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Norooz Celebration Turns Into Disaster: Iraq Ferry Capsizes, Killing At Least 94

VOA – At least 94 people were killed when an overloaded ferry capsized on the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul Thursday.  Officials said more than 180 people were on board, celebrating the Kurdish New Year, Norooz, and Mother’s Day. Most of the victims were women and children struggling to swim in the fast-moving current. TRT World✔@trtworld UPDATE: …

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Latest Report Says Annual Inflation Close To 50 Percent In Iran

PayvandNews – At the end of the Iranian year on March 20, inflation figures heralded a tough time ahead for ordinary Iranians, as price rises neared 50 percent in the last 12 months. From March 2018 to March 2019, goods and services became 47.5 percent more expensive, in what is the worse inflation number in the past five years, Iran …

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Political Prisoner’s Family Faces Homelessness in Iran Due to State Confiscation of Properties

CHRI – The family of two political prisoners is facing homelessness now that they’ve received notice that their family home and only remaining property will be confiscated by the Iranian government, their son Iman Sadeghi informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on March 15, 2019. “In addition to our house in Kashan, the authorities have confiscated our …

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Iran Executions: Man Hanged at Shirvan Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was executed at Shirvan Prison for murder charges last Saturday. According to the IHR sources, on the morning of Saturday, March 13, a prisoner identified as Salman Azarpanah, was executed at Shirvan Prison. Shirvan is a city in North Khorasan Province of Iran. A well-informed source told IHR, “Salman was in prison since …

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Iran brings in New Year by focusing on domestic production

Al-Monitor – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has declared the upcoming Iranian New Year “Pickup in Production.” This means at the very least that future speeches and slogans will have a heightened focus on the state of the economy, which is currently struggling in part due to US sanctions that were reimposed after the Donald Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive …

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