Government’s $7 Billion Control via Regulation of Kulbars: Will Kulbari Finally Be Legalized?/ Nafiseh Sharafaldini

The Pezeshkian administration is set to implement a regulatory framework for overseeing border trade practices, specifically kulbari (manual border transport) and tehlanji (small-scale maritime trade). Under this framework, the government plans to manage $4 to $7 billion worth of annual imports conducted through kulbari. Abdolnaser Hemmati, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, announced during a […]...

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From acting to smuggling/ Negar Jokar

Kolbari and sukhatabari are laborious occupations that a significant percentage of citizens are engaged in due to the lack of suitable and equal job opportunities. Every year, a large number of kolbars and sukhatabars are injured and killed as a result of military shootings, falling from mountains, and freezing in Iran. On the fifth of […]...

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Our Cartoon; A Work by Sanaz Taheri

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“Kulbari and fuel smuggling are the result of lack of social justice in Iran / Bahar Abbasi”

On the fifth day of Esfand month, military forces affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the border areas of Sistan and Baluchestan province opened fire on a group of Baloch fuel smugglers. As a result, several of the smugglers were killed or injured. The deceased were fuel smugglers who would buy fuel […]...

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Kulbar; Non-citizenship with the burden of life on their shoulders/ Ronaak Faraji

Kolbari, which has become a familiar concept in the vocabulary of language speakers living in the geographical regions of Iran, has become a symbol of endless suffering and pain for the human beings who originate from the systematic discrimination of the ruling system in the western and northwestern border regions of this geography. Kolbari is […]...

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What is happening on Persian Twitter?/ Maryam Shafipour

This is a caption This is a caption Maryam Shafiepour In recent months, the solidarity of Persian-speaking users on social networks, especially Twitter, has caused several news related to Iran to become widely discussed or, as they say, “trending” in the virtual world. In some cases, this collective empathy has resulted in desired outcomes in […]...

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