The Pentagon called the incident 'significant,' saying two rounds of warning shots were fired before the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boa
The Kremlin critic took the opportunity to attack Russian President Vladimir Putin
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has already served a five-year prison sentence in the Islamic Republic
Iran and the world powers have been meeting in Vienna since early April to work on steps that must be taken to bring back Tehran and Washington into f
President Ghani made remarks after inaugurating new dam near Iranian border
/In VOA Persian interview, Robert Malley suggested Iran-backed militants' recent rocket strikes on US forces in Iraq make it harder to build support i
Human rights group says Zaghari-Ratcliffe needs mental and physical healthcare
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and later convicted of plotti
It was an apparent response to rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq
Iranian parliament questions validity of temporary accord reached with IAEA head
Assadollah Assadi was found guilty of planning to attack an Iranian opposition group in France
Iran, a major backer of Syrian President al-Assad's regime, has built a significant military presence since the beginning of that country's civil war
Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady convicted of conducting subversive research work, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency
It's latest incident in region that has been in grip of Islamist insurgency for more than a decade
Iranian media shows bullet holes in car windshield from attack and video of helicopter transporting Fakhrizadeh to hospital
Three other Iranian nationals are also accused of planning the attack on an opposition rally featuring US President Donald Trump's attorney
In VOA Persian interview, US-based daughter of dissident Jamshid Sharmahd said an Iranian lawyer hired by her family in October has been barred by Ira
Nasibeh Shemsai left the Islamic Republic for Turkey and was arrested trying to flee into Spain illegally
In VOA Persian interview, source close to Maryam Ebrahimvand's family said an Iranian court notified Ebrahimvand's lawyer of its verdict November 1
In VOA Persian interview from Turkey, Fatemeh Khoshrou said the Iranian judiciary sent her a digital notification of her one-year sentence October 22
Esmail Abdi's wife tells VOA Persian he reported severe pain on left side of body in call from Tehran's Evin prison
Paris-based Taghi Rahmani told VOA Persian he heard about his wife's Thursday release from family members in Iran and wished more political prisoners
In a message Tuesday to VOA Persian, source close to family of dissident Farhad Meysami said Meysami tested positive for virus at Karaj prison and was
In VOA interview, a friend of Behnam Mahjoubi said the dissident's transfer from Tehran's Evin prison to the psychiatric hospital happened Saturday ag
Activist's arrest prompts social media campaign she says saved her from deportation
Jawar Mohammed scheduled to re-appear in court Thursday for charges to be read out
In VOA interview, lawyer Saleh Nikbakht criticized Iran's Supreme Court for rejecting his request to retry Heydar Ghorbani, sentenced to death for 201
Source tells VOA Persian that Navid Afkari told relatives in a brief Sunday phone call from prison that he and his two jailed brothers were beaten and
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily released from jail in March amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus in Iran's prisons but is barred from le
In Monday interview with VOA Persian, source who is close to family of Navid Afkari Sangari said Iran's Supreme Court upheld Afkari's death sentence
Protests come after killing of protest leaders, and explosion in Nasiriyah's central Haboubi Square
Nasrin Sotoudeh's husband told VOA that she started her second hunger strike of the year Tuesday at Tehran's Evin prison, where she has been detained
Acting Assistant Secretary for US Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs told journalists that opening of market shows this is lik
Since late June, a string of fires and blasts have been reported at military, industrial and nuclear sites in Iran as well as at oil refineries, power
In July 3 statement recorded by phone from Tehran's Evin prison and sent to VOA, Anoosheh Ashoori vows to raise awareness about 'victims of tyranny' a
Pompeo is leading a US drive to persuade the Security Council to extend the embargo due to expire in mid-October under the terms of the 2015 Iran nucl
The explosion reportedly occurred as gas canisters caught fire in the basement of a medical clinic in northern Tehran
Iranian state television is reporting an explosion from a gas leak in a medical clinic in northern Tehran has injured at least three people
Ruhollah Zam had been living and working in exile in Paris before being lured into returning to Iran, where he was arrested in October 2019 under sti
New charges could add to her seven-year prison term for peaceful activism
Iranian media showed images of Sirous Asgari arriving Wednesday in Tehran, four years after he was prosecuted and later acquitted of stealing US trade
Collapse of economy has led to severe fuel shortages in Venezuela/
Paris has called for the release of Fariba Adelkhah, but Tehran does not recognize dual citizenship for Iranians
The service members are in hospitals in Germany and Kuwait
Tensions escalated recently after the the U.S. conducted a targeted killing of a top Iranian commander in Iraq
Protests enter third day in several cities across country, as anger shifts from United States for killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani January 3, to Iran'
Iranians turn memorial honoring passengers of Ukrainian jetliner into protest against their government
A night of vigils for the victims of a Ukrainian passenger airliner mistakenly shot down by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps erupted into anti
US officials say the operation took place on the same day a US drone strike killed Qassem Soleimani
Unrest in Iran and anti-immigrant rhetoric in US is seeding fear, they say
US airstrike killed Quds Force commander in Iraq
State television broadcast live footage of the Sunday ceremonies showing black-clad marchers chanting and beating their chests in homage to Qasem Sole
US analysts discuss the move and its impact on Iran, and US policies in the Middle East region
Thousands of mourners are gathering for a funeral procession through Baghdad for Iran's top general and Iraqi militant leaders killed in a U.S. airstr
Strike follows attack that killed one US contractor, wounded US and Iraqi troops
The killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the r
US and Iranian leaders trade threats