IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS

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."

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

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/hum_exp_iran.pdf

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

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/06/researchers-say-irans-doing-nothing-protect-young-people-addiction

Video of street drug use illustrates Iran's growing addiction problem

France 24
The Observers
May 21, 2021

https://amp.observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210521-video-of-street-drug-use-illustrates-iran-s-growing-addiction-problem

Torture and humiliation reported norm at Iran's rehab facilities

By Alijani Ershad
The Observers
February 9, 2021

https://amp.observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210210-rehab-centre-iran-drug-addict-violence-humiliation-torture

Iranian Use More Than Two Tons Of Narcotics Every Day

Radio Farda
July 15, 2019

https://en.radiofarda.com/amp/iranian-use-more-than-two-tons-of-narcotics-every-day/30056090.html

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

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-tehran-drug-addiction-opium-heroin-afghanistan-taliban-a7809046.html?amp

Iran's drug problem: Addicts 'more than double' in six years

BBC News
June 25, 2017

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40397727.amp

Iran's growing drug problem: 'No walk of society is immune'

By Rahim Mostaghim and Shashank Bengali
Los Angeles Times
December 19, 2016

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-drug-addiction-2016-story.html

Drug abuse in Iran rising despite executions, police raids

By Ali Akbar Dareini
Associated Press
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 12, 2015

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-drug-abuse-in-iran-rising-despite-executions-2015feb12-story.html

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

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/hooked-in-iran-where-addiction-rates-are-world-s-highest-1.1834386

Methamphetamine Use Soars in Iran as Lifestyles Speed Up

Reuters
VOA News
December 8, 2014

https://www.voanews.com/amp/reu-methamphetamine-use-soars-in-iran-lifestyles-speed-up/2549904.html

Iran's hidden scourge: widespread drug abuse at all levels of society

By Paul Koring
The Globe And Mail
May 27, 2012

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/world/irans-hidden-scourge-widespread-drug-abuse-at-all-levels-of-society/article4210030/

Iran has 130,000 new drug addicts each year-report

Reuters
November 15, 2009

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSDAH544630

July 27, 2022

Selling sex to survive in Iran

By Amir Nategh
BBC News
March 17, 2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60661875.amp

Temporary marriage in Iran and women's rights

By Fariba Parsa
Middle East Institute
January 13, 2021

https://www.mei.edu/publications/temporary-marriage-iran-and-womens-rights

Former Iran Football Chief Slams Government For Women's Stadium Ban

By Maryam Sinaee
Iran International
April 3, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202204031318

Inside Tehran's Sex Trade, A Business Hiding In Plain Sight

By Margot Buff
March 07, 2021
Radio Farda

https://www.rferl.org/amp/iran-prostitution-sex-workers/31133070.html

Sex workers in Iran

The Regime's Denial Means They Have Little Access to Support

By Fayrouz Ramadan Zada
Majalla
May 7, 2021

https://eng.majalla.com/node/134926/societysex-workers-iran

Is Tbilisi the New Capital for Iranian Sex Workers?

By Arash Azizi
Iran Wire
August 7, 2018

https://iranwire.com/en/features/65451

Iranian Women and Dubai's Sex Market

By Aida Qajar
Iran Wire
June 16, 2014

https://iranwire.com/en/society/60216

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

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/oct/10/iran-prostitution-sex-work-runaways

Inside modern Iran, where porn and prostitution are rampant

By Larry Getlen
New York Post
August 30, 2014

https://nypost.com/2014/08/30/inside-modern-iran-where-porn-and-prostitution-are-rampant/amp/

2021 Trafficking in Persons Report: Iran

U.S. Department of State
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-trafficking-in-persons-report/iran/

July 26, 2022

Iran Loses Highly Educated and Skilled Citizens during Long-Running "Brain Drain"

By Hassan Mahmoudi
Migration Policy Institute
April 22, 2021

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/iran-brain-drain-emigration

Why do professional Iranians emigrate abroad (brain drain)?

By Cyrus Yaqubi
Atalayar
December 9, 2021

https://atalayar.com/en/blog/why-do-professional-iranians-emigrate-abroad-brain-drain

Conservative Website Says Next President Must Tackle Iran's Brain Drain

By Maryam Sinaiee
Iran International
May 29, 2021

https://old.iranintl.com/en/iran/conservative-website-says-next-president-must-tackle-iran%E2%80%99s-brain-drain

Businessman Warns, Instability Worsening Brain Drain From Iran

Iran International
February 15, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202202157568

Iran's brain drain: The impact of poverty and inflation

By Hossein Beizayi
Iran News Wire
November 1, 2021

https://irannewswire.org/irans-brain-drain-the-impact-of-poverty-inflation/?amp

Iran's Growing Brain Drain Disaster

By Heshmat Alavi
Vocal Europe
December 03, 2017

https://www.vocaleurope.eu/irans-growing-brain-drain-disaster/

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

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-best-brightest-leaving-country-brain-drain

Fact Check: Does Iran Suffer From a Brain Drain and How Serious Is It?

Iran Wire
May 3, 2020

https://iranwire.com/en/fact-checking/67003

July 25, 2022

Iran economist says 60 million Iranians live in poverty, 30 million unemployed

Iran News Wire

September 23, 2020

https://irannewswire.org/iran-economist-says-60-million-iranians-live-in-poverty-30-million-unemployed/?amp

Statistics Suggest Half Of Iranians Living In Poverty

By Maryam Sinaee
Iran International
October 8, 2020

https://old.iranintl.com/en/iran/statistics-suggest-half-iranians-living-poverty

One Out Of Every Two Iranians Lives Below Poverty Line, Says Report

Iran International
October 11, 2020

https://old.iranintl.com/en/iran/one-out-every-two-iranians-lives-below-poverty-line-says-report

Iran Enters A New Economic Era Marked By Poverty

Iran International
August 23, 2021

https://old.iranintl.com/en/iran/iran-enters-new-economic-era-marked-poverty

Iranians Enter a New Century Poorer and Less Hopeful for the Future

By Ali Ranjipour
Iran Wire
March 18, 2021

https://iranwire.com/en/features/69201

Poverty Rate in Iran 'Doubled' in Three Years

Iran Wire
November 2, 2021

https://iranwire.com/en/features/70683

Spiralling poverty in Iran adds to pressure on regime

By Najmeh Bozorgmehr
The Financial Times
January 25, 2021

https://www.ft.com/content/520b54e4-c793-4e7d-84f5-03f71587532d

Iranian MP: Nine Mln Families Living Below Poverty Line

Asharq Al-Awsat
May 7, 2022

https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3632491/iranian-mp-nine-mln-families-living-below-poverty-line

As Millions Face Poverty, Iran's Government Dissolves Largest NGO for the Poor

Center for Human Rights in Iran
May 26, 2022

https://iranhumanrights.org/2022/05/as-millions-face-poverty-irans-government-dissolves-largest-ngo-for-the-poor/

Iran: Workers demand democracy and freedom against poverty, corruption and repression

IndustriALL Global Union
January 5, 2018

https://www.industriall-union.org/iran-workers-demand-democracy-and-freedom-against-poverty-corruption-and-repression

Iran bans newspaper that linked supreme leader to poverty

AP News
November 9, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/business-iran-media-poverty-dubai-1b45f7e452fb28c77575a264ff6c792a

Deepening Poverty Threatens the Social Contract in Iran

By Sara Bazoobandi
The Arab Golf States Institute in Washington
October 22, 2020

https://agsiw.org/deepening-poverty-threatens-the-social-contract-in-iran/

Children of Iran

Realizing Children's Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Humanium

https://www.humanium.org/en/iran/

July 24, 2022

Iran's War on Its Own Environment

United Against Nuclear Iran

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/irans-war-on-its-own-environment

Water, Environment and Justice: Iran

Iran Human Rights
May 2022

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/28/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Water_Environment_and_Justice-1.pdf

Iran's environmental degradation

By Khalil Khani
Atalayar
January 29, 2022

https://atalayar.com/en/blog/irans-environmental-degradation

A brief review of destruction of environment in Iran in four decades

Iran Human Rights Monitor
June 5, 2022

https://iran-hrm.com/2022/06/05/destruction-of-environment-in-iran-in-four-decades/?amp

Iran water: What's causing the shortages?

By Jack Goodman
BBC News
August 2, 2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/58012290.amp

Iran's water is running dry. Now its water woes are worsening.

By Sahab Bahar
Atlantic Council
IranSource
December 13, 2021

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/irans-water-is-running-dry-now-its-water-woes-are-worsening/

Iran: Ensure right to safe drinking water and release peaceful protesters in Khuzestan

Amnesty International
July 6, 2018

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/8756/2018/en/

Iran: Security forces use live ammunition and birdshot to crush Khuzestan protests

Amnesty International
July 23, 2021

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/07/iran-security-forces-use-live-ammunition-and-birdshot-to-crush-khuzestan-protests/

'Give Isfahan Life!' Water Shortages Unleash Waves Of Protest In Iran

Radio Farda
November 24, 2021

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-water-shortages-protests/31577306.html

Thousands of Iranians protest over dried-up river

By Borzou Daragahi
The Independent
November 19, 2021

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-river-zayandeh-climate-protests-b1960860.html?amp

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).

Fertile Soil Being Smuggled Out Of Iran On Large Scale

Radio Farda
December 16, 2018

https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-fertile-soil-smuggled-out-to-gulf-states/29658801.html

Iranian press review: Fertile soil smuggled to Gulf countries

Middle East Eye
November 25, 2021

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-fertile-soil-smuggled-gulf-countries-press-review

Iran Sentences Eight Environmental Activists On Charges Of Spying For U.S.

Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
February 18, 2020

https://www.rferl.org/amp/iran-sentences-eight-environmental-activists-for-allegedly-spying-for-u-s-/30441439.html

Iran Court Upholds 58 Years Prison Term For Eight Environmentalists

Radio Farda
February 18, 2020

https://en.radiofarda.com/amp/iran-court-upholds-58-years-prison-term-for-eight-environmentalists/30441558.html

Jailed Environmentalist Expose Torture in Iran; IHR Calls for Immediate International Reaction

Iran Human Rights
February 20, 2020

https://www.iranhr.net/en/articles/4139/

Iran: Release eight wildlife conservationists following unfair trial on trumped-up spying charges

Amnesty International
March 5, 2019

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/03/iran-release-eight-wildlife-conservationists-following-unfair-trial-on-trumped-up-spying-charges/

UN Environment Director Calls For Freeing Iran Conservationists

Iran International
June 5, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202206055528

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

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-iran-destroying-once-thriving-environmental-movement

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

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16694-iran-s-largest-steel-company-caught-in-billion-dollar-corruption-scandal

Radio Farda Exposé On IRGC Corruption, Infighting Raises Ire Of Iranian Authorities

By Golnaz Esfandiari
Radio Farda
February 18, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/amp/farda-leaked-conversation-corruption-irgc/31710316.html

Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part I: The Ones That Got Away

By Masoud Kazemi
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

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71264/

Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part IX: A Veteran Minister's Greed

February 9, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71270/

Corruption and Mismanagement Index

United Against Nuclear Iran
June 2022

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/index.php/corruption

Corrupt to the Core: The Long List of Corrupt Iranian Officials

By Ehsan Mehrabi
Iran Wire
December 21, 2020

https://iranwire.com/en/features/68397/

Under the shadow

Illicit economies in Iran

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
October 2020

https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/under-the-shadow-illicit-economies-in-iran/

Iran Corruption Report

Risk & Compliance
August 2020

https://www.ganintegrity.com/portal/country-profiles/iran/

Fighting corruption or just more political infighting in Iran?

By Tahereh Hadian-Jazy
Atlantic Council
September 5, 2019

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/fighting-corruption-or-just-more-political-infighting-in-iran/

How the Corruption Mafia Took $30 Billion out of Iran in One Year

By Ali Ranjipour
Iran Wire
May 28, 2019

https://iranwire.com/en/features/66059/

Billions Of Dollars Involved In Two Corruption Trials In Iran

Radio Farda
March 14, 2019

https://en.radiofarda.com/amp/billions-of-dollars-involved-in-two-corruption-trials-in-iran/29820792.html

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

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2019/03/iran-corruption-case-petrochemical-hamzelou-sheikholeslami.html

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

https://agsiw.org/nepotism-corruption-and-fraud-business-as-usual-among-irans-political-elite/

Why Iran must legislate away rampant corruption

By Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
Al-Monitor
August 30, 2018

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2018/08/iran-corruption-economic-crisis-rouhani-reform-legislation.html

Corruption is Here - Get Used to It

Iran Wire
July 26, 2018

https://iranwire.com/en/features/65429/

Iran: The long road to transparency

Article 19
September 28, 2017

https://www.article19.org/resources/iran-the-long-road-to-transparency/

Iran's double standard of justice

By Shabnam von Hein
Deutsche Welle
July 20, 2017

https://m.dw.com/en/irans-double-standard-of-justice/a-39778965

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

https://amp.dw.com/en/corruption-among-irans-business-elites/a-19116640

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

https://www.ft.com/content/e6e949f8-8eae-11e5-8be4-3506bf20cc2b

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

July 20, 2022

Iranian woman 'beaten' by police for 'improper hijab' dies after coma: Reports

By Yaghoub Fazeli
Al Arabiya
September 16, 2022

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/09/16/Iranian-woman-beaten-by-police-for-not-wearing-hijab-dies-after-coma

Iranian Woman Brain Dead After Arrest By Morality Police Over Hijab Rules

By Radio Farda
September 15, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/a/iranian-woman-brain-dead-arrets-morality-police-hijab/32035501.html

Iran Using Surveillance Cameras To Identify Women Breaking Hijab Rule

Radio Farda
August 30, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-surveillance-cameras-identify-women-hijab-rules/32010957.html

A Futile Display? Cities in Iran Step Up Morality Patrols

By Hedie Kimiaee
Iran Wire
July 9, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/women/105532-a-futile-display-cities-in-iran-step-up-morality-patrols/

Footage shows violent arrest of Iranian woman with dog-catching pole

Arab News
October 21, 2021

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1952486/amp

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/

Iranian civil rights activist gets prison for taking off hijab in public

By Amanda Woods
New York Post
August 29, 2019

https://nypost.com/2019/08/29/iranian-civil-rights-activist-gets-prison-for-taking-off-hijab-in-public/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/

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/