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Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday said the protests in Iraq and Lebanon were financed by Gulf Arab countries, with petrodollars and organized by “intelligence services”. In a speech, Khamenei conceded that the demands of the protesters “are just”, but these should be addressed “within legal frameworks”. The popular protest movements in Iran and Lebanon have worried …

Radiofarda – The cash-strapped government of the Islamic Republic is reportedly planning to levy taxes on bank deposit interest income, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)-linked news agency, Fars reported. Fars published a document on Wednesday, October 30 that shows Iran’s State Tax Organization and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance have decided to amend the tax law to …

Radiofarda – A prominent labor activist and leader has been released today from prison in Iran on bail after ten months of incarceration following strikes and protests last year in the factory where he worked. Esmail Bakhshi was the representative of workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Mill in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, where workers began strikes last November …

Radiofarda – Widespread protests against harsher regulations to tighten state control over university students have forced Iran’s Deputy President, Laya Joneidi to promise amending the new restrictions. Hundreds of Iranian university students who have protested the decision believe that the new Disciplinary Rules will lead to police-state dominating higher-learning institutions across Iran. The new regulations, passed by the Supreme Cultural …

Radiofarda – The official institutions and bureaus that register marriage contracts based on ancient Aryan ceremonies and rites have been suspended, and sealed-off in Iran, the head of the Islamic Republic’s Union of Marriage and Divorce registration bureaus announced on Wednesday. The suspended bureaus amount to 34, and mainly located in the provinces of Tehran and Alborz, the state-run Young …