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Iranwire – Flooding caused by torrential rains cut roads in the western Iranian province of Lorestan and triggered the evacuation of residents living around a dam on April 13. The flooding waters broke the gates of the Kamandan dam in the city of Azna, pushing the authorities to move nomads living around the structure and residents of Kamandan village to …

Iranwire – Prominent Iranian political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraei has been sentenced to seven years in prison and banned from leaving the country for two years on charges of “gathering and collusion” and “propaganda against the regime.” On April 13, the Tehran Revolutionary Court also banned Iraei from staying in Tehran after her release and from joining political parties or …

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 …