Iran International
July 9, 2022
July 9, 2022
July 29, 2022
Iran leader bans import of U.S., UK COVID-19 vaccines, demands sanctions end
By Parisa Hafezi
Reuters
January 8, 2021
Reuters
January 8, 2021
'There isn't a single stretcher left' in Iran as 'apocalyptic' wave of Covid-19 hits
Iranians are facing a fourth wave of Covid-19 and it is shaping up to be the worst since the start of the pandemic. According to official figures, there are no beds left in life support units anywhere in Iran. And there are no beds available in any units of the 100 hospitals in Tehran, the capital. With no hope of rapid, widespread vaccination any time soon, healthcare workers are at crisis point.
By Alijani Ershad
France 24
The Observers
April 29, 2021
Iran facing its deadliest coronavirus surge after banning import on US vaccines
Ayatollah Khamanei banned US and UK vaccine imports in January.
By Guy Davies
ABC News
August 12, 2021
Iran: Government Mismanagement Compounds Covid-19 Crisis
Vaccine Prohibitions, Poor Transparency Undermining Response
Human Rights Watch
August 19, 2021
Iran's COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Mission Critical
By John Calabrese
Middle East Institute
August 17, 2021
Middle East Institute
August 17, 2021
Iran confronts coronavirus amid a 'battle between science and conspiracy theories'
Sanctions, distrust, and misinformation hamper pandemic response
By Richard Stone
Science
March 29, 2020
Iranian authorities revoke approval for MSF coronavirus treatment center
MSF remains ready to deploy its emergency team and inflatable 50-bed hospital elsewhere in Iran or to other countries urgently needing support.
Doctors Without Borders
March 24, 2020
Iranian Officials Stole More Than $1 Billion in Humanitarian Coronavirus Funds, Pompeo Says
By Adam Kredo
The Washington Free Beacon
March 23, 2020
The Washington Free Beacon
March 23, 2020
Iran's Covid death toll may be four times the government's official tally, says top doctor
Iran's doctors are urging the government to take decisive action, citing "unacceptable mortality rates."
By Dan De Luce and Leila Gharagozlou
NBC News
Oct. 28, 2020
Guidance on the Sale of Food, Agricultural Commodities, Medicine, and Medical Devices by Non-U.S. Persons to Iran
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Office of Foreign Assets Control
July 25, 2013
Office of Foreign Assets Control
July 25, 2013
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/iran_guidance_med.pdf
Extract
"The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) is issuing this Guidance in response to inquiries it has received from medical suppliers and financial institutions with regard to the humanitarian exceptions to sanctions on Iran. As we have stated in previous guidance, the U.S. maintains broad authorizations and exceptions that allow for the sale of food, medicine, and medical devices by U.S. persons or from the United States to Iran. U.S. sanctions laws provide similar allowances for sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices to Iran by non-U.S. persons."
Extract
"The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) is issuing this Guidance in response to inquiries it has received from medical suppliers and financial institutions with regard to the humanitarian exceptions to sanctions on Iran. As we have stated in previous guidance, the U.S. maintains broad authorizations and exceptions that allow for the sale of food, medicine, and medical devices by U.S. persons or from the United States to Iran. U.S. sanctions laws provide similar allowances for sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices to Iran by non-U.S. persons."
Clarifying Guidance on Humanitarian Assistance and Related Exports to the Iranian People
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Office of Foreign Assets Control
February 6, 2013
Office of Foreign Assets Control
February 6, 2013
July 28, 2022
Researchers say Iran's doing nothing to protect young people from addiction
Addiction among young Iranians is worrying experts who say that as confusion and inconsistency characterize the country's handling of the malady.
Al-Monitor
June 10, 2022
Torture and humiliation reported norm at Iran's rehab facilities
By Alijani Ershad
The Observers
February 9, 2021
The Observers
February 9, 2021
Number of drug addicts in Iran 'doubles' in six years
Rocketing Taliban opium production in neighbouring Afghanistan is fuelling epidemic, heath officials say
The Independent
June 26, 2017
Iran's growing drug problem: 'No walk of society is immune'
By Rahim Mostaghim and Shashank Bengali
Los Angeles Times
December 19, 2016
Los Angeles Times
December 19, 2016
Drug abuse in Iran rising despite executions, police raids
By Ali Akbar Dareini
Associated Press
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 12, 2015
Associated Press
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 12, 2015
Hooked in Iran, where addiction rates are world's highest
The UN drug office estimates that 2.2% of the population are addicts
By Lara Marlowe
The Irish Times
June 17, 2014
July 27, 2022
Sex workers in Iran
The Regime's Denial Means They Have Little Access to Support
By Fayrouz Ramadan Zada
Majalla
May 7, 2021
Experts say generation gap leading cause of runaways, prostitution in Iran
Many turn to prostitution as a means to financial independence and liberation from strict societal norms. Most girls active in the Tehran sex trade are high-school age
The Guardian
October 10, 2014
Inside modern Iran, where porn and prostitution are rampant
By Larry Getlen
New York Post
August 30, 2014
New York Post
August 30, 2014
2021 Trafficking in Persons Report: Iran
U.S. Department of State
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
July 26, 2022
Iran Loses Highly Educated and Skilled Citizens during Long-Running "Brain Drain"
By Hassan Mahmoudi
Migration Policy Institute
April 22, 2021
Migration Policy Institute
April 22, 2021
Conservative Website Says Next President Must Tackle Iran's Brain Drain
By Maryam Sinaiee
Iran International
May 29, 2021
Iran International
May 29, 2021
Iran's brain drain: The impact of poverty and inflation
By Hossein Beizayi
Iran News Wire
November 1, 2021
Iran News Wire
November 1, 2021
Goodbye, genius: How Iran's best and brightest are leaving the country
As hospitals, universities and tech companies struggle to fill highly-skilled positions, Iranian smugglers say business is booming
Middle East Eye
November 27, 2021
July 25, 2022
Statistics Suggest Half Of Iranians Living In Poverty
By Maryam Sinaee
Iran International
October 8, 2020
Iran International
October 8, 2020
Spiralling poverty in Iran adds to pressure on regime
By Najmeh Bozorgmehr
The Financial Times
January 25, 2021
The Financial Times
January 25, 2021
Deepening Poverty Threatens the Social Contract in Iran
By Sara Bazoobandi
The Arab Golf States Institute in Washington
October 22, 2020
The Arab Golf States Institute in Washington
October 22, 2020
July 24, 2022
A brief review of destruction of environment in Iran in four decades
Iran Human Rights Monitor
June 5, 2022
June 5, 2022
Iran's water is running dry. Now its water woes are worsening.
By Sahab Bahar
Atlantic Council
IranSource
December 13, 2021
Atlantic Council
IranSource
December 13, 2021
Thousands of Iranians protest over dried-up river
By Borzou Daragahi
The Independent
November 19, 2021
The Independent
November 19, 2021
Iran, Islamic Republic of - Cost Assessment of Environmental Degradation
The World Bank
June 30, 2005
https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/401941468284096627/iran-islamic-republic-of-cost-assessment-of-environmental-degradation
Extract
The objective of this report is to provide an estimate of the cost of environmental degradation in Iran. Despite the difficulties involved in assigning monetary values to environmental degradation, such estimates can be a powerful tool to raise awareness about environmental issues and facilitate progress toward sustainable development. It is hoped that this study will provide an instrument for policymakers to better integrate the environment into economic development decisions. In 2002, the annual cost of environmental degradation in Iran was estimated at 4.8 to 10 percent of GDP, with a mean estimate of 7.4 percent (equivalent to US$8.4 billion or IRR 67,300 billion).
June 30, 2005
https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/401941468284096627/iran-islamic-republic-of-cost-assessment-of-environmental-degradation
Extract
The objective of this report is to provide an estimate of the cost of environmental degradation in Iran. Despite the difficulties involved in assigning monetary values to environmental degradation, such estimates can be a powerful tool to raise awareness about environmental issues and facilitate progress toward sustainable development. It is hoped that this study will provide an instrument for policymakers to better integrate the environment into economic development decisions. In 2002, the annual cost of environmental degradation in Iran was estimated at 4.8 to 10 percent of GDP, with a mean estimate of 7.4 percent (equivalent to US$8.4 billion or IRR 67,300 billion).
Iran Sentences Eight Environmental Activists On Charges Of Spying For U.S.
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
February 18, 2020
Radio Liberty
February 18, 2020
Iran: Release eight wildlife conservationists following unfair trial on trumped-up spying charges
Amnesty International
March 5, 2019
March 5, 2019
How Iran is destroying its once thriving environmental movement
Iran once boasted one of the greenest governments. But persecution, paranoia, and war have sunk the Middle East’s most vital conservation programs.
By Peter Schwartzstein
National Geographic
November 12, 2020
July 22, 2022
Iran's Largest Steel Company Caught in Billion-Dollar Corruption Scandal
By Henry Pope
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
August 25, 2022
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
August 25, 2022
Radio Farda Exposé On IRGC Corruption, Infighting Raises Ire Of Iranian Authorities
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Radio Farda
February 18, 2022
Radio Farda
February 18, 2022
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part I: The Ones That Got Away
By Masoud Kazemi
Iran Wire
January 27, 2022
Iran Wire
January 27, 2022
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71184/
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part II: Buying Off the Intelligence Ministry
January 31, 2022
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71211/
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part III: The General (Non-)Inspection Office
February 1, 2022
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71216/
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part IV: Sanctions-Dodging and the IRGC
February 1, 2022
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71220/
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part V: The Irancell Hustle
February 2, 2022
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71224/
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part VI: The Partner Who Fled to Canada
February 7, 2022
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71254/
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part VII: The Regime's Favourite Fat Cats
February 7, 2022
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71263/
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part VIII: Career Swindler's Takings Stashed in UK and Canada
February 7, 2022
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part IX: A Veteran Minister's Greed
February 9, 2022
Under the shadow
Illicit economies in Iran
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
October 2020
Fighting corruption or just more political infighting in Iran?
By Tahereh Hadian-Jazy
Atlantic Council
September 5, 2019
Atlantic Council
September 5, 2019
Record corruption scandal puts spotlight on Iranians in Iran, US
The revelation of perhaps the biggest corruption scandal in Iranian history has exposed domestic political fault lines and is already reverberating as far away as Washington, DC.
By Rohollah Faghihi
Al-Monitor
March 11, 2019
Nepotism, Corruption, and Fraud: Business as Usual among Iran’s Political Elite
As economic conditions in Iran worsen, Iranians are shifting some of the blame from the West to domestic causes, including corruption and economic mismanagement.
By Sara Bazoobandi
The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
September 10, 2018
Why Iran must legislate away rampant corruption
By Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
Al-Monitor
August 30, 2018
Al-Monitor
August 30, 2018
Corruption among Iran's business elites
In Iran, billionaire Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption. He once had close ties to political circles. The justice system just wants to close the case and has no interest in further explanation.
Deutsche Welle
March 14, 2016
Corruption trial uncovers links between money and Iranian politics
A corruption trial is exposing this closed society's links between money and politics
By Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Bijan Namdar Zangeneh
Financial Times
December 2, 2015
December 2, 2015
An Administration Plagued by Fraud and Corruption
By Muhammad Sahimi
PBS
Frontline
Tehran Bureau
March 30, 2010
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/03/ahmadinejad-and-his-men-embodiments-of-fraud-and-corruption.html
PBS
Frontline
Tehran Bureau
March 30, 2010
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/03/ahmadinejad-and-his-men-embodiments-of-fraud-and-corruption.html
July 20, 2022
How protesting the hijab put a 24-year sentence on Saba Kord Afshari
By Sharmeen Somani
Global News
September 7, 2019
https://globalnews.ca/news/5867031/hijab-protest-sentence-saba-kord-afshari/amp/
Global News
September 7, 2019
https://globalnews.ca/news/5867031/hijab-protest-sentence-saba-kord-afshari/amp/
Saba Kord Afshari is only 20 but has received 24 years prison sentence
My Stealthy Freedom
Campaign against compulsory hijab in Iran
August 27, 2019
https://www.mystealthyfreedom.org/sabakordafshari-is-only-20-but-has-received-24-year-prison-sentence/
Campaign against compulsory hijab in Iran
August 27, 2019
https://www.mystealthyfreedom.org/sabakordafshari-is-only-20-but-has-received-24-year-prison-sentence/
My Stealthy Freedom
The White Wednesdays movement opposes compulsory hijab and promotes freedom of choice for Iranian women.
https://www.mystealthyfreedom.org/topics/news/white-wednesdays/
https://www.mystealthyfreedom.org/topics/news/white-wednesdays/
Yasaman Aryani took off her headscarf & was sentenced to 16 years in prison
By Madeline Hislop
Women's Agenda
October 22, 2019
https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/yasaman-aryani-took-off-her-headscarf-was-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison/
Women's Agenda
October 22, 2019
https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/yasaman-aryani-took-off-her-headscarf-was-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison/
Iran: Dozens of women ill-treated and at risk of long jail terms for peacefully protesting compulsory veiling
Iranian woman 'sentenced to 20 years in prison' for removing headscarf in protest
Demonstrator says she was jailed for 'opposing the compulsory hijab' and 'waving a white flag of peace in the street'
By Samuel Osborne
The Independent
July 10, 2018
July 19, 2022
Ahwazi Children in Iran: Starving, Abused, and Forced To Work
By Rahim Hamid and Yasser Assadi
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Fikra Forum
March 13, 2020
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Fikra Forum
March 13, 2020
Islamic Republic of Iran: Promoting Violence Against Children
Iran Human Rights Review
The Foreign Policy Center
January 2014
The Foreign Policy Center
January 2014
Iran: Child Laborers Exposed to Irreparable Lifelong Injuries
U.S. Foundation for Liberty
June 13, 2022
June 13, 2022
World Children's Day Rings Hollow for Children in Iran Who Enjoy Zero Rights
Iran Human Rights Monitor
November 19, 2020
November 19, 2020
Covid: Thousands of children left without parents in Iran
More than 51,000 children in Iran have lost a parent to the Covid-19 pandemic, Iranian welfare authorities say.
By Rana Rahimpour
BBC Persian
October 18, 2021
BBC Persian
October 18, 2021
Coronavirus pandemic exacerbates Iran's child abuse problem
By Khosro Kalbasi
Atlantic Council
IranSource
August 13, 2020
Atlantic Council
IranSource
August 13, 2020
July 18, 2022
The Life of an Iranian Child Bride: An Animation by Marjan Farsad
Center for Human Rights in Iran
August 30, 2021
August 30, 2021
Iran's Vice President Ansieh Khazali supports child marriage
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Blitz
Pressenza
November 14, 2021
Blitz
Pressenza
November 14, 2021
Iran lawmakers pass bill allowing men to marry adopted daughters
Human rights activists say approved bill, making girls vulnerable to the ruling from age 13, 'legalises paedophilia'
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan
The Guardian
September 26, 2013
July 16, 2022
Women Share Stories Of Sexual Abuse In Iranian Prisons
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
May 31, 2021
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
May 31, 2021
Sexual torture of women political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran Human Rights Review
The Foreign Policy Center
January 2014
The Foreign Policy Center
January 2014
Crime & Impunity
Sexual Torture of Women in Islamic Republic Prisons
Justice For Iran
December 10, 2012
https://justice4iran.org/6057/
Justice For Iran
December 10, 2012
https://justice4iran.org/6057/
New Prison-Rape Allegations In Iran Bring Practice To Light
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
August 26, 2009
https://www.rferl.org/amp/New_PrisonRape_Allegations_In_Iran_Bring_Practice_To_Light/1808311.html
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
August 26, 2009
https://www.rferl.org/amp/New_PrisonRape_Allegations_In_Iran_Bring_Practice_To_Light/1808311.html
July 15, 2022
Iran committing crimes against humanity by concealing fate of thousands of slaughtered political dissidents
Amnesty International
December 4, 2018
December 4, 2018
Iran's 1988 Mass Executions
Evidence & Legal Analysis of "Crimes Against Humanity"
Human Rights Watch
June 8, 2022
June 8, 2022