By Pooya Stone
On May 8, Dr. Mohammad Reza Mahboub-Far, a social pathologist, revealed surprising truths about the Iranian people’s conditions and the state of the poverty line in Iran. “In May 2019, the poverty line was announced at 8 million tomans [$506]. Regrettably, today, the poverty line for a family of four has approached nearly 9 million tomans [$539],” ROKNA quoted Mahboub-Far as saying.
By Pooya Stone
The Iranian authorities have sealed shut 147 shops and arrested three people in several provinces across the country for “not following Sharia law” during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
By Jubin Katiraie
Despite Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani’s misconduct and concealment, the Coronavirus’s death toll in Iran is rising sharply.
By Pooya Stone
In Iran, given the systematic corruption and mismanagement, workers flagrantly suffer from lack of basic rights in comparison to laborers in other countries. Meanwhile, many of them do not receive their low wages and suffer from livelihood pressures.
By Jubin Katiraie
Since April 30, when German authorities sanctioned the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah, Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC) commanders started attacking Germany with ironic retorts.
By Pooya Stone
According to a 2017 World Bank development report, “systematic corruption” means the private use of public resources. In 2019, the organization Transparency International ranked Iran 130 among the world’s 180 countries for such corruption.
By Pooya Stone
In an interview with the Iranian state-run Jahan Sanat daily on Thursday, May 7, the head of Iran’s Sociological Association announced the inefficiency of the government in the fight against the coronavirus.
By Pooya stone
An increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Iran’s south-western province of Khuzestan has worried people.
By Pooya Stone
Iranian teachers from various cities and provinces held a protest outside the Iranian parliament in Tehran on Monday to demand the cancellation of entrance exams for teaching universities.
