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Over half the Iranian working class are below the poverty line
Figures released by Iran’s labor organizations indicate that most working class people live below the official poverty line, and do not earn enough to support their families.
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Saudi dynasty should leave power: top Iran cleric
Saudi Arabia's ruling Al-Saud dynasty should give up power, a hardline senior Iranian cleric said Friday, warning that the fate of Egypt's toppled president Hosni Mubarak awaits Saudi King Abdullah.
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Iranian women increasingly wary of getting married
How women view marriage has been complicated by a change in social attitudes and a lack of consensus as to what women’s responsibilities are, and to what the terms ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ mean when applied to their role in society and in…
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Iranian Lawmakers Consider Retaliation for Sanctions
Iranian lawmakers have drafted an emergency bill calling on the Foreign Ministry to expel the British ambassador to Tehran after Britain joined other Western powers to impose fresh sanctions on Iran over that country's disputed nuclear…
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UN Resolution Ramps up Cross-Regional International Pressure on Iran's Human Rights Crisis
The draft resolution was adopted with 86 votes in favor, 32 against, and 59 abstentions. Mohammad Javad Larijani, Iran’s highest human rights official, spent this last week in New York defending Iran’s human rights record and addressed the…
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Labors Protest on the New Draft Proposals
On November 20, 3000 workers staged a sit-in by the gates of the Iranian parliament to protest the proposed new changes to the labor law.
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UK orders banks to halt Iran business, U.S. move
Britain ordered its financial institutions on Monday to halt all business with Iranian counterparts, including the central bank, and the United States is also expected to tighten sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program.
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Iran Authorities Threaten Radio Farda Listeners Via SMS
The government in Tehran is doing its best to stamp out free thinking through text messages. “Dear citizen, based on information we received you have fallen under the influence of the anti-security propaganda of media connected with foreign…
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Persecution of Iranian defence lawyers is blatant
Amnesty International deplores the statement at a UN press conference on 16 November 2011 by Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of the Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, that “[n]o lawyer is in prison because he is a…
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Iran says it may use oil as political tool
Iran could use oil as a political tool in the event of any future conflict over its nuclear program, Iran's energy minister told Al Jazeera television.