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Iran’s Health Officials Raise Alarm over Islamic Medicine
A phenomenon referred to as “Islamic Medicine” has been rapidly growing in popularity in Iran raising concerns in the Ministry of Health. The ministry…
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Save Mohammad Ali Taheri’s Life and Resist Judicial Clerocracy in Iran
The news was starkly succinct. On August 27, 2017, Mr. Ismaili, the General Manager of Tehran’s Judiciary announced that Mohammad Ali Taheri, the leader…
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Shirin Ebadi to Fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi: Condemn Violence against Rohingya Muslims
More than 100,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh as persecution and violence against them escalated. Now Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace…
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Iranian Workers, Pensioners Protest Months of Delayed Wages
Labour protests have become the order of the day in Tehran and other cities across the country with workers and pensioners demanding payment of…
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Iranian Filmmaker Refuses to Honour State-Backed Film
Following the twelfth presidential elections in the Islamic Republic, the history of Iran’s post Revolutionary state and political figures has become a hot topic…
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Iranian Government Responds to the Demand of the Hunger Striking Opposition Leader
Government of Hassan Rouhani has responded to the demands of Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader who was on hunger strike in house arrest. Karroubi…
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Iranian Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Goes on Hunger Strike to Challenge Arrest
Mehdi Karroubi, one of the opposition leaders of Iran’s Green Movement who has been under house arrest since 2010 is now refusing food in…
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Frequent Concert Cancellations in Iran draws Fire from the Music Community
The musicians in Iran are constantly being harassed and mistreated by the conservatives who are in power in judiciaries, especially in religious urban centers.…
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Afghan Migrant Workers in Iran: Continuing Struggle and Exploitation
This short report is based on field observation and research inside Iran and paints the picture of the situation of Afghan migrant workers in…
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More Changes to the Drug-Related Death Penalty Proposal in Iran
While Iranian MPs are requesting that judiciary temporary suspends executions for minor drug charges, a proposal to amend the law and reduce execution rates…
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Rights Groups are Concerned as more Arrests are Allegedly Linked to ISIS in Iran
An official with Mashhad Judiciary in Iran says that the recent arrests of 27 individual in Iran are linked to “ISIS terrorists”
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ISIS Attacks Iranian Parliament and Mausoleum of Khomeini
The Iranian capital was the site of two simultaneous attacks by assailants linked to “Islamic State” (Daesh). Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of the…