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VOA – In an attempt to boost Iran’s flagging population growth, the government approved a controversial law in 2021 that further tightened restrictions on medical abortions and banned the free distribution of contraceptives. Now, officials have expressed alarm about the number of illegal abortions being carried out in the country, suggesting government restrictions have pushed more women to terminate unwanted …

Iranwire – Iranian security agents have arrested three female teenagers and two men from the southern city of Lar over their alleged involvement in chemical attacks on schools, IranWire has learned. An informed source told IranWire that the three students are being subjected to intense pressure to confess to carrying out poisoning attacks, despite their protestations of innocence. The source …

Iranwire – IranWire has obtained a confidential document showing that the education authorities in the north-western Iranian province of Kurdistan have demoted dozens of teachers who supported anti-government protests last year. The multi-page decree reveals that the province’s General Department of Education formed an “Emergency Committee” on November 7 following an order from the Supreme National Security Council to punish …

Iranwire – Iran’s former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, has visited the spiritual and administrative heart of the Baha’i community in Haifa, as he wrapped up his five-day trip to Israel. Baha’is in Iran have faced persecution and discrimination since the 1979 Islamic Revolution because of their religious beliefs. Pahlavi, the son of the late Mohammad Reza Shah and an exiled …

VOA- A Sunni imam said Friday during an Eid al-Fitr sermon in Zahedan, Iran, that people have a right to protest and the government should listen to their demands. In an audio file published on his Telegram channel, Molavi Abdul Hamid was quoted as saying the people’s desire is “the release of political prisoners” and the government should consider the …