By David Gollust State Department 29 May 2007 The United States Tuesday dismissed as absurd charges by Iran that three Iranian-Americans visiting that country were involved in spying. The charges were announced only a day after U.S. and Iranian diplo...
By Cache Seel Cairo 29 May 2007 Iran announced that three Iranian-Americans have been formally charged with endangering national security and espionage. Cache Seel has details from our Middle East bureau in Cairo. The two academics and one journalist...
By David Gollust State Department 22 May 2007 Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center The U.S. State Department said Tuesday charges from Tehran that an Iranian-American academic has sought to topple Iran's...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 17 May 2007 Iran's foreign minister says Tehran will begin direct talks with the United States about Iraqi security later this month. From Islamabad, VOA correspondent Benjamin Sand reports the high-level meeting is not exp...
By Gary Thomas Washington 13 April 2007 Iranian state-run Al-Alam television image of detained British sailors, 30 Mar. 2007 Iran is embroiled in controversy with the West over issues ranging from Iran's nuclear ambitions to its bid to extend its in...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 27 March 2007 Beverly Hills, the upscale California community many movie stars once called their home, is getting a new mayor - an immigrant from Iran named Jimmy Jamshid Delshad. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports, the mayo...
By Reza Allahyari Iraq-Jordon border 05 March 2007 watch Refugee report The violence in Iraq has displaced thousands of people across the country. For one group of Iranian Kurds, this journey has led them to the Iraqi border with Jordan where they h...
By Gary Thomas Washingotn 23 February 2007 Before the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq had been something of a counterweight to Iranian power in the Middle East. Now with Saddam gone, Iranian political influence has been expanding, not just in Iraq,...
By Gary Thomas Washington, DC 08 February 2007 watch Iran Anniversary report On February 11th, 1979, the Iranian Revolution began. Later that year, young Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. Embassy and took its employees hostage. The United Stat...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 24 December 2006 The president of Iran dismissed U.N. sanctions imposed against his country as, in his words, superficial and unimportant. He spoke in Tehran Sunday, one day after the U.N. Security Council unanimously appr...