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Iranian passport ranks near the bottom of the world's passport rankings
Based on the world's passport validity table for 2020, the Iranian passport ranks 71st and the American passport ranks 10th.
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Statistics Center: The country's employed population has decreased by 1.2 million people
The Statistical Center of Iran says that the employed population aged 15 and over was 23 million 542 thousand this summer…
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Iranian regime continues to ignore dangerous conditions of prisoners during COVID-19 pandemic; Farhad Meysami, political prisoner, infected with COVID-19
As the US State Department spokesperson warns about the dire prison conditions in Iran and calls for the release of political prisoners, reports...
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Labor activist Vale Zamani arrested in Tehran
Vale Zamani, a labor activist, was arrested by security forces in Tehran this morning, Tuesday, October 6, and taken to an unknown location…
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What the two "Australian hostages" didn't say about their detention in Iran
A year after Mark Firkin and Julie King were released from prison in Iran and returned to Australia,…
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UN: Release Nasrin Sotoudeh and other political prisoners due to the coronavirus crisis
On Tuesday, October 5, the United Nations called on Iran to immediately release Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist, and…
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Another corner of widespread government corruption in Iran revealed; $27 billion in exported foreign currency has not returned
At the same time as the exchange rate in Iran has increased sharply and the expectation of the return of foreign exchange earned from the export of goods, the organization…
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The hashtag "I bear witness" became popular on Twitter; Iranian users wrote about crimes and widespread human rights violations in Iran
Iranian Twitter users, using the hashtag Shahadat_Midham, have been reporting numerous human rights violations over the more than four decades of the republic's existence.
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