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VOA – Iran has seen renewed poisonings of schoolchildren around the country in the first seven school days of the new Persian year after a holiday hiatus, leaving many Iranians angered but no closer to knowing who is behind the poisonings and why. In the latest poisonings that have mostly affected Iranian girls’ schools, VOA’s Persian service observed credible reports of incidents …

Al-Monitor — Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stressed regional cooperation in restoring peace to Afghanistan, as he met in Uzbekistan with counterparts from China, Russia and Pakistan for the latest security situation under the Taliban. During the four-way meeting with China’s Qin Gang, Russia’s Sergey Lavrov and Pakistan’s Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday, Amir-Abdollahian said that what Afghanistan needs is “regional …

RFL/RE – Thousands of Iranian workers have signed a protest letter sent to President Ebrahim Raisi against an increase that would see the minimum wage rise by only about half of the current inflation rate. In the letter, which was signed by almost 20,000 workers, a request was made to immediately annul the increase and instead approve a new pay …

Iranwire – Well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Qoliyan, who is awaiting trial for “insulting” the Islamic Republic’s leader, has been subjected to physical abuse and threatened with rape while in custody, a relative told IranWire. Qoliyan was re-arrested last month, hours after she posted on Twitter a video of herself without the mandatory hijab shouting slogans against Supreme Leader Ali …

Iranwire – In 2018, dozens of courageous Iranian women protested the Islamic Republic’s repressive mandatory hijab laws by removing their headscarves in public and by placing them on sticks. The defiant protesters, who became known as the “Girls of Revolution Street,” were accused of “encouraging corruption” and received severe punishment for that. Two Iranian men, Reza Khandan, the husband of …