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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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Child Laborers: The Silent Victims of Poverty and Inflation in Iran

On June 15, the state-run Shargh newspaper published a report on child labor titled "Childhood on a Work Shift,"...

Iran’s Regime Executes Political Prisoners Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saedi

Iran's regime hanged two young men, Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saedi, in the early hours of Tuesday, June 16,...

Iran’s Healthcare System on Verge of Crisis as Nurses Migrate En Masse

The crisis of nursing staff shortages in Iran, driven by the migration of nurses, has once again come into...

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The United States and Iran’s Regime Reach Agreement to End War

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Maryam Rajavi: France and Europe Must Stand With the Iranian People’s Demand For Freedom

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