News sources have reported that an Iranian priest was arrested by security forces in the town of Fouladshahr in Isfahan.
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‘100-Percent Iranian’ Kentucky Fried Chicken Opens In Iran
Amid growing tension between the United States and Iran and sanctions that ban U.S. companies from doing business with the Islamic republic, an outlet of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has opened in the Iranian city of Karaj.
Iranian workers facing layoff
The threat of a possible layoff hangs over the heads of 1,300 workers at Tabriz match factories due to rising energy costs and an increase in the smuggling of substandard matches.
Iranian Student Who Sewed Lips Together In Protest Arrested
Dariush Jalali, a student of Yasuj University who had sewn his lips together to protest against the pressure he had been facing over his activism, has reportedly been arrested.
Iranian opposition is boycotting and calling for free and fair elections
Washington, D.C. – United4Iran, a nonpartisan human and civil rights nonprofit organization, has issued a statement today outlining deep concerns about the escalating crackdown by the Iranian government on expression and assembly ahead of the March 2, 2012 parliamentary elections.
80 percent of Iranian workers live under poverty line
Freedom Messenger – The head of the Contract Labor announced the rate of a labor family’s expenses as 900,000 tomans [about 900 dollars]…
Iranian journalist sentenced to jail
Iranian journalist Mahsa Amrabadi has been sentenced to a prison term for the second time in the past two years.
Iranian internet users cut off from email
Iranian internet users are once again unable to access their email today.
Iranian protest leaders and one year of house arrests
Marking one year of house arrest for the Iranian opposition leaders, Behrouz Samadbeigi records the events that led to their unprecedented confinement and their ordeals of the past year.
Iranian regime tries political activist for propagating against government
The court trial for Alireza Rajayi was held on the morning of Wednesday February 15.