Socially

By INU Staff

INU - Most dictatorships will only violate the human rights of its own people living within its geographical borders, but the Iranian Regime likes to do things differently.

By INU Staff

INU - Some 10 months after an earthquake hit Kermanshah, Fati, a 32-year-old housewife, says that they still don’t have a proper tent for living. She lives in fear of aftershocks with her two children and four other relatives, in a tent that was originally created for four people.

By INU Staff

INU - A municipal leader from Tehran has issued a grim warning about Iran's economic problems, claiming that a "tsunami" of poverty is crushing Iranian society.

Tehran City Council Chairman Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Tuesday, during a speech about urban governance in the capital, that Iran faces an economic crisis in the coming months as the US prepares to impose tougher sanctions on the Gulf nation.

By INU Staff

INU - The most recent protests to rock several Iranian cities pose an important challenge to Iran’s rulers. The protests are a continuation of the widespread anti-government movement that began in December 2017. The recent protests occurred in small towns and cities, as well as in the urban areas of Tehran, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, Rasht, Khuzestan and Tabriz.

By Poorang Novak

“The drought has impoverished the people of the province to the extent that children go to school ‘without breakfast’ and some of the ‘people have not seen a piece of meat for months and feed themselves with pieces of dried stale bread’,” according to a shocking statement by a representative of the southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan Province in the Supreme Council of Provinces (SCP).

by Jazeh Miller
According to an Amnesty International report, Iranian authorities are building a road over a mass grave and dozens of individual graves in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. This plot of land is believed to contain the remains of dozens of political dissidents, both men, and women, who were forcibly disappeared and extra-judicially killed in the 1980s including during the mass killings of 1988.