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Al-Monitor – Mounting economic pressure on Iranians has been accompanied by an increase in suicides, especially among the workforce. According to the the Iranian daily Etemad, at least 23 workers have committed suicide in the nine months since the start of the Iranian new year on March 21, 2022.   All the deceased were contractual or daily male workers, says the report, noting that …

Al-Arabia – British foreign minister James Cleverly said on Saturday his country had imposed sanctions on Iran’s Prosecutor General in response to Tehran’s execution of Iranian-British dual national Alireza Akbari. Sanctioning the Prosecutor General of Iran, Mohammad-Jafar Montazeri, “underlines our disgust at Alireza Akbari’s execution,” Cleverly wrote on Twitter. “The Prosecutor General is at the heart of Iran’s use of the …

Al-Arabia – French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in Paris on Saturday over the execution of a British-Iranian national accused of spying, the ministry said in a statement. “He was also warned that Iran’s repeated violations of international law cannot go unanswered, particularly with regard to the treatment of foreign nationals whom it arbitrarily detains,” the statement added. Iran’s …

Al-Arabia – An Iranian imam has blamed a lack of rainfall across the country on women not wearing hijabs following months of nationwide protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police detention. Amini died in September following her arrest by the notorious Tehran morality police for an alleged breach of the Islamic Republic’s strict hijab dress code for women– …

Iranwire – Days after Charlie Hebdo published caricatures of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, officials in Iran continue to fume against the French satirical magazine as well as France’s government itself. The cartoons were published in last week’s issue as part of a competition launched in support of the women-led protests that have rocked Iran for nearly four months. …