The air in several cities of Khuzestan Province has reached the red alert level, meaning it is unhealthy for all groups. In Isfahan and Mashhad, air quality is reported to be at an orange level, unhealthy for sensitive groups. According to air quality monitoring data on Friday, October 24, the city of Hoveyzeh, with an […]| Iran Focus
LONDON, October 11, 2025 — At Church House Westminster, lawmakers, human rights advocates, and international dignitaries convened for a major conference marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty. The event, organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), focused on Iran’s alarming execution record and amplified support for the democratic vision of […]| Iran Focus
The 92nd week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign continues in 54 prisons across Iran. With the prisons of Ilam and Borujerd joining the campaign last week, the number of prisons participating in the hunger strike of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” movement has reached 54. In this week’s statement of the “No to […]| Iran Focus
Amnesty International announced that since the beginning of 2025, more than 1,000 executions have been reported in Iran and called for their immediate halt. The international human rights organization reported that executions in Iran are carried out after unfair trials and with the aim of suppressing protests and minorities. Hussein Baoumi, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director […]| Iran Focus
The 90th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign was held in 52 prisons across Iran, with participating prisoners going on a hunger strike. A part of the statement referring to the World Day Against the Death Penalty reads: “Coinciding with the World Day Against the Death Penalty, prisoners participating in the ‘No to […]| Iran Focus
Ghasem Abutalebi, head of Iran’s regime Nurse Council, announced that the country is facing a shortage of 165,000 nurses. At the same time, Abbas Ebadi, the regime’s deputy minister of nursing at the Ministry of Health, attributed the delay in paying nurses’ arrears to two main reasons: the failure to allocate budget bonds and the […]| Iran Focus
Mohammad Sharifi-Moghaddam, secretary-general of the Nurses’ Association of Iran, reported that “around 60,000 to 70,000” unemployed nurses in Iran are unwilling to return to work. Speaking to the state-run Ham-Mihan daily on Saturday, October 18, Sharifi-Moghaddam said, “A salary below 200 million rials (approximately 180$) for a woman with two children only covers childcare expenses, […]| Iran Focus
Mohammad Reza Raiszadeh, head of Iran’s regime Medical Council, warned about the growing crisis of specialist shortages, stating that “in a few years,” even Iran’s major cities will face a shortage of pediatricians. On Sunday, October 12, Raiszadeh said: “We have a shortage of pediatric specialists in Iran, and we must ask why our general […]| Iran Focus
Last week, the United States sanctioned a transnational network for its involvement in a multi-year scheme aimed at supplying spare helicopter parts—and even a complete U.S.-made helicopter—to the armed forces of Iran’s regime. In 2024, the U.S. government had also targeted several individuals involved in the same scheme through a civil forfeiture case. Since then, […]| Iran Focus
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