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IRAN: FURTHER INFORMATION: ABUSE OF JAILED ACTIVIST MUST STOP: SEPIDEH GHOLIAN AND ESMAIL BAKHSHI

Amnesty – Imprisoned labour rights activist Sepideh Gholian and her family are suffering constant abuse and harassment by ministry of intelligence officials and prison authorities. Sepideh Gholian and fellow activist Esmail Bakhshi have been in prison since January 2019 in connection with their participation in peaceful protests. There are concerns about Sepideh Gholian’s health following a five-day hunger strike from …

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Zarif urges united nonaligned front against US

Al-Monitor – At a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement on Palestine in Baku, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke about the United States, Israel and the so-called deal of the century. Zarif urged the member states of the Non-Aligned Movement to “have a united front and not allow the Zionist regime to push the issue of Palestine to the margins.” While no …

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Iran population grows to 83.75 million: Statistical Center

PayvandNews – Iranian government’s main statistics agency has released updated demographic data for the country, saying the population grew by around 4.7 percent since the last census was carried three years ago to top 83.75 million in September 2019. A report published on Wednesday by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) showed that the Iranian population grew at a stable …

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Iran Through the Eyes of Female Photographers

Payvendnews – Behind the “veil of daily newspapers,” there are real faces of women—as revealed in the exhibition “My Iran: Six Women Photographers” at the Sackler Gallery. The photographs of their persistence in facing personal and political realities offer a female perspective over 40 years from the beginning of the Iranian Revolution to the present. In Newsha Tavakolian’s  life-sized looped projection, “Somayeh,” a teacher …

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Rouhani Besieged By Sanctions, Domestic Scorn And Loss Of Grassroots Support

Radiofarda – In his latest speech at a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani complained in the harshest tone he has ever used against his critics and those who he says obstruct his administration’s efforts to run the country. All Iranian presidents in the past 41 years have experienced a difficult last year in their second term …

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