The Dezfool Friday Mass Imam has announced that female musicians should not perform at public concerts. IRNA reports that at a meeting of the Public Cultural Council in Dezfool, Hojjatoleslam MohammadAli Ghazi Dezfooli announced that religious leaders in the city are concerned about music concerts being held in Dezfool. “Having classical music concerts in […]
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Asphalt workers arrested after protests over firing
Twenty workers at the Toos Asphalt Company have been arrested, according to the Ardkan governor, in the wake of protests on Tuesday against the firing of their union representative. ILNA reports that Ardkan Governor Ahmad Kamali criticized the workers’ protests of recent days, saying management has filed a complaint against a number of workers […]
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad summoned to Bandar Abbas’s Revolutionary Court
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, was summoned by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court in the city of Bandar Abbas for questioning over his case.According to Majzooban Noor, after the indictment was issued against Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, a new trial date was set down for […]
IAEA Visits Iranian Uranium Mine
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited an Iranian uranium mine for the first time in nearly a decade. The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said its three-person team of inspectors went to the Gchine mine, near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization confirmed the inspectors […]
In Annual Address, Obama Attacks Rich-Poor Divide, Maps Out Afghan And Iran Plans
President Barack Obama has used his annual State of the Union address to announce what he called “concrete, practical proposals” to reduce the gap between rich and poor in the United States. He has also touted progress under his administration in bringing America “closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades” and pushed […]
Statistics show Iran’s cancer rate rising fast
The chairman of the Cancer Research Center of Iran, Mohammad Esmail Akbari, says 41,000 Iranians die of cancer each year and Iran’s cancer rate is among the world’s fastest rising. ISNA reports that Akbari spoke on Wednesday January 20 at a meeting marking Cancer Prevention Week, saying that 85,000 new cancer cases are reported […]
Qaraveh governor calls for meeting over unpaid wages
Two hundred steelworkers from the Zagros Steel Company gathered in protest on Wednesday January 29 to once again demand their unpaid wages. The workers demonstrated in front of the Qaraveh Governor’s Office, demanding five months worth of back pay and insurance premium payments, ILNA reports. The report indicates that workers’ representatives are meeting with […]
Mahmud Dowlatabadi’s book telling story of Hasanak the Vizier published
Firuzi Publications has recently released the latest work by the renowned Iranian author Mahmud Dowlatabadi on the story of the chancellorship of Hasanak the Vizier based on Persian historian Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi’s “Masudian History”. The book entitled “The Chancellorship of Emir Hasanak” and an audio CD, which contains Dowlatabadi’s narration of the story, were published […]
Intelligence Ministry Reviews Cases of Iranian Expats for Return
Iran has established a secretariat for the Committee for the Return of Expat Iranians, inside Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary, and Iranian Expatriate Affairs Hassan Qashqavi said in an interview with Tadbir News Website. “The Committee’s meetings are regularly held at the Intelligence Ministry, and the Intelligence Ministry has […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (28-01-2014)
Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran1. Fatemeh Karroubi, the wife of Mehdi Karroubi publicised a letter directing at public describing her husband’s physical condition. She indicated that yesterday, after a difficult 9-day treatment period and two operations Mehdi Karroubi was discharged from the hospital and was transferred to a secure building of the […]