By Pooya Stone
The foreign exchange market, gold, coins, and stocks have become short-term stay for cash flows in Iran. Money as if no one wants to keep it, and most prefer to own all sorts of liquid assets instead.
By Jubin Katiraie
An Iranian labor activist was flogged by the Iranian authorities yesterday and taken to begin his jailed sentence without being given medical attention.
By Pooya Stone
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli said in a state TV interview on Saturday that 200 protesters were killed by the suppressive security forces during the November 2019 uprising that spread to at least 140 cities.
By Jubin Katiraie
Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, one of Iran’s main figures in repression and warmongering, and one of the heads of the theft and looting in the Iranian regime were appointed as the speaker of parliament on 28 May, in a hasty move.
By Pooya Stone
Massive fires have swept the Khaeez protected forest in southwest Iran since Thursday, killing many of the animals there, and even coming back to life on Saturday, just hours after local officials said they’d been extinguished.
By Jubin Katiraie
Iran saw an increased number of large protests over the past few days with people from all occupations and social classes demanding their rights.
By Pooya Stone
Recently, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) acknowledged its goal to reduce the inflation rate to 22 percent in the current year. In other words, it intends to reduce the 41-percent inflation, which was announced in March, by 20 percentage points.
By Pooya Stone
In Iran, the gap between economic classes is widening every day. A few citizens with close ties with the government are becoming richer as the rest of the society is rapidly moving below the poverty and misery lines. Due to the government’s economic failures and systematic corruption, poverty and high prices continue to grow.
By Jubin Katiraie
Iran’s economy is getting smaller and sinking into a quagmire as the ayatollahs persist on their costly provocative projects like testing ballistic missiles and illicit nuclear activities.
By Jubin Katiraie
Iranian state media these days constantly carry news about the officials admitting to the crimes and the corruption by the regime’s elements.
By Pooya Stone
One of the crimes of the Iranian government in recent years has been the destruction of homes of poor people, who are not able to buy or rent any place for living.
By Jubin Katiraie
On March 23, the first Iranian tanker flotilla carrying 43 million liters of gasoline and refinery equipment departed Bandar Abbas port in southern Iran toward Venezuela. It was supposed to arrive at Venezuelan state-run PDVSA’s ports on May 24, after a 14,000-kilometer trip within 45 days.
By Pooya Stone
The United States’ State Department has now announced the end of the sanctions waiver that covers all Iranian nuclear projects created under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and sanctioned two Iranian nuclear officials in a statement on Wednesday.
By Jubin Katiraie
Some 38 medical workers were fired in one southwestern Iranian city after they held a protest rally to demand their wages that had not been paid for three months.
By Pooya Stone
Following the protests of the oppressed and poor people of Gheyzanieh in Ahvaz to the water lack and the rise of popular anger and hatred because of the brutal repression of the people’s protests on this subject, government officials and state media confess about the suffering and the anger of the people and express their fears about the possibility of the expansion of the protests.
By Jubin Katiraie
A 13-year-old Iranian girl was beheaded in her sleep by her father in a likely so-called honor killing, after attempting to elope with her boyfriend.
By Jubin Katiraie
Iranian political prisoner Akbar Bagheri has been hemorrhaging for three weeks now, which has made him seriously weak, but he is also in danger of catching coronavirus (COVID-19) because the authorities at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary are holding him on a ward with suspected patients.
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