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iranintl – Bijan Zanganeh, Iran’s former oil minister, has made bold assertions regarding Iran’s potential to significantly increase its oil production, despite minimal investments and limited access to technology. Iran’s crude oil production stood at an estimated 3,163,000 barrels per day as of January 2024, showing a slight decrease from December 2023’s output of 3,168,000 barrels per day. This is notably lower …

Iranwire – A United Nations fact-finding mission has held the Islamic Republic responsible for the “physical violence” leading to Mahsa Amini’s death and said its forces committed crimes against humanity during the suppression of protests. The UN report outlines criminal acts starting September 16, 2022. These offenses have a long history parallel to the emergence of the Islamic Republic, but …

Iranwire – Helaleh Elyasi, 22, a victim of child marriage, took her own life on March 8 as a result of enduring relentless beatings and domestic violence inflicted by her husband. At 17, her family forced her to marry a man twelve years older. Since then, she has suffered many kinds of abuse at his hands, according to an Iran-based …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities are preventing Hamzeh Savari, a political prisoner held in Ghezelhesar prison, near Tehran, from receiving necessary medical treatment, IranWire reports.  Savari, one of the longest-serving political prisoners since 2005 with a life sentence, was diagnosed with a Baker’s cyst behind his right knee five years ago.  Due to deliberate delays by prison authorities in getting him …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has opened a court case after a video capturing a tense confrontation between a young woman and a cleric went viral.  The footage shows a woman without a headscarf seeking medical attention for her child at a clinic in central Qom. The cleric is seen filming her with his phone. The incident quickly escalates, …