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RFL/RE – Authorities in Tehran have approved use of the coronavirus vaccine produced by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson as Iran faces a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections. “The Johnson & Johnson single-dose corona vaccine has been approved,” Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration, said on September 16. Shanehsaz said the Russia-developed single-shot Sputnik Light …

Iranwire – After years of relative silence, a group of Iranian women athletes have told their stories of sexual discrimination and violence in sport. On Monday, at 8:30 pm Tehran time, IranWire hosted the “Sports Room” event on Clubhouse, offering women a space to talk about their experiences. For close to two hours, they told their painful stories, many of them for the first time, from …

Iranwire – A message makes sense in context: we analyze and understand it based on the message itself, and on the background information we have to hand. But when no context is available – or provided – then we can misunderstand a message or it can even become meaningless. We see this often now because of social media. Many users publish posts …

CHRI – With Iran’s new academic year, beginning on September 23, 2021, just around the corner, teachers have been protesting in front of Parliament and the Plan and Budget Organization in Tehran to voice anger and frustration over low pay and serious challenges including state repression against students and teachers. Teachers are currently the most organized labor sector in the country and have been demanding the full implementation …

Al-Monitor – President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran arrived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe Thursday to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as well as sideline meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.       Upon departure from Tehran, Raisi addressed reporters on the “importance of regional cooperation,” a fundamental component of his stated foreign policy. As a hard-line …