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Iran's Statistical Center announced the unemployment rate in this spring at "12.6 percent."
The Statistical Center of Iran's report on the unemployment rate in the spring of this year shows that 12.6 percent of the potentially active population…
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About 40 percent of Iran's urban population is marginalized and homeless.
Migration from rural to urban areas has become widespread over the past four decades. This has led to the phenomenon of marginalization in…
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Several Iranian and Afghan "ISIS" members arrested in Mashhad
The deputy prosecutor of Mashhad announced that 21 Iranian and Afghan "agents" of the Islamic State group, ISIS, who were planning to carry out...
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“The economic participation rate of women in Iran is 12 percent”
The deputy head of the Economic Affairs Office of the Markazi Province governor said that the rate of women's economic participation in the province is between 6 and 7 percent...
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Iran and Total sign major oil investment deal; Iran's share is 19.9 percent
The National Iranian Oil Company and a consortium led by France's Total have signed the first oil contract based on the new contract model for…
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Iranian journalist's wife released on 300 million IDR bail
Saeed Seif, journalist and director of the Iran Watch website, has announced the release of his wife, Asal Esmailzadeh, on bail of 300 million…
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Hundreds of telecommunications company employees strike in several Iranian cities
Hundreds of Iranian telecommunications company employees protested on Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11, in the cities of Mashhad, Hamedan, and Shiraz.
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Two political activists on hunger strike in Tabriz and Evin prisons
Siamak Mirzaei and Habib Sasanian, two Turkish political activists who have been in Evin and Tabriz prisons for more than two weeks…
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