, SYRIA — Syria and key ally Iran agreed Saturday to renew an economic strategic arrangement between the two countries as Damascus prepares to welcome Iran’s president in the near... Read more »
VOA — Iranian chess referee Shohreh Bayat says a gesture of solidarity with female compatriots at a tournament in Iceland has caused a feud with the game’s global body and seen her... Read more »
VOA — A town in France has decided to hide from public view a sign noting its brief connection to the former supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The sign, which... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — At least 30 Iranian journalists are still imprisoned in connection with protests linked to the death of Mahsa Amini, the Tehran journalists association said Wednesday. Iran has... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran has sentenced a former deputy defense minister who holds dual Iranian-British citizenship to death on charges of spying for Britain, Iranian state media reported... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran’s religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, despite protests from Iran and... Read more »