A Look at National Parks Around the World and an Examination of the Status of National Parks in Iran in Conversation with Amir Aghakouchak, Environmental Researcher / Mina Javani

Garbage, the scourge of Iran’s national parks. A national park is an area of natural resources, including forests, grasslands, natural meadows, plains, rivers, lakes, and mountains, that serves as a showcase for prominent examples of natural phenomena. Governments protect these areas to preserve the ecosystem, create a suitable environment for the reproduction and growth of […]...

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Polluted national parks/ Mehrvash Khajouandi

According to the announcements of environmental experts in the country, we are facing numbers higher than 150 in the unhealthy range in terms of air pollution in the capital and cities where air pollution monitoring is being carried out. These unhealthy air days have worsened and increased year after year for the country, with almost […]...

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Notes on the Women’s Struggle for Freedom and Equality and Against Authoritarianism in 2022 / Elaheh Amani

Last year (2022) despite numerous challenges, was a fruitful year in the global fight for gender equality. Women and all individuals whose rights are violated by gender-based inequalities and violence, did not back down in their efforts to combat war crimes, religious dictatorships, and manipulation in democratic elections. Without the persistent efforts of women, 2022 […]...

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A Historical-Philosophical Perspective on the Student Movement / Amin Ghazaei

Since the beginning of nationwide protests and the uprising of the people, universities in the country have been witnessing widespread protests almost every day in the form of gatherings and sit-ins. According to statistics collected by Hrana, until the writing of this article, there have been hundreds of protest gatherings in one hundred and forty-four […]...

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The university is alive / Shahriar Shams

We begin this note with a quote from Sophie Scholl, a student who stood in front of Hitler and was executed: “I cannot understand how some people constantly put the lives of others in danger. I will never understand and I think it is terrible. Don’t tell me it’s for the sake of the fatherland.” […]...

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How did “woman, life, freedom” become the strongest bond between students and people?/ Ali Esmaeil Farahani

Students and people have become very close in the current era and it seems as if they have reached a common desire. The policies that have been implemented so far have been a major obstacle to our nation’s progress. We had become isolated islands that would come together for a moment to achieve a short-term […]...

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The university is unstoppable / Roozbeh Parsi

The relationship between students and the Ministry of Science has undergone many changes in the past years and has ranged from cooperation to complete conflict. To understand the current situation of the university, it is necessary and essential to examine the past of this relationship. During the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it was a period […]...

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Hafez Musavi: Iranian artist is inevitably involved with social and political issues/ Mehrnoush No’edoust

Examining the committed art and social responsibility of the artist in conversation with Hafez Musavi, poet. Who is a committed artist? Is art simply a result of an artist’s reaction to political and social situations? What is the state of committed and protest art in the current protests in Iran? These questions have been asked […]...

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“Manifestation of Protest and Revolution / Behzad Kambouzia”

An overview of the visual works arising from the movement of “Women, Life, Freedom”. In recent weeks, the intensity and severity of events and important developments have been so high that it has likely changed the meaning of time for many of us. It is as if imagining the situation in Iran before the murder […]...

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The blazing flames of creation / Nima Rahi

A brief note on the relationship between art and revolution. Socrates did not like tragedy and the reason he gave was very simple: “tragedy is beneficial.” This usefulness later became one of the fundamental principles of tragic writing, theorized by tragedians such as Sophocles. In simple terms, this usefulness referred to promoting a universal perspective […]...

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Conversation with Naemat Ahmadi, lawyer and prosecutor about the increase in execution sentences in Iran/ Ali Kalaii

Overcoming unemployment is overcoming crime. Statistics in the past year show a significant increase in the implementation of the death penalty in Iran. It seems that since Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei took office, there has been a strong will within the judicial system to expedite all death sentences. This has prompted the monthly magazine Khat-e-Solh to interview […]...

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The visibility of children in street protests/ Hamed Firmand

Mehsa Amini, a young woman, was killed by the agents of the “moral security police” in late Shahrivar 1401 (September 2022) during widespread protests against the Islamic Republic. In these protests, children, especially teenagers, play a central role, but perhaps more important than their role in these protests is the visibility of children during protest […]...

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