Iran’s tattered economy continues to be the subject of damning reports revealing the extent of the country’s economic depression. 60% of industrial and manufacturing units in the county of Gachsaran, southwest Iran, are currently closed.
Iran’s economy continues to suffer, case in point: Gachsaran
Iran threatens fast-breakers with lashes
Those who break fast in public will be “strongly” dealt with according to Mostafa Haghi, a senior Golestan Judiciary representative. The holy month of Ramadan began this week, if caught in public eating during daylight hours imprisonment and flogging will be used.
Propaganda clip released by Iranian regime to recruit Afghans to fight in Syria
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has published an article about the new promotional video clip the Iranian regime has issued in an attempt to recruit Afghan nationals to join the war in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The six-minute clip has been made and broadcast by Ofogh TV, a state television channel. Fars news agency is another state media agency that has shown and distributed the clip.
Iran: Eleven million people lack access to basic amenities
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have published an article on the poor living conditions of millions of Iranian people. The Iranian Interior Minister, Rahmani Fazli, on Monday 6th June said in parliament that there are 11 million people living in shanty towns, with 3 million of these living in the outskirts of Tehran, Mashhad and Ahwaz.
Iran: Lorestan’s telecom personnel protesting non-payment of late salaries
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that people from the telecommunications industry gathered in protest outside the governorate in the province of Lorestan (Western Iran) on Monday 6th June. These people were protesting non-payment of their deferred salaries and benefits. They were also protesting the non-implementation of a new job classification scheme.
Bahrain uncovers plans to smuggle convicts to Iran
In an article published on the Gulf News website, it has been reported that Bahrain’s interior ministry confirms that there was an attempt to smuggle eight fugitives out of the country. These fugitives have been convicted over terrorism cases to Iran.
The article states that the interior ministry “has intensified efforts to locate and recapture prisoners who broke out of jail on Friday evening”. The coast guard pursued a boat off the coast of northern Bahrain and those on board were ordered to stop.
Iran: Sunni youths arrested
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that at least eight people have been arrested by the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in the cities of Mahabad and Bukan, in West Azerbaijan Province in north-west Iran over the course of the past two weeks.
Iran: Pretext of Ramadan used to intensify oppressive measures
The secretary of the suppressive “Promotion of virtue and prevention of vice” institute, Mullah Ahmad Zargar, announced that special branches “to process the cases of the institute have been established in the justice departments throughout the country, as well as the Court of Justice and the Supreme Court”. The purpose of this is to speed up the processing of files related to those arrested by this institution, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Lord Alton: Dissent is very much alive in Iran despite recent crackdowns
Lord Alton of Liverpool, a Crossbench peer, has claimed that activists in Iran are still in “extreme danger” but acknowledges that they will not be defeated by the violence they are confronted with by the government.
In the article published on 1st June he said that a representative of the Iranian cybercrimes police used state media to boast about how the regime has been able to disrupt peaceful networks on Instagram and other social media. Western media picked up on this and took interest in the cultural battleground “where secular, pro-democratic ideas are aggressively battled by the Iranian regime”.
Eighteen charged in Bahrain for contacting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah
Eighteen people have been charged in Bahrain with contacting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Shi’ite Muslim Lebanese Hezbollah group “with the aim of stirring up unrest in the kingdom”, as reported by state news agency BNA on Wednesday.
Reuters have published an article with the news and remind that in January Bahrain cut diplomatic relations with Iran. This came the day after Riyadh severed ties with Tehran “following attacks by Iranian demonstrators on Saudi diplomatic missions in response to the execution of a prominent Shi’ite Muslim Saudi cleric convicted on terrorism charges”.
