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Iranwire – A doctor in Iran’s Lorestan province has had his clinic sealed off and his medical license revoked for treating patients for free, IranWire has learned. Dr. Yaser Rahmanirad had also offered pregnant women referrals for prenatal screening from his clinic in Khorramabad. The Iranian government has recently moved to restrict patients’ checking for fetal abnormalities, as part of …

Iranwire – Iran’s Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Setad-PV) has published a 119-page document detailing the Islamic Republic’s hijab policy, and the rationale behind a recent government campaign to enforce the veiling of women more strictly and with a greater degree of violence. Entitled the “Hijab and Chastity Project”, the policy was apparently sent last winter to …

Iranwire – Almost half of Iranian young people who took part in a recent survey said they would leave the country if given the opportunity, and most Iranians said young people did not see prosperity in their own futures. The telephone survey by Washington-based Stasis Consulting took in the views of 1,246 residents aged 18 and above between July 26 and 29. …

Iranwire – The IRGC’s Intelligence Organization (IRGC-IO) has announced a total ban on contact or collaboration with Belgium-based filmmaking NGO the Close Up Initiative. In an announcement on Wednesday, the IRGC-IO accused the Initiative of receiving “material and spiritual aid from the government of Israel”. It had been blacklisted, the Guards claimed, due to “the revelation of the true nature …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “Whenever they (Islamists) disagree with a woman, they accuse her of treason, threaten her with rape and torture, and bully her family.” — Ghada Oueiss, Lebanese journalist, to Lebanese television presenter Dima Sadek’s 1.1 million followers on Twitter, after she received death threats for criticizing the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie; Twitter, August 14, 2022. “Get out of …