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Iran: Unhappy Workers

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iranian workers… have launched a series of strikes and sit-ins to protest what they regard as “systemic exploitation.” By the time of this writing, over 100,000 workers were on strike in 122 businesses in 35 cities, relatively small numbers yet significant for two reasons: the protests seem to be spreading and the strikes begin to affect the nerve-centers …

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Salahedin Majidi and Abdollah Khan Mohammadi Executed in Salmas

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Salahedin Majidi and Abdollah Khan Mohammadi, two men sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Salmas Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, two men were executed Salmas Prison on 6 May. Their identities have been established as Salahedin Majidi and Abdollah Khan Mohammadi. They were sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the …

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Iran’s female athletes raise voices over entrenched discrimination

Al-Monitor – As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris approach, Iran’s female athletes are speaking out publicly about the inequities in their professional journey, at a time the world is paying attention to the general trend of discrimination against women in Iran.   After Iran women’s national soccer team defeated Myanmar in April to make its way to the second round of the 2024 Olympic …

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Hunger striker Vahid Beheshti stops protest and is taken to hospital

thenationalnews – British-Iranian hunger striker Vahid Beheshti has “temporarily stopped” his protest outside London’s Foreign Office after being admitted to hospital. Mr Beheshti, who is campaigning to have Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps listed as a terrorists group, had gone 73 days with only water, coffee and sugar cubes.READ MOREKing Charles hosts anti-IRGC hunger striker Vahid Beheshti at Buckingham Palace His wife …

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EU condemns execution of Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Chaab

Al-Arabia – Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom condemned Saturday the execution of Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab, as the Iranian judiciary announced Chaab’s death sentence had been carried out after a conviction for “terrorism.” “The death penalty is an inhuman and irreversible punishment and Sweden, together with the rest of the EU, condemns its application in all circumstances,” Billstrom, whose country currently holds the …

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