PayvandNews – The Iranian minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare has said that the country has a potential to earn $7 billion in revenues through attracting one million health tourists on a yearly basis. Relative wallet-friendly services can be considered as the main advantage of medical tourism in Iran, Ali Rabiei said in an address to an international conference held …

Guardian – Parks exclusively for women are popping up in Iranian cities, but critics are divided over whether this is just another ploy to keep them hidden in public Iranian women practice parkour skills at a park in Tehran. Iranian women practice parkour skills at a park in Tehran. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Cities is supported by Rockefeller FoundationAbout this content …

RFL/RE – The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has posted a video threatening new attacks in Tehran and calling on young Iranians to rise up against their country.

RFL/RE -Reuters reports that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will travel to Vienna this month to discuss Iran’s nuclear activities with officials at the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency.

RFL/RE – Iranian police have detained dozens of young people at a pool party near the central city of Isfahan that authorities say involved dancing and alcohol, state media report. The TV news website Iribnews.ir on August 9 said provincial forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and local police arrested 64 “half-naked” teenagers of both sexes at the party, …

CHRI – Fifty-three workers of Iran’s Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro Industrial Company who have been peacefully demanding back pay and benefits since July 2017 have been summoned without charge to the courthouse in Shush, Khuzestan Province. A statement by “a group of oppressed Haft Tappeh workers” released on August 7, 2017 said the vice president of the company, Siamak Afshar, had provided a list of …

CHRI – Almost three years after he was released, prominent labor activist Reza Shahabi has returned to prison to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence to prevent the judiciary from seizing the home of a person who had posted bail on his behalf. The Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company has condemned the authorities for coercing Shahabi, …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of Alireza Tajiki who was arrested as a child, said Amnesty International today, after learning that he was transferred to solitary confinement this morning and is due to be executed in less than 24 hours in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison. This is an utterly shameless act by the Iranian authorities Magdalena …

Al-monitor – The Iranian economy consists of three distinct sectors: public, private and semi-state — which includes religious, revolutionary, military foundations and cooperatives, as well as social security and pension funds. Experts agree that as a result of flawed privatization processes in the past three decades, the ownership of top governmental enterprises has been transferred to the semi-state sector. Consequently, gradually the semi-state sector has become the …

  lobelog – Last week, the Iraqi Shia cleric and the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr paid an official visit to Saudi Arabia and met with Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the power behind the throne.