Iran-HRM – The International Labor Organization has declared June 12 as the World Day Against Child Labour to raise awareness and work to prevent child labor. The COVID-19 pandemic and the regime’s mismanagement of handling the crisis, have had a huge impact on people’s lives and livelihoods. The crisis has pushed a significant number of children into child labour in Iran. Already, there are …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must urgently clarify the fate and whereabouts of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish prisoner, after local authorities told his family that he had recently been secretly executed, Amnesty International said today. Hedayat Abdollahpour was sentenced to death in 2017 after a grossly unfair trial. On 9 May 2020, he was transferred from the central prison in Urumieh, in West …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s president said the country is looking to reopen under certain health guidelines.  Iranians wear protective face masks, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they drive with the metro, in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2020.  Photo by WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Ali Khara via REUTERS. President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran will seek to reopen …

PayvandNews – Iran’s minister of transportation says an initial deal has been reached with the neighboring Iraq to build a long highway that would ease traffic across the border and would help boost trade between the two neighboring countries. Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday that the 354-kilometer highway would connect the city of Mehran on the western Iranian border to …

Shabtabnews – On December 3rd, 2011, the Islamic Republic ordered its ‘cyber army’ to hunt, steal, and decrypt classified manufacturing blueprints of the Sentinel RQ-170 American spy drone. As result of which, for years later it boasted its prowess in successfully “reverse engineering” the manufacture of American drones. The  Sentinel RQ-170, which was built by Lockheed Martin and used by …

Radiofarda – Iranian media have reported that an oil worker in the oil-rich Khuzestan Province hanged himself on Wednesday after his repeated appeals to the contractor to pay his overdue wages failed. According to media and social media reports Omran Roshani-Moghadam who worked as a security guard at F19 oil well of Yadavaran oil field hanged himself at the site …

(AP) — Iraqi militia factions expected the usual cash handout when the new head of Iran’s expeditionary Quds Force made his first visit to Baghdad earlier this year, succeeding the slain Gen. Qassim Soleimani. Instead, to their disappointment, Esmail Ghaani brought them silver rings. For his second visit, Ghaani had to apply for a visa, something unheard of in Soleimani’s …

Radiofarda – Civil unrest has doubled since 2011 as 96 countries recorded a violent demonstration in 2019; as citizens protest on a range of issues, from economic hardship and police brutality to political instability, a global survey said on Wednesday, June 10. The latest Global Peace Index (GPI) released by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), also says global peace …

Radiofarda – The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East has said Iran is “struggling” with the coronavirus, trying to protect key officials and the military from the pandemic. “There’s significant penetration in Iran, and I think that penetration has extended even to the senior leadership,” Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Wednesday in an …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Central Bank Governor has said that Iran reserves the right to launch legal action against South Korea if the country’s banks refuse to unlock billions of dollars owed to Iran for oil exports, frozen in Korean banks for nearly two years. According to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday, Abdolnaser Hemmati has said that the actions of South Korean …