Censorship and Censor; A Journey Traveled / Seyed Mohammad Sahafi

1- In 43, I was six years old when they took me to Savak Qom to visit my father who was in temporary detention at the branch of this organization on Station Street in Qom. They had taken him there to punish and intimidate him because he had been selling and distributing the banned book […]...

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Hijab in the Islamic Republic; goal or means? / Keyumars Amiri

Roujan is an 11-year-old girl who is studying in fifth grade in Karaj. Before going to school, she had a happy and sweet life in a warm family environment with her parents, sister, and brother. She was free and full of energy in her childish imagination. But since she had to go to school and […]...

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The Naked Life of Unregistered Baloch Children/ Marzieh Mohabbey

I cannot let go of the enchantment of those glances, and I cannot understand the bright light in the eyes of the children who were forever bound in the attack of Pakistan’s missiles on a village in Saravan, located in Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. I cannot understand which race, nationality, or ethnicity the flow of […]...

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Suicide on the last day of autumn/ Hope Aghdami

In the early days of December this year, the ILNA news agency reported on the suicide of two workers at the Chavar Ilam petrochemical plant on the last day of autumn. With the suicide of these two workers, the number of suicides in this petrochemical complex has reached six in the past two years. A […]...

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Internet Execution Season/ Barbod Mirage

The chain of deliberate and unintentional events in the government of Ebrahim Raisi has led to the satisfaction of the internet in Iran reaching its lowest level. The 34% increase in internet prices was the final link in this chain that brought us to this point. But why have governing institutions, especially the government, raised […]...

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Freedom of thought and resistance against cultural limitations / Mehrdad Naghibi

The dismissive and belittling approach towards independent intellectuals was not limited to the post-revolution and the rule of the Islamic Republic, but even before the revolution, independent intellectuals were also subjected to ridicule and threats from the ruling government. The approach of negating intellectualism has not only been promoted and justified by the government, but […]...

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A Look at the Human Rights Situation in Iran in 2023 / Morteza Hamounian

The year 2023 AD also passed with all its ups and downs. It was a year that was greatly influenced by the protest movement in Iran, which had started the previous year. The violent crackdown on protesters continued during this year as well. Many of the protesters from the 1401 movement were still imprisoned and […]...

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Our Cartoon; A work by Sanaz Taheri.

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Conversation with Farid Barati Sadeh, former director of the Prevention and Treatment Office of Addiction at the Welfare Organization/ Ali Kalaii

The secretary of the Anti-Addiction Committee of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution says that at least one-sixth of our country’s population is affected by the issue of drug use. In November of this year, a fire in a rehabilitation camp in Langroud took the lives of 36 people. However, this incident did not receive […]...

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A commercial look at addiction treatment centers; in conversation with Abbas Shakeri, economist / Matin Mostafaei.

“Addiction and Its Treatment” has been a major issue in the healthcare system of many countries in recent years. Considering the extensive and long-term activities of treatment and rehabilitation centers for addicts in Iran, and the various issues that have arisen in addiction recovery camps during these years, the performance of these centers has been […]...

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“The Opium Addiction in the Passage of Iran’s History/ Morteza Hamounian”

When we sit down with our old memories – especially if those memories are of smoke and fumes – sometimes we hear things that are hard to believe. The stories are also full of the movement of opium by citizens and opium coupons that were distributed before the revolution in February 1979. Something that was […]...

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Let’s not ignore the issue of addiction among women and youth / Elaheh Amani.

Becoming addicted, like poverty, is one of the serious problems and bitter and undeniable realities. The policies of different countries around the world to combat the growing trend of addiction are very diverse, but addiction in women – which is on the rise in Iran and the world – has not been seriously addressed by […]...

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