NCRI: A new Pew Research Center poll finds that the Iranian regime’s global image remains overwhelmingly negative. Ratings for the Iranian regime in several Middle Eastern nations have declined significantly in recent years.
At the start of “Fight Against Addictive Drugs” week in Iran, the Office of Health Promotion and Education of Islamic Republic discussed the 5 million addicts in the country.
ShahramRafifar, head of the Office of Health Promotion and Education at the Ministry of Health in Iran, stated in a June 17thinterview with the Iranian Students News Agency(ISNA) that in addition to addicts, the health of their families, wives and children are also at risk.
According to Rafifar, about 5 million people of the Iranian population are pathologically drug abusers.While these figures are announced, the daily News Paper Arman published in Tehran reported on Tuesday that Saeed Safatian, former Iranian Director General of "therapy" in anti-drug campaign said that he believed the true number of addicts to be closer to 3.5 million. In 2007, Safatian claimed there was only 1.2 million addicts.
Iran state media reports that holding music classes this summer in cultural centers and cultural complexes belonging to the municipality of Tehran is now prohibited.
These closures have been issued without any directive. Managers of cultural centers have been asked orally to shut down music classes. Following this decision, nearly 10,000 students will be deprived of music classes.
The state-run Etemad newspaper reported on Monday, June 9, that head of the Cultural and Artistic Department of Tehran MunicipalityShahabMoradi participated in the banning of music classes in cultural centers and orally asked the managers of these centers not to register the applicants for the summer semester training courses.
AbdolhosseinMokhtabad, singer and member of the cultural commission of Tehran’s city council,describedmullah Moradi’s argument regarding the market downturn of the music schools an unreasonable excuse to justify the cancellation of music classes in cultural centers. He said:
“There is no rational behind this action. This argument is like saying that for the boom in private schools, public schools should be closed.”
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