VOA — LONDON — Britain’s foreign minister James Cleverly summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat on Monday after Iranian authorities executed protestors Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini. “Today I have summoned... Read more »
VOA — LYON, FRANCE — Hundreds of people marched Sunday in France to honor an Iranian Kurdish man who took his own life in a desperate act of anguish over the nationwide... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UAE — Iranian hardliners Sunday burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics. The caricatures... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — French politicians paid tribute Saturday to Charlie Hebdo magazine staff and other victims of the January 2015 Islamist attacks, days after the satirical weekly’s latest edition sparked outrage in Iran.... Read more »
VOA — BRUSSELS — The European Union said it was “appalled” after Iran executed two men Saturday for killing a paramilitary force member during protests sparked by a young woman’s death in... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI — A top dissident Iranian Sunni cleric on Friday denounced as un-Islamic Iran’s alleged use of forced confessions to convict detained protesters, as weekly demonstrations continued in the county’s... Read more »
VOA — Iran’s statistics agency reported last month that inflation in December hit 48.5% compared to the same time a year earlier. With that figure, the Statistical Center of Iran put inflation... Read more »
VOA — Negotiations to return to the international agreement that limited Iran’s nuclear program is not a current priority for the United States, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday. Spokesman Ned Price... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests,... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — Iran warned France on Wednesday of consequences after satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed to be insulting. The weekly magazine had... Read more »