The Iranian Education department in Al-Ahwaz has officially given the opportunity to hire 2,000 teachers from Lur tribes, that underwent a very short training and will be employed, Ahwazi Center for Human Rights reports. “In …
European governments fear the joined effort to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to continue to certify the Iran nuclear deal may have failed and are now looking for other ways to try to salvage the two …
Iran devoted enormous energy to try to prevent Iraqi Kurds from holding their September 25 independence referendum, accusing the Kurdish leadership of recklessness and endangering the stability of the region. Having failed in that endeavor, officials …
There is no agreement among Iranian officials about how many people live below the poverty line in the Islamic Republic. Not only does this mean it’s impossible to get a clear picture of poverty, it also …
The Persian Gulf Oil Refinery workers warned against the non-payment of workers’ salaries and threatened to demolish the sites at the refinery, Track Persia reports. Unfortunately, most of the several thousand workers in the refineries …
For 40 days, 22 political prisoners mostly serving sentences for dubious political charges staged a hunger strike in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, 30 miles west of the Iranian capital of Tehran, The Hill writes. International intervention was literally …
An Iranian court has sentenced seven reformist politicians, including a brother of former pro-reform President Mohammad Khatami, to one-year prison terms and barred them from political and media activity for two years, a lawyer says, …
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, the former general manager of Al Arabiya News Channel, and former editor in chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, wrote an op-ed for Arab News, in which he advocated that in order to remove the …
Several members of parliament are contemplating to write a letter to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, proposing to amend the country’s constitution from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government. “The letter will …
The Amnesty International has expressed concern over the health condition of political prisoner Soheil Arabi who has been on hunger strike for 38 days. This organization demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the political …
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