National security adviser's Wednesday statement sought to clarify remarks made hours earlier by Trump, who said he did ‘not accept' that Levinson was dead
Some Iranians dismiss declarations of coronavirus infections by Iranian political and religious figures as fake, while others accuse elites of monopolizing access to medical testing
Iranians jailed for alleged political and security crimes and their relatives tell VOA Persian they are increasingly worried about the contagion risk in prisons, as other inmates are granted furloughs
In Monday edition of VOA Persian call-in show, Iranians accused their government of being too slow to fight the virus, misleading them about it spread and using it to settle scores
Spokesperson for State Department offers a look at the decision process behind attack on Iranian general
Wife, children of Robert Levinson, missing in Iran since 2007, told VOA Persian their testimony in a Washington court this week was aimed at holding Tehran accountable
VOA Persian obtains an open letter from a group of 19 Iranian lawyers who say Sunday's jailing of their counterpart, Mostafa Tork Hamedani, violates Iran's commitments to rule of law
Iran Human Rights group has condemned reported executions of Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zaniar Moradi and Loghman Moradi
Exiled Iranian Dervish activist Alireza Roshan accused Iran of denying medical treatment to seven jailed Dervish women in violation of national regulations
Rights groups say security agents detained Reza Khandan, who campaigned for release of his wife, human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh, at his home early Tuesday and took him to Tehran’s Evin prison
A council of Azeri Sunni prayer centers in Tehran and neighboring Alborz said Sunnis were prevented from holding Eid al-Adha prayers in some districts of those provinces Wednesday
Ghasem Sholesadi's lawyer denies former politician engaged in conspiracy by staging protest outside Iran's parliament Saturday
Speaking to VOA Persian, Iranian lawyer Hossein Ahmadiniaz says he will appeal Amir Hossein Miresmaili’s sentence because the journalist was not tried by the appropriate court
In a VOA Persian phone interview, Rezvan Beigi said Tehran’s Evin prison has barred her husband, Behfar Lalezari, from being treated in a hospital for life-threatening ailments
In tweets posted Wednesday and Thursday, Majzooban Noor said courts in Tehran sentenced its news editors Reza Entesari and Mostafa Abdi to seven and 24 years in prison respectively
Tehran city council chief says Iran faces crisis in coming months as new US sanctions fuel inflation
A lawyer for the girls sent VOA Persian images of them holding signs outside President Rouhani’s compound on Wednesday, requesting to see him
Lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told VOA Persian he feared the worst for his client Maryam Faraji after she went missing last week
The head of the Iranian capital’s City Council has made an unusual acknowledgement of mass corruption by municipal workers nationwide
One group quoted a husband of one of the women as saying a Tehran court sentenced them for participating in a February anti-government protest
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