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Over 20 Iranian Prisoners of Conscience on Hunger Strike
Over 20 prisoners of conscience in various Iranian prisons are on hunger strike and their families and human rights group are concerned about the…
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Peddlers in Tehran Metro
Tehran Metro transports two million people each day, according to Tehran city officials. Reports indicate that peddlers frequenting the system to sell their goods…
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Iranians Strained by Growing Economic Crisis
Price of everyday living in spiking in every walk of life for Iranians; the price of fruit is up by 83 percent, household goods…
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Iran’s Economic Crisis Affecting Migrant Workers
Iran’s economic crisis is exacerbating the problems already faced by migrating laborers from Afghanistan. With the steep fall in the value of Iran’s national…
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Plans to Clear Panhandlers from Tehran
Tehran City officials are proposing plans to deal with panhandlers saying they are “darkening” the face of the Capital. They report that 90 percent…
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Iranian MP Wants Stadiums to Become “Family-Friendly”
After the news of drug use among the spectators at Azadi Stadium last week, Iranian MP Tayebeh Siavooshi is calling for the transformation of…
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Plummeting Iranian Currency Triggers Protests
People took to the streets in Isfahan and Karaj on Tuesday July 31 to protest rising inflation and the progressively unaffordable price of living.…
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Situation of Workers in Iran in Rapid Decline
Inflation and the rapid fall of Iranian currency value have made it impossible for minimum wage earners to afford their daily expenses. Labor activists…
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Anti Riot Police Open Fire on Iranian Protesters Demanding Clean Water
On the night of June 30th, anti-government protests in demanding clean water turned violent in the city of Khorramshahr in Southwest Iran, as anti…
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Iran to Execute Sufi Activist who did not Receive a Fair Trial
Iranian prison authorities have told the family of a Sufi Activist, Mohammad Salas that he will be executed on 18 June. The 51-year-old man…
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Iranian Authorities Respond to Labour Protests with Scores of Arrests
Fifty protesting workers of Ahwaz Steel National Industrial Group participating in protests on Monday June 11 were arrested by the authorities. Reportedly another group…
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Iran Arrests Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
Iranian security forces arrested prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh at her home on 13 June. She was taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.