About 10 million of Iran’s 67 million people who are over the age of six can neither read nor write, according to a literacy official. Also, according to UNESCO, Iran’s 86th among the world’s 164 countries in literacy. The head of Iran’s literacy program announced these figures and added, “15 percent of Iranians continue […]
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Interview with Abdolreza Tajik, journalist: Coverage of disaster news in Iran is emotional
Iranian journalist Abdolreza Tajik is based in France. He is a winner of the Reporters without Borders’s 2010 press freedom award. He agreed with an interview with Khabarnegaran.info to elaborate how news coverage of disasters like hunger strikes, executions, death and legal sentences.
Iranian greens fear disaster as Lake Orumieh shrinks
A ship left high and dry on the solidified salt of Lake Orumieh, which has lost half its surface area. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP The fate of a shrinking salt lake is the last thing you would expect football fans to chant about – but Iranians are doing all they can to stop a looming ecological […]