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iranintl – Iran claimed Monday to have “successfully” launched a long-range ballistic missile from a warship, underlining the regime’s rising belligerence amid a regional crisis. “Nowhere is safe for those powers who seek to threaten our security,” IRGC commander Hossein Salami said in a thinly veiled threat to the United States and its allies, suggesting that Iran’s “ocean-liners” can get …

Iranwire – The Iranian authorities are not implementing the Law on Protection of Disabled Persons, claiming insufficient funds, even though six years have passed since its enactment. There are no accurate statistics on people with disabilities in Iran. The Welfare Organization says 1.6 million of them have been referred to this entity, but the real figure is believed to be …

RFL/RE – Almost six out of every 10 Iranians are neither employed or seeking work, while more than half of those who are employed also hold down a side job. Ghasem Rostampor, the director-general of entrepreneurship and employment planning at the Labor Ministry, told the Tasnim News Agency that 58.5 percent of the country’s population is considered inactive, which refers to …

Iranwire – Fifteen agents from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence raided the home of a Baha’i man, Babak Zamani, in the northern city of Qaimshahr on the morning of February 12, IranWire reports.  The agents had a search warrant in the name of Zamani’s wife, Maryam Zabihi,  Witnesses reported that the agents behaved aggressively toward Zabihi, while her son, Bahamin …

Armita Pavir’s voice trembles with emotion as she speaks from behind the walls of Tabriz prison. This university student has been on hunger strike for the past 17 days – her third over the past five months.  In an audio file obtained by IranWire, Pavir expresses her fears that the prison authorities might put into execution their repeated threats to transfer …