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“If someone can do something, by all means, go for it. I can’t do anything. Don’t curse me,” Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s President, told a gathering of university students and academics in early December. At another meeting with provincial Ostandars (governors) and local officials, the President said, “solve your problems yourselves. You shouldn’t think that the…
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Tehran: The Iranian state is planning to open a treatment clinic for women who flout the mandatory hijab laws that require them to cover their heads in public. Announcing the opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic”, Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion…
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Iranian people walk at a flower market, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran. | Photo Credit: Reuters Millions of Iranians will travel to be with their families for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on March 20 but economic troubles in the sanctions-hit country are weighing on the festivities. Iranians will celebrate the…
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