By Pooya Stone
On May 14, Fars news agency provided a report about free trade zones in Iran and questioned, “Do free trade zones benefit the people, or do they benefit ‘others’?” The Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-owned media outlet next mentioned how influential individuals and entities in the governing system are profiteering from these free trade zones and revealed a part of systematic corruption in the Islamic Republic.
By Pooya Stone
Despite the current risk of the coronavirus and the ongoing risk of violent suppression by the government, Iranians from various occupations have held protest rallies in several cities across Iran to protest their dire living conditions.
By Jubin Katiraie
Prisoners at Urmia Prison in Iran set fire to their blankets and the “secure section” of the facility on Tuesday as part of their protest over fears of contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19).
By Pooya Stone
That smuggling in Iran is organized by the regime itself is nothing new, and that this regime has destroyed Iran’s economy and production in the past 40 years is not new too.
By Jubin Katiraie
At least six protests over economic woes were held by Iranians across the capital and the northwestern and south-western provinces on Tuesday.
By Pooya Stone
Authorities from the Iranian prison system have finally acknowledged, in a statement on Sunday, that many prisoners in Khuzestan Province are infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19).
By Jubin Katiraie
Anti-government protests started again in Iraq as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with security forces in Baghdad on Sunday. The protests follow the appointment of Mustafa al-Kadhimi as Prime Minister, bringing an end to months of relative calm.
By Pooya Stone
A female political prisoner has revealed that the authorities are intensifying pressure on female political prisoners by transferring them to Qarchak Prison in Varamin, the notorious women’s prison that she is held in.
By Jubin Katiraie
The Iranian authorities have made the children of two political prisoners homeless by confiscating their homes.
