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Suppressing Female Street Vendors in Iran - a Manifestation of Double Repression of Women 21 OCTOBER 2019   EMPTY By Jubin Katiraie Increased street peddling by women in Iran is the result of the catastrophic economic situation and the spread of poverty, analysts say. Peddling is not an official job but the result of an ailing and bankrupt economy which is due to corruption in the Iranian government. The Iranian government’s economic policy has led to a large part of the middle class falling into poverty. The situation is worse for women who are mainly housewives and have no income, so they are forced to go on the streets and work as peddlers. Hard-working women who are always subject to persecution and even insults by government officials are forced to accept these things in order to earn a little something for their families. According to state media and Iran’s officials, many of these women...

Pompeo: Efforts Are Underway to Push Back Iran's ‘Regime’ 21 OCTOBER 2019   EMPTY By Pooya Stone US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview that given the danger of Iran's increasing influence in Syria, efforts to push back Iran are both real and serious and are being pursued on an ongoing basis. In an interview with ABC News’ This Week program on 20 October, Pompeo said: “I can assure you that the effort to push back against Iran are real and continuous, unlike what the last administration did that picked Iran as its strategic security partner in the Middle East.” Pompeo added: “We've taken an incredibly different approach to that and the Islamic Republic of Iran is feeling it and security, stability in the Middle East is increased because of the work we’ve done.” Warning about Iran's danger Pompeo also referred to the danger posed by Iran in a part of an exclusive interview with Fox News that was conducted prior t...

Iran news in brief, October 21, 2019

IRAN: Azarab Workers Continue Protest, Block National Railway Suppressive Forces Fire Teargas Published on  21 October 2019 . On Sunday, October 20, 2019, workers at  Azarab  factory in the city of Arak (central Iran) continued their demonstrations for the 12 th  day running despite repeated threats and suppressive measures by the regime. Protesting about the lack of response to their just demands, the enraged  workers blocked the Tehran-Ahvaz railway . The suppressive forces attacked the protesting workers, fired teargas to disperse them and arrested a number of the workers. Since the start of the new round of protests by  Azarab  workers, a number of them have been summoned and threatened by the intelligence and security agencies. Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of  the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) , hailed the courageous and resilient workers of Azarab and urged the people of Arak, especially the ...

IRAN: Mullahs’ Anti-Labor Policies, Daily Deaths of Workers Deprived of Basic Safety Provisions Published on  21 October 2019 . 20 workers  lost their lives  in one week due to unsafe working conditions Four workers lost their lives  due to lack of the most basic safety provisions and equipment, according to the state-run media on Thursday, October 17, 2019. The incidents happened in Rasht (northern Iran), Tubas (northeast), and Chadegan (central Iran). On Friday, October 11, eight workers lost their lives in work-related accidents in Torbat Heydarieh (northeast), Bukan (northwest), Qazvin (west), Lowshan (north), and Anbar-Abad (south). The same day, the state-run news agency, IRNA, reported that two workers were electrocuted in a water well in Anbar-Abad (260 km south of Kerman in southern Iran). The day before, a Chromite mine collapsed in the village of Goji in the town of Zaveh killing a miner. And a young farmer was killed in Doukchi village in ...

Inside Iran’s Brutal Death Camps Where Thousands of MEK Members Were Massacred – Daily Star Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  21 October 2019 . Britain's Daily Star has interviewed opponents of Iran’s regime who told the paper that at least 30,000 political prisoners, mainly members of the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran  (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK) , were executed in Iran during the  1988 massacre  and that  the death camps are still open.   Speaking exclusively to Daily Star Online, some of the former political prisoners spoke out about their horrifying experiences in the torture chambers of Iran's regime.   Starting in July 1988, and lasting for around five months, Ruhollah Khomeini launched a fatwa against members of the  MEK .   Daily Star Online wrote  on Sunday that it visited the unofficial headquarters the regime's opponents in north London and spoke to former prisoners and relat...

In Iraq and Lebanon, Protesters Are Calling for an End to Iran’s Meddling 21 OCTOBER 2019   EMPTY Anti-government protesters near the Opera building in Beirut on Sunday By Pooya Stone For a long time, endless and unconventional wars turned the Middle East into a battlefield between regional powers. It is unfortunate that instability and lack of peace and security have become routine for the people of this region. Many innocent men, women, and even children wrestle with incredible threats and struggle to stay alive and save their families and relatives. However, it is significant that Tehran’s rulers have a main and fixed involvement in each conflict in this region. Iranian officials, in fact, forcefully attempt to style the Islamic Republic and the Revolutionary Guard ( IRGC ) as a savior for the people of neighboring countries. According to this policy, Iran’s Ayatollahs formed several paramilitary groups and funded them at the expense of the Iranian people. Iro...

In Lebanon, the system works for the elite October 21, 2019 Lebanese demonstrators gather at Martyrs' Square and Riad Al Solh Square during an anti-government protest against dire economic conditions and new tax regulations on messaging services like Whatsapp, in Beirut, Lebanon on 19 October 2019. “This is the most exciting, unifying thing that has happened since the end of the civil war,” said Fabio Irani, 25, a protester in Beirut. Lebanon is experiencing the rise of collective consciousness and the rejection of a sectarian division of society which has gripped the country for 29 years, since the end of the civil war in 1990. This is the culmination of decades of anger at the mismanagement of the nation by government officials, and corruption which serves only to enrich the political caste. The protesters are not just demanding the resignation of Hariri’s government, which Irani calls “Chapter one”, but the overhaul of the sectarian system. Events that have led to t...