Radiofarda – As food prices soar to hyperinflation levels in Iran, authorities resort to arrests and trials of merchants, trying to slow down the process and to show the public they are confronting the crisis.
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Latest Official Stats In Iran Show Food Prices Reaching Dangerous Hyperinflation
Radiofarda – The Iranian government’s Statistical Center has announced the inflation rate for the year ending on February 20 as 42.3 percent.
Read More »Hijabs & Harassment: How Iran Soured Its ‘Sisters’ On The Revolution
Radiofarda – Forty years ago, Iranian women and girls of various political and social stripes helped to bring on Iran’s 1979 revolution to topple the shah.
Read More »Weakened by sanctions, Iran’s ‘aid’ to Lebanon reflects middle-aged delusions
Al-Arabia – The Persians have a saying, that “a doctor must first cure his own balding head”. The phrase refers to the human propensity of preaching virtues to others, while personally disregarding them. This idiom seemed particularly applicable to Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who stirred up a storm during his recent visit to Beirut, when he cheekily remarked …
Read More »Iran Test-Fires Cruise Missile From Submarine In Military Drill
RFL/RE – Iran has test-fired a cruise missile from a submarine during annual naval exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, according to state media.
Read More »Iran Warns Of ‘Options’ To Neutralize U.S. Oil Sanctions
RFL/RE – A senior Iranian official has said Tehran has many options to neutralize the reimposition of U.S. sanctions on its oil exports, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported on February 23.
Read More »Iran: Mounting Persecution of Christians
gatestoneinstitute – “We created a people’s army to defend the country and also help in emergencies, but it turned into a monster.” — Mohsen Sazegara, on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which he helped establish.
Read More »Putin to Join the Mullahs’ Deception Club
gatestoneinstitute – “Talk to Iran” was tried by successive US administrations, starting with Jimmy Carter’s. In 1980, the mullahs signed an accord with Carter not to seize any more American hostages in exchange for unfreezing Iranian assets blocked by Washington after the 1979 capture of the US Embassy in Tehran. Yet, to this day, Iran has always held American hostages, …
Read More »For Iran, the latest Sochi summit was not just about Syria
Al-Monitor – On Feb. 14, the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey held a summit in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi to discuss the latest developments in Syria and coordinate their activities in the war-torn country.
Read More »Concert Cancellations Continue in Mashhad Due to Intolerance by Religious Conservatives
CHRI – A concert by the popular Persian pop band Hoorosh was canceled by judicial order an hour before show time on February 20, 2019, in the city of Firouzeh, northeastern Iran, after a powerful local ayatollah pressured the authorities.
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