The automaker Runiran has laid off 200 workers, according to Iranian labour activist Parvin Mohammadi. ILNA reports that after two months of a complete halt in production, the automaker has begun work again but with a large decrease in its workforce. The laid off workers had been employed by the plant anywhere between two […]
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Tabriz tractor-makers protest industry department
The head of the Tabriz Workers’ House says tractor-manufacturing workers are staging protests in front of the Industry and Mining Department of Eastern Azerbaijan Province. ILNA reports that the workers are protesting their employer’s failure to pay their wages for more than eight months. Karim Sadeghzadeh reported that 250 workers at the Tabriz Tractor […]
Iran’s Culture Minister Questioned In Parliament
Culture Minister Ali Jannati has been questioned in the Iranian parliament by a hard-line lawmaker over some of his comments regarding the closure of newspapers and the solo singing of women. Hamid Rasayi accused Jannati of showing tolerance toward the insulting of religious sanctities and promoting laxness over religious principles. Rasayi said Jannati had […]
New Population and Family Plan Would Stifle Women, Says Iranian Civil Society
More than 650 Iranian citizens and civil activists have issued a statement objecting to the “Comprehensive Population and Family Excellence Plan” currently on the Iranian Parliament’s agenda, arguing that the plan would place undue restrictions on women’s employment and educational opportunities. The statement refers to the plan’s “regrettable articles” about the conditions of women, […]
Amnesty International : Iranian hunger strikers’ health failing
Hunger striking Sunni men from Iran’s Kurdish minority are in grave danger as their health deteriorates after 64 days on hunger strike. They have been on hunger strike in protest at their death sentences and the conditions in which they are held. Jamshid Dehghani, his younger brother Jahangir Dehghani, Hamed Ahmadi and Kamal Molayee, […]
Why Iranian Sufis Do Not Believe in Tehran’s ‘New Diplomacy’
The ascension of Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani supposedly represented a “period of hope.” That may be true for Western negotiators hoping to spend more time in Geneva, but not for the Sufis and other religious minorities of Iran, whom the regime in Tehran continues to repress. Sufis, let us first observe, are not the […]
British delegation due in Tehran on Tuesday for three-day visit
Iranian Parliament announced that the British parliamentary delegation led by former British foreign minister Jack Straw will arrive in Tehran on Tuesday January 7. IRNA reports that according to the announcement, the British delegation will be in Tehran for three days and will meet with a number of political and economic officials as well […]
Top negotiator denies new supervisors will oversee nuke talks
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and senior nuclear negotiator, says he has no knowledge of a new supervisory committee that will oversee nuclear talks. Araghchi told Iranian media that he has not been informed of such a committee, adding that from the beginning it has been the Supreme National Security Council that’s filled […]
Basij Commander Admits Forces Shot at 2009 Protesters
After more than four years of denying that Basij and other security forces took direct shots at the 2009 post-election protesters, last week’s statements by the unnamed Commander of District 117-Neynava of IRGC’s Tehran Region, admitting for the first time that the men on top of a Basij base in Tehran shot at the […]
Zahra Rahnavard : Associating the Green Movement with Foreign Powers is Denying the Facts
The Leaders of the Green Movement remain steadfast despite the recent wave of attacks by the regime’s propaganda machine.January 4th, 2014 [Kaleme]- Despite the severe and unprecedented recent wave of attacks by the media outlets associated with Iran’s ruling establishment against the detained leaders of the Green Movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard’s […]