Environmental news

• Iran facing environmental crisis, warns vice president 28/05/00
• Iran: Environmental Issues 04/00

Air

• DOE Calls for Relocating Tehran Airport to Ease Pollution 07/06/00
• Tehran in Spring 2000: Blue Sky or the Same Old Mirage? 08/03/00
• Air pollution increases in Tehran 02/02/00
• Iran's Clean Air Day gets cold shoulder 20/01/00
• Tehran residents give mixed welcome to anti-pollution day 19/01/00
• Air Pollution Endangering Isfahan's Historic Relics 15/01/00
• Wind helps blow away Tehran pollution 11/01/00
• Iran adopts 10-year plan to fight pollution 03/01/00
• Air Pollution Images from Tehran 29/12/99
• Smog Forces Iranians To Wear Masks 28/12/99
• As Tehran pollution worsens, army and city squabble over control of police 28/12/99
• Smog shuts Tehran schools 26/12/99
• Air pollution in Tehran intensifies 21/12/99
• Pollution reaches 'danger' level in Tehran 18/12/99
• Air pollution at alarming level in Tehran 18/12/99
• Air pollution again rises in tehran 13/12/99
• Iran shuts schools in capital because of smog 09/12/99
• Tehran Plunged in Smog 08/12/99
• Tehran's Carbon Monoxide Twice Standard Level 16/11/99
• Air pollution in Tehran three times higher than standard 18/10/99
• Tehran air pollution reaches alarming levels  05/10/99
• City Children Face Grave Dangers From Air Pollution 26/09/99
• Iran Widens Tehran School Closures Due to Smog 17/12/98
• While Pollution Is Killing, Mullahs' Merely Issue "Warnings"14/12/98
• The Black Skies of Tehran and the Air Quality Control Company 05/95

Drought

• Zayanderoud river runs dry 28/08/00
• UN warns drought on verge of becoming "full-fledged disaster" 03/08/00
• 25 tons of fish perish in northwestern Iran 30/07/00
• Unprecedented drought in Iran dries out three major lagoons 26/07/00
• Water Crisis in Iran 08/06/00
• Iran drought kills hundreds of thousands of fish 08/06/00
• Official drought information 05/06/00
• Iran imports tons of barley after drought hampers production 30/05/00
• Iran: Drought Devastates The Land 26/05/00
• Iran hit by unprecedented drought 19/04/00
• Drought causing shortage of potable water in southeastern Iran 10/04/00
• Tehran's Growing Water Crisis 12/99
• Over 50% of Gilan Paddy Fields Damaged - 22/08/99
• Iran drought damages rice fields in North - 17/08/99
• Iran Facing Worst Drought in 30 Years - 12/04/99

Water

• 3.1 bn cu. mt. of wastewater dumped into lagoons annually 05/06/00
• Pollutants Turn Caspian Sea Into Graveyard of Dangerous Wastes14/05/00
• Tanker with more than 900 tons of oil sinks off UAE 24/01/00
• Power station effluent leak in western Iran causes environmental damage 02/01/00
• Black Gold: The Race to Develop Caspian Sea Oil May Steam Right Over the Environment 12/99
• Pollution threatening caspian sea ecosystem 31/10/99
• Tehran in need of new water resources 31/10/99
• Pollutants affecting Caspian Sea environment  18/10/99
• Persian Gulf Turning Hot, Salty, Oily - 26/09/99
• Caspian ecology endangered, Iranian expert warns - 01/09/99
• Green Group in Drive to Clean Caspian Beaches  - 30/08/99
• Thousands of Fish Perish Away Due to Water Pollution - 07/99
• Iran Says Contains Oil Spill on Gulf Coast - 23/12/98
• Oil Boom Puts Caspian Sea Ecosystem at Risk - 14/12/98
• Hamoun With Its Latent Beauty and Migrating Birds On the Verge of Destruction 11/99
• Each Year 1.250 Billion Cubic Meters of Treated Water Is Wasted in Iran! - 21/06/99

Agriculture and Flora

• Mountain park set on fire 11/06/00
• Mass deaths of Caspian seals still a mystery 29/05/00
• Some 62,000 Hectares of Forests Destroyed Annually
• Forests of Gilan on the Verge of Destruction - 22/12/97
• Statistics on the Annual Increase in the Area of Deserts in Iran - 11/97
• Desertification in Iran -  Spring 1995
• Desert Advance and Deforestation in Iran - 20/02/95
• Area of Natural Parks, Green Space, and Forest Reserves in 1371 (1992)

Fauna

• Iran Has No More Moghan deer 12/06/00
• Fish Harvest in Caspian Sea Down by 11 Percent 10/06/00
• Houbara Bustard
• The Iranian Wolf
• Iranians buy Soviet 'killer' dolphins 10/03/00
• Iran judge faces court for pigeon slaughter 24/01/00
• U.S. Biologists to Visit Iran 08/11/99
• Some Iranian wildlife listed as endangered species 09/99
• Iranian cheetah facing extinction  1998
• The Iranian Cheetah
• Comments upon bears in Iran 1998
• Asian Black Bear
• Persian Fallow Deer
• The Caspian Tiger
• The Persian Wild Ass

Social Issues

Human Rights

• Islamic vigilantes take control of Tehran square 08/07/00
• Amnesty International - Annual Report 2000 - Iran 14/06/00
• 'Spies' Under the Persian Rug 06/00
• Iranian Rights Activist's Backers Assail Bid to Deport Her 06/05/00
• Journalist, Akbar Ganji in solitary confinement: paper 06/05/00
• Show Trial in Shiraz 04/05/00
• Two student journalists kidnapped then released after two days 04/05/00
• Amnesty International Urgent Action 03/05/00
• Iranian court charges prominent reformers 30/04/00
• Hard-liner court in Iran jails pro-Khatami activist 30/04/00
• Iran says it spares four students from hanging after July unrest 30/04/00
• Press Festival Cancelled : IRNA 29/04/00
• Two women jailed for participating in Berlin conference 29/04/00
• Hard-line Iranian press court closes down three more papers 27/04/00
• Iran Press Court Closes 12 Reformist Papers 23/04/00
• Second journalist arrested in two days 23/04/00
• Iranian reformist journalist arrested 22/04/00
• Iran's extremists in war on reform 19/04/00
• Executions increase in 1999 18/04/00
• Revolutionary Guards give no-nonsense warning to pro reform press 16/04/00
• Journalists who participated at Berlin meeting to be arrested 12/04/00
• Parliament passes tough press measures 11/04/00
• Iran editor indicted by hard-line court 11/04/00
• Iranian reformist editor jailed for Islam challenge 10/04/00
• Khatami Orders Closure of Daily Arya 08/04/00
• Khatami's brother summoned by press court 30/03/00
• Iran relents on Afghan refugees 16/03/00
• Iran refuses accused Jews to choose lawyers 16/03/00
• UN rights envoy urges Iran to investigate deaths 16/03/00
• State agents suspected of shooting Rafsanjani opponent in street 13/03/00
• Opposition says mutilation of prisoners continues in Iran 09/03/00
• Murder by decree 08/03/00
• Atrocity in Iranian prisons continue unabated 02/03/00
• Young men and women sentenced to beatings 02/03/00
• Three opposition figures jailed 02/03/00
• Student on death row claims he was tortured 01/03/00
• Iranian student on death row says tortured-papers 01/03/00
• Open letter from Akbar Mohammadi in Evin prison 29/02/00
• Iran Students Narrate Beatings 29/02/00
• Police harassment had picked up since the elections 29/02/00
• End religious persecution, Do not execute members of Baha'i community 28/02/00
• US report highlights rights abuses in Iraq, Iran 25/02/00
• Urgent Action on Akbar Mohammadi issued by Amnesty International 22/02/00
• Iran Court Overturns Death Sentences 17/02/00
• Cartoonist held after lampooning conservative cleric 05/02/00
• Iran hangs four, amputates fingers of seven 20/01/00
• Ayatollah checkmates chess-players in central Iranian city 19/01/00
• Protests near Tehran and in southwest 10/01/00
• Once again, the Islamic regime shoot at the Mostaz'afin 04/01/00
• Partial listing of the arrested students and their illegal status 03/01/00
• Refugees to be repatriated to ease unemployment 03/01/00
• Arrests hang over Iran's small Jewish community 02/01/00
• Iran Teen Pardoned Before Hanging 02/01/00
• Public hanging at dawn for Iranian who killed Islamic militiaman 29/12/99
• Iran flogs two for smoking in public 25/12/99
• Iran court sentences two students to death -paper 25/12/99
• Iran upholds death sentence of militiaman killer 23/12/99
• Iran court sentences killer of militiaman to death 16/12/99
• The Hero of the Economist Magazine sentenced to death - 12/12/99
• Akbar Mohamadi condemned to death 04/12/99
• Protester into Prisoner 13/11/99
• UN criticises Iran on human rights 3/11/99
• Iranian students sentenced over play 3/11/99
• Iranian editor arrested by hardline court and taken to Evin Prison 2/11/99
• English translation of the play
• Iran press court postpones verdict in blasphemous play trial 30/10/99
• Protesters Held As Khatami Ends Paris Trip 29/10/99
• Four face death - and we all stand idly by - 29/10/99
• Iranian woman to be stoned for adultery and murder - 18/10/99
• From my Iranian prison  15/09/99
• Iran tear gases 10,000 protesters  13/07/99
• Iran, du plomb dans les plumes 01/07/99

Women

• Women's Delegates Reach Agreement 10/06/00
• Sexual Rights for Women Bog Down U.N. Meeting 09/06/00
• Less than Two Million Women Employed in Iran 06/06/00
• Iranian girls not getting enough sex education, professor says 11/05/00
• Iran's female students protest at segregation 28/01/99
• Women arrested for violating Islamic dress code 22/01/00
• Iran Woman Medical Students Protest Poor Education 14/01/00
• Khatami and the Status of Women in Iran
• A Statistical Glance at Women's Employment in Iran
• Red Light under a Thin Veil - Temporary Marriage 1998
• See BadJens - an Iranian Feminist Newsletter for many more articles

Youth and Education

• Tehran home to 25,000 street children: MP 09/08/00
• Tehran opens home for street children 22/05/00
• Youth Employment and the Crisis Ahead 04/00
• Qom's Private Medical University Students in Fifth Sit-In Demo 01/03/00
• Iran doing "nothing" for the lads in Haqqi Alley 16/02/00
• Iran's female students protest at segregation 28/01/99
• Iran Woman Medical Students Protest Poor Education 14/01/00
• Discontent among young people in Iran is forcing the pace of political change 08/01/00
• Iran's Young Are Restless Under Islam: Teenagers Lament Strict Social Laws 28/12/99
• Iran's students pressure Khatami to repay support - 13/12/99
• Iranian teens just wanna have their fun 31/10/99

Health

• In Iran, a junkie's fix is cheaper than a bottle of milk 03/12/00
• Iran suspends all surgery over millennium bug fears 29/12/99
• Iran's addicts are ignored in west's war on drug traffickers - 02/12/99
• 25,000 People in Iran Are Said to Be HIV Positive 29/10/99
• Iranian Officials to Go on Trial over HIV-Tainted Blood 07/06/99
• Heroin Use, AIDS Reported on Rise in Iran 04/04/99
• TB 'Trouble Spots' Jeopardize Global Control Efforts 01/05/98
• WHO Health Indicators 1996

Population

• A Statistical Sketch of Iran's Rural population 1995

Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals

• News from Homan 17/11/00
• A Mother Takes On The Ayatollah 13/11/00
• Iranian Gays Bravely Unite Worldwide 03/02/97
• Saviz Shafaie: An Iranian Gay Activist Leader 27/05/97
  

Politics and Economics

Economics

• Iran's per capita assets less than half of world's average 24/05/00
• 2,000 Iranian workers in fresh protest over controversial labour law 08/03/00
• Protesters Leave Tehran-Karaj Road 02/03/00
• 500 workers demonstrate outside parliament over new law 28/02/00
• Unemployment high, but even those with jobs not paid 14/02/00
• Iran wants to export gas it cannot supply 03/01/00
• Official: Growth in productivity index is meager 29/12/99
• Interior ministry bans demonstration by unemployed 18/12/99
• Interior Ministry disallows demonstrations in front of SSO's 18/12/99
• Retail prices of goods increase 11/12/99
• Iranian Agriculture, Needs of Tomorrow, Realities of Today 10/97
• Income and Employment Inequalities in Iran 05/97
• A Survey of the Job Inclinations of Youth in the Rural Areas 05/95
• The Unemployment Problem 09/03/95
• Housing Figures 10/94
• Malnutrition in Iran -Autumn 1994

Election 2000

• Guardian Council overturns result, raises fear of demonstrations 09/06/00
• Reformist Rally Angers Some in Iran 24/05/00
• Reformists Win Majority in Iran 06/05/00
• Iranian hard-liners annul another election won by a moderate 26/04/00
• Some 150 arrested as thousands protest annulment of poll for third day 21/04/00
• More protests as seventh reformer has election overturned 08/04/00
• Sixth reformist has election cancelled by conservative council 07/04/00
• Leading Iranian reformists and opponents meet in Berlin 06/04/00
• Reformist victories cancelled in Iran 11/03/00
• Iran's morals squads crack down after polls 29/02/00
• Vote-rigging scandal mars Iranian poll 25/02/00
• Iranian politics: A family affair 22/02/00
• Riots in two Iran towns after incumbent MPs win 19/02/00
• Iran's myth of moderation 18/02/00
• Iranians tune to Western radios despite jamming16/02/00
• Radio programs jammed 14/02/00
• Election campaign not free and fair, rights group says 11/02/00
• 576 Iranian Candidates Disqualified 08/02/00
• Many Reformers Ruled Off Iran Ballot 24/01/00
• Interior ministry says 758 candidates barred from key polls 15/01/00
• "Butcher" of Iranian revolution rallies to reformist president 14/01/00
• Iran body bars many reformers from crucial polls 09/01/00
• Election candidate vetting body denies partiality 06/01/00
• Iran interior ministry rejects 400 candidates for MP elections 29/12/99
• Iranian parliament gives new powers to elections body 28/12/99

Weapons

• Iran tapped Russia, China for weapons of mass destruction technology: CIA 02/02/00
• C.I.A. Tells Clinton an Iranian A-Bomb Can't Be Ruled Out 17/01/00
• Iran postpones decision on joining test ban treaty commission 04/01/00
• Iran's Missile Ambitions 27/12/99
• Iranian anti-stealth 10/12/99
• Iran Revolutionary Guards to test new missile 2/11/99
• World arms sales steady despite markets crises - 21/10/99
• Iran’s Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction - 06/10/99
• Iran's Nuclear Facilities: a Profile - 1998
• Iranian nuclear imports  - 1998
• Landmine Treaty Ratified by Forty Countries in Record Time 17/09/98
• Landmines in Iran 01/97
• Countries and Territories Affected by Landmines 06/01/97

Industry and technology

• Iran's energy consumption twice the world average 25/01/00
• Iran suspends all surgery over millennium bug fears 29/12/99
• Iran grounds New Year flights on Y2K concern 28/12/99
• An Opinion Poll About The Use of Satellites in Iran 13/12/99
• Iran's Telecoms Free From Y2K Bug, Minister Says 13/12/99
• Iran Warns Public About Possible Y2K Disruptions 03/12/99
• Internet Set to Transform Mideast Trade 11/11/99
• India, Syria, Iran adept at e-raids 3/11/99
• In a Spin Over the Web: Cautious Arab States Confront Challenges Of Unleashing Internet - 26/07/99
• Each Tehrani Household Produces 1.5 Tons of Trash Annually 13/01/99