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Iran-HRM – Four representatives of the “Iran Poplin” weaving company in Rasht, north of Iran have been dismissed for protesting not receiving wages for the past 3 months. Workers of Iran Poplin Company protested recently protested against the nonpayment of their salaries in January, February and March 2018. Iran Poplin Co. engages in manufacturing and exporting dyed and printed fabrics …

Iran-HRM – Mehdi Ghamari Binisly, an Azeri activist who lives in Tehran, was arrested by security forces last week in relation to a case involving the publishing of an Azeri calendar. He has been taken to an unknown location. The calendar in question was in Turkish and various events, including the Mother Tongue Day and images of a number of …

Iran-HRM – Energy Minister Reza Ardakaniyan said that water quality was a topic that has been overlooked thus far. “To date, we have contaminated water resources with industrial, agricultural and household wastewaters. It’s not possible to continue this situation,” he added. “We are facing a crisis when it comes to providing water rights for wetlands and the environment… We are …

RFL/RE – This latest session of the Majlis explored the ties Iran and Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have with the five Central Asian states. The expanding competition, for example, between Iran and Saudi Arabia has reached Central Asia, opening up new opportunities and seemingly closing off other possibilities. RFE/RL’s media relations manager, Muhammad …

Al-Arabia – One of the books I bought from this year’s Riyadh Book Fair is “Four important letters exchanged between Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I and Oman’s Imam Ahmed bin Saeed” by Saudi historian Mohammed al-Zalfa. The book was published by Dar Belad AlArab. After explaining why he copied these documents from the Ottoman archive, al-Zalfa said: “Oman was powerful …