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Al-Monitor – Experts agree that the promotion of knowledge-based startups would be a suitable remedy to address the intensifying unemployment in Iran. In fact, with youth unemployment at 27.5%, the Iranian authorities need to look for opportunities to create jobs for the country’s young, educated and tech-savvy population. While in recent years a considerable growth has been recorded in information technology (IT) …

aljazeera – After a driver asked a passenger to put on her headscarf, some Iranians began boycotting popular ride-hailing app Snapp.by Saeed Jalili 12 Jun 2019 Iran’s law requires women to cover their hair and wear loose garment to hide their body and skin [Majid Saeedi/Getty Images] A move to boycott a popular Iranian ride-hailing application has gained momentumamong social …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he is not going to respond to U.S. President Donal Trump’s message which was conveyed to him by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a meeting in Tehran on Thursday June 16. Voicing his defiance and distrust at the same time, Khamenei said “I have no response and I will not …

Radiofarda – Japan’s top government spokesman says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s high-stakes trip to Iran is intended to help de-escalate tensions in the Mideast — and not specifically mediate between Tehran and Washington. The remarks by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga to reporters were apparently meant to downplay and lower expectations amid uncertain prospects for Abe’s mission. Abe was to …

Radiofarda – Riyadh accused its arch-foe Tehran on Thursday of ordering a Yemeni rebel missile strike which wounded 26 people at a Saudi airport and warned of “grave consequences”. “The continuation of the Iranian regime’s aggression and reckless escalation, whether directly or through its militias, will result in grave consequences,” deputy defence minister Prince Khaled bin Salman tweeted. Yemen’s Huthi …