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Iranwire – Kamal Hadianfar, traffic chief for the police’s NAJA special forces unit, has said that women will be “definitively” dealt with if they ride a motorcycle. On Tuesday, October 19, Hadianfar told the Iranian media that only men’s names could appear on motorcycle licenses. As such, he said, no woman could legally drive one.   “This issue needs to …

Iranwire – Predictions on the future price of the dollar in Iran – or even concrete indications of the inflation rate – are seismic enough news that they often come without further explanation. Recently Iranians were left with the impression that if sanctions continue, the price of the dollar by 2027 might be as much as 285,000 tomans. For context, it currently …

Iran-HRM – The right to freedom of expression in Iran has always been severely restricted. The arrest of critics and dissidents, prison sentences against rights activists, crackdown on protesters, severe censorship of the social media and the press, and crackdown on any dissent are just part of the repression on the freedom of expression in Iran. The extent of the …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, headed a high-level military delegation to Islamabad last week at the invitation of his Pakistani counterpart Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa. Marking a new phase in military ties between both neighbors, the trip held special significance as it took place at a time when the region is going through major geopolitical …

Al-Monitor – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the United States has “fled” Afghanistan and is currently counting its “last months” in Iraq as well. Underlining Washington’s regional “defeats,” Hossein Salami added that US “plots” in Lebanon and Syria have also failed. The Iranian general, known for his ferocious anti-West rhetoric, was speaking at a “martyrs’ graveyard” in …