Radiozamaneh – Demand-based protests of Iranian workers are no longer only about increasing wages, the betterment of job security or less exploitation but more focused on maintaining job opportunities, receiving past due wages, and calls for release of the arrested labor activists. This is mainly because an increase in unemployment and poverty has dramatically changed the status quo as far …

CHRI – The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) have called on Iranian authorities to release detained workers’ rights activists and journalists including Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan. Letters by the ITUC and AFL-CIO were sent to Iranian leaders one month after a group of Haft Tappeh sugar mill workers in the city of …

CHRI – Wildlife conservationists Niloufar Bayani and Sepideh Kashani have been detained in Iran without due process along with six other conservationists since January 2019. Niloufar Bayani and Sepideh Kashani, two of the eight wildlife conservationists detained in Iran since January 2018, began a hunger strike on August 3, 2019, a source with knowledge of their cases told the Center for Human Rights …

CHRI – Mojgan Keshavarz has been sentenced to 23.6 years in prison while Monireh Arabshahi and her daughter Yasaman Ariyani have each been sentenced to 16 years in prison for peacefully campaigning against Iran’s mandatory hijab law. All three women were charged with “encouraging people to corruption and prostitution,” “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state.” Keshavarz …

PayvandNews – Iran’s hard-liners have spared no opportunity to attack President Hassan Rouhani and his team of nuclear negotiators ever since Tehran clinched the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA) with major world powers back in 2015. To those relentless critics, the US administration’s pullout from the pact last year brought a moment of triumph. They accused Rouhani of refusing to …

PayvandNews – Iran’s birth rate has been declining since last year up to now, which was unprecedented over the past three decades, head of committee on population studies affiliated to the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution has stated. Iran’s declining birth rate(cartoon by Firoozeh Mozaffari) “The number of births in our country is drastically decreasing,” IRIB news agency quoted …

Shabtabnews – Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh ‎, born on 13th October 1927, in Beydokht, Gonabad, Iran, also known by his spiritual title of Majzoub Ali Shah, is the spiritual leader or the Qutb of the Ni’matullahi (Sultan Ali Shahi) Gonabadi Order in Iran, which is the largest Sufi order in Iran.[ Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh, is a distinguished member of the global …

Radiofarda – The World Resources Institute’s (WRI) latest report says that Iran, along with Israel, Lebanon, and Qatar, are struggling with an “extraordinary water crisis.” The three are among the most water-stressed countries, according to the new data, consuming an average of 80% of their available water resources every year. Under these circumstances, “even small dry shocks – which are …

Radiofarda – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration and the central command of U.S. forces in the region (CENTCOM), have warned against hacking and infiltration of navigation systems (GPS) of commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman. The MARAD (Maritime Administration) warned that “Vessels operating in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf …

Radiofarda – The commander of Iran’s revolutionary guards (IRGC) says he is certain the United States does not want a war with Iran as a new conflict will pose an all-out threat to Israel.” Speaking in Kermanshah in Western Iran, General Hossein Salami said Iran is engaged in a full-fledged confrontation with the big powers in the world. He also …