iranintl – The price of lamb in Iran has increased by around 60% in the past 12 months as basic food items continue to become beyond the reach of the average family. According to Dideban-e Iran news website, the price per kilo has doubled in the last year to 6,200,000 rials ($11). Afshin Sadr-Dadras, the CEO of Iran’s Central Union of Livestock, announced in …

iranintl – Pro-Palestinian student protests in the US are making headlines in Iran, as the regime and its media continue to bet on political trouble overseas to make up for lost legitimacy at home. The ongoing encampments on campuses across the US have featured on the cover pages of many Iranian dailies in the past few days, triggering a considerable …

iranintl – In recent days, politicians and academics in Iran have continued to highlight inefficiency, mismanagement, and negligence in President Ebrahim Raisi’s government. Some politicians such as pro-Ahmadinejad lawmaker Ahmad Alirezabeigi who cannot believe the scale of chaos in the Raisi administration are adamant that there are infiltrators in the administration who sabotage government’s initiatives. Others see the root of the problem …

RFL/RE – The Iranian military on April 28 presented a new attack drone designed to fly into targets and explode, like the kind used by Russia in the war in Ukraine. According to the state Tasnim news agency, the new Iranian drone — which has not yet been publicly named — is similar to the Russian Zala Lancet drone, which …

Iranwire – Ordinary people are bearing the brunt of escalating tensions between the Islamic Republic and Israel. “Fearing being labelled as spies, we gather information about the condition of children in Israel through various intermediaries. “Even a simple greeting to friends and family must undergo several layers of obfuscation before reaching its intended recipient, ensuring that it remains unknown that …

Iranwire – More than 2,000 Iranian workers lost their lives due to work-related incidents last year, officials have said. Ali Ziaei, head of the crime scene investigation group at Iran’s Forensic Medicine Organization, reported 2,115 work-related fatalities in the past year. This represents an alarming 11.3 percent increase compared to the previous year. “Falls from height” were the leading cause …

Iranwire – Authorities of the Islamic Republic executed four more prisoners over the weekend as death penalties continue to rise in the country. The Iran Human Rights Organization reported that three inmates were executed on April 27 in Tabriz Prison for drug-related offenses. The inmates were identified as Amir Moharrami, 36, Davoud Namyari, 33, and Sohrab Hokmabad.  Mohammadi was convicted two …

Iranwire – Over 300 Iranian musicians have condemned the death sentence given to rapper Toomaj Salehi, calling it cruel and unprecedented and demanding his immediate release.  They called Salehi “the trailblazer of the silenced voices and the just aspirations of a generation of Iranians,” while urgently calling for the annulment of his “inhumane sentence” of execution. In a statement published on Sunday, …

Iranwire – Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a writer and Islamic scholar detained in Evin prison, has detailed her distress due to “torture” and lack of medical attention in a letter addressed to the United Nations fact-finding mission about Iran.  She wrote in the letter, “For more than 40 days, I have been brutally and violently arrested by agents under the order of …

Iranwire – Parisa Salehi, a journalist and student activist, was moved to Kachouei Prison in Karaj on Sunday to begin her jail term. Her sister, Parinaz Salehi, shared the news on social media, stating, “Today, my sister Parisa Salehi, a journalist and master’s student in economics at the University of Tehran, was transferred to Kachouei Prison to start her sentence.” …