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RFL/RE – Iranian officials have reported an increase in the overall number of child marriages last year compared to 2019. According to the Statistics Center of Iran, the marriage rate of girls aged 10-14 last year increased by 10.5 percent compared to 2019. It says 31,379 girls in that age bracket were married in 2020 compared to 28,373 cases the …

Iranwire – Striking workers across Iran have called on the government to pay delayed wages and insurance benefits, and to provide immediate covid vaccinations, but officials have yet to respond to these demands despite widespread media coverage. The general strike of oil industry workers, ongoing industrial action by Haft-Tappeh factory employees, strikes elsewhere in Khuzestan province, and at least fourteen other actions, …

Iranwire – Municipal officials in the city of Nazarabad, Alborz province recently demolished a makeshift one-room shack while the residents – a grandmother and grandchildren – were still inside. No shelter or alternative accommodation was provided for the family. This is an IranWire citizen journalist’s report from the scene. *** The mother screams while the four children huddle around her, …

Iranwire – Recently there’s been a lot of discussion about budget reform in Iran: it’s in the news, debated in parliament, and a preoccupation for Ebrahim Raisi’s cabinet. The problem is quite simple. Iran’s budget revenue and its expenditure are out of synch. For example, for the 2021-2022 budget, oil revenues were calculated on the basis of the export of two and a half million barrels of oil …

nypost – On Nov. 4, 1979, militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. It was hell for the captured Americans, and Jimmy Carter’s inability to extricate them helped doom him to a one-term presidency. The way things are shaping up in Kabul, that national humiliation is being recreated on a far, far bigger scale — it is no …