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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Rising Dairy Prices Send New Shock to Lives of People in Iran

The state-run Hamshahri newspaper published a report on May 23 regarding a new wave of price increases in dairy...

Italian Parliament Conference Condemns Executions in Iran, Voices Support for NCRI

Italian lawmakers and human rights advocates gathered at the Italian Parliament on May 21 for a conference with Maryam...

The Collapse of Investment in Iran, the Shutdown of Production, the Downward Spiral of Life

The collapse of investment in Iran means the halt of production, widespread unemployment, capital flight, the destruction of job...

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40 million Iranians Below Poverty Line

Iran’s economy entered the year 2026 while many economists...

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