Browsing: VOA News on Iran

Prominent Iranian dissident Hossein Ronaghi and former national soccer team player Voria Ghafouri have been released on bail, according to…

dubai, united arab emirates —  Iran arrested a prominent former member of its national soccer team on Thursday over his…

U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk urged Iranian authorities to halt “unnecessary and disproportionate” use of force against protesters. Speaking…

Washington —  The United States on Wednesday targeted three Iranian security officials under human rights-related sanctions, the U.S. Treasury Department…

The United Nations on Tuesday assailed Iran for the Islamic Republic’s increasingly harsh attacks on protests that were sparked by…

Dubai —  Investigators have concluded that an Iranian drone was used to bomb an oil tanker linked to an Israeli…

Iran has begun producing enriched uranium at 60% purity at the country’s underground Fordo nuclear plant, official media reported Tuesday,…

WASHINGTON/DOHA —  On day two of the World Cup in Qatar, Iran’s turmoil from a two-month long protest movement against…

Iranian authorities are reportedly detaining dozens of people among the Azerbaijani Turk communities in the country’s northwest after a local…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —  Iranian security forces used heavy gunfire against protesters in a Kurdish town in the country’s…