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Iranwire – At the end of April the US State Department published a report by Congress that revealed the net worth, as American officials understand it, of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and eight of his family members. The report estimated the Assad family net worth to be US$1 to 2 billion. The report remains incomplete because the State Department believes Al-Assad and …

Iranwire – Schools, universities, government offices and banks have closed their doors in the southwestern province of Khuzestan due to intense pollution and the air being thick with dust. According to observers, the level of particle pollution in the cities of Ahvaz and Shush currently has recently stood at 25 times the safe level. At the same time, a Ministry …

Iranwie – Behnam Mousivand, a jailed Iranian human rights advocate who went on hunger strike two weeks ago, has now been sent to hospital in a dire physical condition, fellow activists report. Atena Daemi, a children’s rights campaigner and recently-released prisoner of conscience, has been to hospital to visit Mousivand. She tweeted that he was running a fever, unable to speak and …

Iranwire – Supermarkets in the Iranian capital are receiving less than half the supply of cooking oil they stocked before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the president of Tehran Supermarkets Union has said. Iran is 90 percent dependent on imported oil for cooking and even before the war began in late February, oil prices had been steadily increasing ever since the reimposition of …

(HRW) – Iranian authorities have increased their crackdown against teachers organizing for their rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately and unconditionally release teachers detained for engaging in peaceful protests and labor organization. Emtedad News Agency reported that as of May 1, 2022, Iranian authorities have arrested at least 38 teachers across the country over the past two weeks. At least …