By Pooya Stone
The water crisis in Iran refers to the problems which are due to water scarcity in Iran. Water scarcity can be a result of two mechanisms: physical (absolute) water scarcity and economic water scarcity, where physical water scarcity is a result of inadequate natural water resources to supply a region’s demand, and economic water scarcity is a result of poor management of the available water resources.
By Jubin Katiraie
Hundreds of Iranians have visited medical centers in Ahvaz, in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, suffering from respiratory problems after the first seasonal rains were mixed with air pollutants.
By Pooya Stone
The Iranian authorities, in the central prison of Karaj, have executed a young prisoner for a crime he allegedly committed at the age of just 16.
They executed 21-year-old Saeed Mohammadi on Friday, October 25, but, as with previous cases, the execution has not been published in the state-run press and media. This is because the Iranian government likes to bury stuff that makes them look bad.
By Pooya Stone
On Thursday, the Iranian government came under renewed pressure from human rights advocates after authorities announced that they had carried out a sentence of amputation on a prisoner convicted of multiple counts of theft.
By Jubin Katiraie
Iranian farmers in the Kharsagan district of Isfahan gathered on Saturday to protest a plan by officials and insiders to transfer water from the local Zayandeh Rud River to their steel mill and factory.
By Jubin Katiraie
Police in Iran arrested 52 people during a raid on a mixed-gender party in the north-eastern city of Mashhad, according to the state-run ROKNA news agency.
By Pooya Stone
The spread of poverty among the people in Iran is a topic that is frequently discussed by the media and government experts. The catastrophe of poverty is so bad, that poor people are now posting ads about their needs, including the need for food.
By Pooya Stone
Instead of answering the question of why students were left without a book for 20 days at the start of the school year, Ahmadreza Amini, the Director-General of Supervision and Distribution of Educational Materials in Iran, first outlined the process of textbook printing, and finally cited several factors, while hiding the main cause of this situation which is corruption by Iranian officials.
By Pooya Stone
Iran’s Vice President Es’hagh Jahangiri recently claimed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei agreed to all outstanding resolutions of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) over Iran’s financial transactions and demanded the ratification of the two FATF bills still being held up in Iran’s Guardian Council and Expediency Council.
