Iranian judiciary and security system have arrested more than 142 Kurdish political and cultural activists throughout Kurdistan areas during the last 3 months. Based on various reports from reliable websites, in mostly of the Kurdish cities…
AP - Iran's parliament is set to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over an economic scandal and his polices after the required number of lawmakers signed a petition Sunday, the latest salvo in a long battle between the…
Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi has declared that every Iranian province must establish at least one single-gender hospital. ISNA reports that Dastjerdi said: "Many provinces and universities have begun establishing…
In his weekly televised lessons aired on IRIB Channel 1, Iranian cleric Mohsen Ghara'ati blamed women for opposing polygamy and standing in the way of their husbands who wish to get a second wife. Hojat-ol-Islam Mohsen Ghara'ati is the head…
Recent statistics obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat confirm that 186 children and 98 women have been killed since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution on 15 March. The youngest Syrian child killed during the revolution was just 2 months old,…
Eleven Afghani workers kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered a child laborer in a region known as Pardis in the city of Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran. According to a report, on Saturday, October 22, 2011, an anonymous caller contacted the…
After Hossein Saleh Nejad, the former head of the Science and Industrial University Bassij Department was appointed as the head of the School of Architecture at this university, a wave of insulting treatments of students started at this…
Russia has sent a set of mobile radar jammers to Iran and is negotiating future deliveries that Moscow believes do not contravene the current UN sanction regime on the Islamic state, an official said Tuesday. The Avtobaza truck-mounted…
Three prisoners were hanged in three different prisons in Iran on October 24, reported the Iranian state media. According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, one unidentified prisoner was hanged in the prison of Ardebil (northwestern…
According to a study by Amir Erfani, entitled “Induced Abortion in Tehran, Iran: Estimated Rates and Correlates,” many women in Tehran obtain abortions, despite Iran’s highly restrictive abortion laws. This report says that approximately…
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