By Jubin Katiraie
According to ISNA, due to unemployment, coercion, and low wages, the Kulbars cross the border, import, and export goods. Hamshahri wrote that Kulbar turned to this job due to the lack of a suitable job with a fair income. The average monthly income of each Kulbar is reported to be 3 million Tomans.
By Pooya Stone
With the gradual increase in inflation in Iran since the beginning of 2020, the purchasing power of the people, especially the lower classes of society, has sharply decreased.
By Jubin Katiraie
One of Iran’s so-called international affairs analysts Siavash Fallahpour said: “The prelude to the Syrian war began with privatizations and rent-seeking;
By Pooya Stone
Abbas Ali Dorosti, Vice Chancellor for Health at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, announced the red situation in East Azerbaijan Province, north-west Iran, and said: “So far, about 1,500 members of the province’s health care staff have been infected with the coronavirus.
By Jubin Katiraie
On July 21, Iraqi Prime Minister Mostafa al-Kadhimi entered Tehran at the head of a delegation, including ministers of foreign affairs, oil, electricity, treasury, defense, health, and the national security advisor.
By Pooya Stone
Following the November 2019 nationwide protests and the Iranian regime’s bloody crackdown on hundreds of thousands of citizens who merely complained about gasoline price hikes, the gap between the society and the ruling system became visible more than ever before.
By Jubin Katiraie
According to the Statistics Center of Iran, the area of Iran’s forests in 1900 was about 19 million hectares, but this figure decreased to 14.4 million hectares by 2012, and in 2015 Iran’s forest areas shrunk to 10.7 million hectares and were destroyed by 43%.
By Pooya Stone
Local officials in Sarpol Zahab, Kermanshah, have ordered survivors of the November 2017 earthquake to leave their makeshift homes by Friday, July 24, with the mayor telling them that they are breaking the law by putting up these temporary homes.
By Jubin Katiraie
The Iranian government has a long history of demonizing dissidents, especially activist group the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and parliament-in-waiting the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which are the regime’s biggest threats to continued power.
By Pooya Stone
The 1988 massacre of Iranian political prisoners were a series of state-sponsored execution of political prisoners across Iran, starting on 19 July 1988 and lasting for approximately five months.
