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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US Sanctions Global Network Supporting Mahan Air and IRGC

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Thursday, July 30, that its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)...

Retirees Keep the Flame of Civil Protest Alive in Iran

Retirees in Iran are now forced to take to the streets in the scorching heat of summer and the...

United States Launches Major Attack on Iranian Regime Targets

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) says the latest strikes were a response to missile attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard...

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Iranian Regime Proxy Forces Face Decline After War with United States

For years, one of the favorite expressions used by...

Death Sentence Issued for Iranian Political Prisoner Amirhassan Monfared

Amirhossein Akbari Monfared, a 27-year-old political prisoner held in...

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New York Times: The Obama administration said Friday that...

U.N. nuclear watchdog to ratify Iran aid cut

Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body is this...