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Articles & Reports Corruption in Iran Economy Featured IRGC, Basij, Hezbollah & Quds Force Sanctions 

The Islamic Regime, not Sanctions, Responsible for the Medicine “Shortage” in Iran

August 19, 2019 Editor 188 Views Abbas Kebriaeezadeh, Agricultural Commodities, airports, allowances, big lie, Black market, broad authorizations, Central Bank of Iran (CBI), Chief of Staff, city of Bam, Clinton, corporations, drug, drug imports, drug market, earthquake, embezzlement, exceptions, extortion, flood victims, foodstuffs, Foreign Policy magazine, foundations, funds, GDP, good connections, healthcare budget, hospitals, Imports, institutionalized corruption, Islamic Parliament, luxury cars, luxury items, Mackenzie Institute, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Vaezi, Majles, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, massive flooding, Medical Devices, medical products, medication, medicine, minister of health, ministries, mismanagement, Mohammad Khatami, mouthpiece, Non-U.S. Persons, pharmaceuticals, pharmacies, platforms, primary role, prioritized, private citizens, Propaganda, racketeering, reformist, regime official, relief, reserved, shortage, state-owned, stockpiling, Tehran University, U.S. Treasury Department

The Free Iranian Staff   On August 14th, Foreign Policy magazine’s website published an article by Abbas Kebriaeezadeh, a pharmacology

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Articles & Reports Corruption in Iran Featured Human Rights IRGC, Basij, Hezbollah & Quds Force Social Damages in Iran Workers & Labor Activists 

Iranians held more than 260 protests in July

August 11, 2019August 11, 2019 Editor 204 Views Ahvaz Oil Company, Airplane Cooperation Company, Azad University, Caspian Institution, commercial areas, credit institutions, Damash Mineral Water Company, Defrauded creditors, Deniz Auto, Detained teachers, Fasa sugar cube company, Hamid Rahmati, health insurance, Hossein Kamangar, hunger strike, inalienable right, industrial towns, Iran’s Literacy Movement Organization, Islamic Parliament, job security, Labor and Social Welfare, Labor Day, low wages, Majles, Mansour Chupani, Mehdi Kokhian, Ministry of Cooperatives, Mohammad Habibi, Mohammad Pishbin, municipality workers, Northern Iran, paychecks, Peiman Mirzazadeh, placards, Planning and Budget Organization, privatization, railroad workers, Rajaie Shahr Prison, Ramak Auto, SAIPA, Sanandaj Intelligence Detention Center, Sepideh Ghalian, Shiraz Telecommunication Company, southwestern Iran, Urmia Central Prison

By Adena Nima Source: Iran News Wire Workers Workers staged 130 Iran protests in the month of July in 41 cities,

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Corruption in Iran Currency & inflation Economy Human Rights Industry IRGC, Basij, Hezbollah & Quds Force Sanctions The Regime Brass Workers & Labor Activists 

✻ Continuing Coverage on Strikes and Labor Protests in Iran: July 2nd thru July 30th

August 1, 2019October 3, 2019 Editor 170 Views a jury, a sit-in, administrators, Aghajari, Ahvaz Metro Project, ailments, Association of Retired Workers, back wages, Bandar Abbas, bankrupt, benefits, Booksellers Union, Borzou Roubakhsh, Caspian Sea, civil servants, collection system, compensation, construction workers, corrupt, Deputy Minister of Industry, destitution, disability care, Disabled people, Edalat Shares, embezzlement, employment status, factories, Fisheries Cooperatives Union, fishermen, Friday Prayer Leader, Gachsaran Oil and Gas University, Gilan province, government office, half capacity, Hamid Reza Rahmati, Hoveyzeh, humiliation, illegal fishing, imprisoned, inflation rate, Iran’s National Literacy Campaign, Iraq, Islamic Parliament, Jalil Ghafari, Jam newspaper, Judiciary, Khuzestan workers, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad county, Lali, Majles, malnourished, Markazi province, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Industry and Mines, Ministry of Labor, Mohsen Salehinia, municipal office, national health insurance, Nourabad, overdue wages, parliamentary elections, pensions, personal enrichment scheme, Petroleum Engineering and Development Company, picketing, Planning and Budget, politicians, poverty limit, privatization, Protest, provincial officials, public and private sector, public awareness, Qazvin, Railway workers, regime-controlled foundations, rental rates, retirees, retirement age, safety regulations, Sanandaj, sanitation, scab labor, severe recession, Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, Shadgan water and sewage department, Shahpour Ehsani Rad, Shiraz Telecom, Social Security, state-owned corporation, Statistics Center, Sugar factory, Tehran Metro, Tehran Pensioners Association, temporary contract basis, union leaders, waiting trial, Waste collectors

By The Free Iranian Staff This is The Free Iranian’s ongoing coverage of Iran’s national workers uprising;  for all previous reports

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Corruption in Iran Economy Human Rights Industry Workers & Labor Activists 

✻ Continuing Coverage on Strikes and Labor Protests in Iran: May 29th thru June 26th

June 30, 2019October 3, 2019 Editor 156 Views Abadan, Ahvaz, Asaluyeh, Azarbaijan Power Company, bankrupt, Bijan Zanganeh, Bushehr Province, campaign, cease operations, Chairman, charging rents, collective bargaining, Council session, current situation, cut expenses, diesel, Ebrahim Pirayesh, employees, empty promises, factory, farms, Fars News, firings, food shortage, foreign threats, Hajar Chenarani, hardline politicians, health insurance benefits, housing, Ilam, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Iranian Students Opinion Committee, Islamic Parliament, Karaj, landlords, Majles, management, maximum pressure, May Day protests, Metro stations, Minimum Livelihoods, Ministry of Education, Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, Nord Ivan steel factory, Oil Minister, Oil workers, pensioners, pensions, privatized, public rage, regime-controlled, regime-controlled newspaper Vatan’e Emrouz, Resign, Retired teachers, Sabalan Ardebil Power Plant, salaries, Social Security beneficiaries, South Pars oil field, spare parts, Special Economic Zones, Strikes, Tehran city council, Tehran Metro, Telegram account, the system, tires, truck drivers’ union, turmoil, unemployed, Union of Iranian Retirees, unpaid wages, villagers, wages, warehouses, Waste collectors, Workers House

By The Free Iranian Staff This is The Free Iranian’s eighth report on the ongoing national workers uprising; for all previous

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Corruption in Iran Human Rights Workers & Labor Activists 

Massive May Day Labor Protests in Iran

May 2, 2019May 10, 2019 Editor 676 Views Abbas Shams, Asadollah Soleymani, astronomical wealth, civil disobedience, downward spiral, electrical workers union, Free all imprisoned teachers, Hadi Soleimani, Hassan Saeedi, Hossein Zolfaghari, Iranian workers movement, Islamic Parliament, Javanmir Moradi, Kamyar Fakour, Keyvan Samimi, labor activists, Labor Day, Living conditions, Mahan Salehi, Majles, Mardas Taheri, Marzieh Amiri, minister of the interior, Mohammad Ali Aslaghi, Mohammad Falahi, Mohammad Javad Akbarein, Mohammad Khani, Nasser Moharramzadeh, peaceful protests, price hikes, Qassem Khalouee, Rasoul Bodaghi, Retired teacher, Reza Shahabi, Right to Live, Seyyed Mahdi Azimi, Seyyed Rasul Talib Moghadam, Soleimani Nejad, teachers' strike, unified campaign, Vahid Fereydouni

ISICRC Staff   May 1st, which is Labor Day in Iran and most other parts of the world, brought massive

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Articles & Reports Iran Terrorism 

From Khartoum to Tehran: Graveyard of Forlorn Hopes

April 28, 2019May 9, 2019 Editor 516 Views Abbasi Madani, Algeria’s National Islamic Front, Ali ibn Abi Talib's caliphate, American special squad, Ayman Rabi’ al-Zawahiri, General Omar al-Bashir, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hizb Islami, Hojat al-Islam Mahdi Karrubi, Ilych Ramirez Sanchez, Islamic history, Islamic Majlis, Islamic Parliament, Islamic Party, Khamenei’s manifesto, PAIC, Palestinian groups, Popular Arab and Islamic Congress, Pushtun tribes, Rached al-Ghannouchi, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Soviet Empire, Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi, The Jackal, the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisian Islamic an-Nahda, Venezuelan terrorist, Zahir Faryabi, Zeinalabedin Bin Ali

By Amir Taheri Source: Asharq Al-Awsat   Last month, the Islamic Republic’s “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei published his manifesto for

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Corruption in Iran Deforestation Featured IRGC, Basij, Hezbollah & Quds Force Water 

IN-DEPTH: The Catastrophic Floods in Iran

April 11, 2019April 14, 2019 Editor 758 Views basic necessities, Berlin Airport, Death to Khamenei, Death to Rouhani, deforestation, disaster relief, European Commission, exploitation of mines, Fatemiyoun, Flood in Iran, flood victims, Hashd Al-Shaabi, hectares of forests, Iranian Red Crescent, IRGC ground forces commander Mohammad Pakpoor, Islamic Parliament, Kharkheh Dam, Khorramabad, Lorestan, Poleh Dokhtar, Red Cross, Relief package, Shi'a Afghan forces

ISICRC Staff ?Please make your tax deductible donations for Iranian flood victims, by visiting the Norooz Foundation website.  In the

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Featured IRGC, Basij, Hezbollah & Quds Force 

MPs at the Islamic Parliament show IRGC bosses their “team spirit”

April 10, 2019April 12, 2019 Editor 518 Views Islamic Parliament, Majles

Yesterday’s announcement by Secretary Pompeo, of the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as foreign terrorist organization, spurs MPs

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Articles & Reports Featured 

Zarif’s Resignation and the Regime’s Salvation

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Editor 505 Views CNN, FATF, Guardian, Islamic Parliament, JCPOA, Khamenei, Mainstream Media, Majles, Pompeo, Rouhani, Soleimani, Velayati, Washington Post, Zarif

By Reza Parchizadeh As expected, the mainstream media interpreted Javad Zarif’s resignation as an indicator of the opening of a

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Social Damages in Iran 

Systemic Cruelty to Animals: Another Entry in the Khomeiniist Regime’s Catalogue of Abuses

November 12, 2018August 26, 2019 Editor 608 Views Abtin, Ali Tabarzadi, animal cruelty, Animal Protection Index, Animal Rights, animal shelters, Archangel Gabriel, Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, Bamdad'eh Jonoob, banning dog ownership, Cats, criminal profiling, Cruelty, Dog fighting, Dogs, fatwa, forbidden by Islamic law, haram, Heshmat Tabarzadi, Iran, Iranian film director, Iranian schools, Islamic judiciary, Islamic Parliament, Islamic precepts, Jafar Panahi, Majles, municipal authorities in Shiraz, najes, Pahlavi imperial family, personal-log, Sholeh Raoufi, state-launched violence, This Is Not a Film., Voiceless Animal Protection Institute, Zanjan, Zoroastrianism

By Banafsheh Zand   A shocking video showing the burnt bodies of about 300 stray dogs was posted to Twitter

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