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Iranwire – Students at the Faculty of Psychology of Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University have decided to boycott classes to protest the security measures recently put in place by the university’s administration. According to Iran’s Union of Student Councils, the students refused to enter the classrooms on November 21, vowing to defend their “most fundamental rights.” On November 20, independent student sources, …

Iranwire – Former political prisoner and civil activist Hossein Ronaghi says he has been summoned by the Iranian judiciary to face new accusations. On November 21, Ronaghi posted an image of the summons on the social media platform X, accompanied by a caption stating: “I have been summoned to Branch 1 of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office regarding new charges and …

Iranwire – Maryam Shokrani, the economic editor of Iran’s Shargh newspaper, has announced that a new legal case was filed against her. Shokrani said on Instagram on November 22 that the case was referred to Branch 1058 of the Culture and Media Prosecutor’s Office “without investigation.” The journalist also said she hadn’t been given a chance to present her defense. …

Iranwire – Growing dissatisfaction among Iranian healthcare professionals is posing a serious threat to the country’s healthcare system, which is facing an increasingly pressing shortage of nurses. For years, nurses in Iran have voiced their frustrations about overwhelming workloads, inadequate compensation and a shortage of employment opportunities, but their demands have largely remained unanswered. The misallocation of resources by the …

Iranwire – IranWire tracked 56 instances of hate speech across social media over the past week and found that 49 of these were dedicated to broadcasting violent antisemitic language that attacked both Israel and Jews around the world. Posts by social media influencers with thousands of followers, calling Jews “animals” and that “killing Jews” was the same as “killing animals,” …