80,000 illiterate children a year forced into labor in Iran
NCRI - Up to 80,000 pupils leave school illiterate and are forced into child labour every year in Iran, state-run newspaper Etemad has reported....
Iran: Workers and employees laid-off
NCRI - In the city of Bandar-Abbas, 23 employees of the Bus Drivers Company were laid-off. They had not been paid for two months....
Iran: More production units are being closed down
NCRI - In the city of Takestan 40 percent of production units are in active while in Orumieh 70 per cent of the production...
Iran ranks third in the world in inflation
NCRI - Iran’s inflation rate has soared up gaining the third rank after Belarus and Syria, the Central Bank reported. In its latest report,...
Iran: Workers and farmers protest low wages and layoffs
NCRI - More than 3000 furious workers of two companies in the city of Shahre Kord burnt the rice and oil they had received...
Iran: Factory workers unpaid for three months
NCRI - More than 250 workers at Iran's Jahan Electric factory have not been paid for three months, a worker's representative has revealed. Their...
Iran: Labor and student protests in Ahvaz and Tehran
NCRI - Some 200 laid off textile workers in city of Ahvaz gathered in protest in front of city’s labor department to protest lack...
Iran: Import of frozen meat has grown 20 fold
NCRI - Currently, Iran is importing over $7,000,000 worth of frozen meat a month. This number has grown 20 fold in the past eight...
More than a third of Iran’s total imports are smuggled
NCRI - The value of goods and currency smuggled into Iran each year has now soared to $19 billion, according to a report from...
Iran’s economic crisis could cause social unrest, regime’s economist warns
NCRI - An economy expert close to the Iranian regime has declared that the economic collapse in Iran has entered an uncontrollable stage. Mohsen...
