Life in Iran Today

Iran’s water crisis

Reuters: As a child, Mohammad Rahmanpour spent his summers swimming in Lake Orumieh in northwestern Iran - then the largest in the Middle East....

Iran reports its first death from MERS virus

AP: The IRNA news agency quoted Health Ministry official Mohammad Mahdi Gouya as saying the virus killed a 53-year-old woman in Kerman, a city in...

More than a million alcohol drinkers in Iran: report

AFP - More than a million Iranians drink alcohol, a participant in the country's First World Congress on Alcohol Abuse was quoted Tuesday as saying. The...

Iran’s brain drain is the West’s gain

Businessweek: Tens of thousands of Iranians have left the country of 77 million in recent years, largely for Europe and North America, in search of...

Iran students gear up solar car for US challenge

AP: Clouds may still linger over relations between Washington and Tehran, but that's not stopping a group of Iranian students and their teachers from...

Japan contributes funds to help save shrinking Iran lake

Bloomberg: Japan is contributing funds to help save Lake Urmia, one of the Middle East’s largest lakes that has shrunk by 85 percent the past...

Brain drain blights Iran’s economy as investors wait in wings

Bloomberg: “Easily 90 percent of them have gone overseas,” the 29-year-old software developer said, reflecting on a middle-class flight that has seen many of the...

Suicide rate among Iranian youth on the rise

Daily Sabah: Every day 11 people committed suicide in Iran, according to country's official statistics. Around 3,125 people committed suicide in Iran last eight months,...

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Political Prisoner Zahra Shahbaz Tabari Has Once Again Been Sentenced to Death

Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, was once again sentenced to death by...

Experts Warn About Declining Dairy Consumption and the Risk of Expanding Malnutrition in Iran

With dairy prices rising again and consumption declining in Iran, experts have warned about the spread of anemia, osteoporosis,...

Burial Costs in Tehran Increase by Up to 50% as Inflation Soars in Iran

A new resolution by the Tehran City Council shows that the cost of cemetery services in the capital—from transporting...

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Burial Costs in Tehran Increase by Up to 50% as Inflation Soars in Iran

A new resolution by the Tehran City Council shows...

Iran’s Regime Confirms Death Sentence of Political Prisoner Amin Farahavar

The death sentence of Amin Farahavar, supporter of PMOI...

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