The Islamic Republic has long sent thousands of people to visit the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) in southwestern Iran. These pilgrims, more commonly known as Rahian-e Noor in Persian (the passengers of light), were at the outset part of an ostensibly “grassroot and spontaneous" moveme
The phrase “White Marriage”, which was derived from the French term “Mariage Blanc” to refer to an unconsummated marriage, has become commonplace in Iran in the past few years. Some people in Iran believe that the term “white” has been employed to mean “blank”, since these marriages are not recorded
Over the past 8 years, more than 1,077,000 female child marriages have occurred in Iran, according to the country’s official data. This figure represented more than a fifth of all marriages registered between 2014 and 2021. The religious city of Mashhad in eastern Iran with more than 4,000 cases had
Numerous entities, under the direct order of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are receiving a larger share of the country’s 2022 budget. One of such institutions is Al-Mustafa International University (MIU), which is a network of religious seminaries based in the Shia holy city of Qom
In a new IOD survey, a third of Iranian participants have stated that they had experienced power outages in the fall of 2021 when Iran faced sweeping blackouts. The average blackout for the respondents was three hours a day; the data also suggests that 96% of the participants had access to the urban
Iran's economy is in decline: inflation is soaring to double-digits, and the government is badly short of cash because it can't sell much of its oil in exchange for hard foreign currency. Still, the drafters of Iran's annual budget in recent years have found sufficient financial resources to substan
Iran Open Data polled Iranian social media users about their experiences with larceny. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents stated that their cell phones, purses and bags, or other belongings had been stolen on the streets. Of the respondents who said they were victims of larceny, 39% said their po
In Iran's 2022 budget bill, President Ebrahim Raisi's administration allocated more than 54.8 trillion tomans (around $13 billion USD) for “maintaining public order and security.” The figure not only constitutes a 14% increase compared to the previous year but has also amounted to 25 times more than
The Caspian Sea has significant hydrocarbon resources. All Caspian littoral states, namely Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and the Republic of Azerbaijan except Iran have been making billions of dollars by producing the hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian Sea. In 1998, Iran founded Khazar Explora
In a new Iran Open Data survey inside Iran, half of the participants said they were infected by the coronavirus. Eleven percent said they, at least, had one death in their immediate family due to the coronavirus. Additionally, 70% of the participants that tested positive had their tests conducted by
On October 30, 2021, Friday public prayers resumed in Tehran after a 20-month cancellation due to the Coronvirce pandemic. In his first sermon, Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari, the head of the Friday Prayer Policy Council (FPPC) and Tehran’s interim leader of the Friday congregational prayer, called t
Iran Open Data analysis of the country's 2021 appropriations bill indicates that the Iranian parliament, Majlis, has allocated twice as much money to the Supreme Leader Representation in Universities (SLRU) as the government had originally requested.The government had initially requested 211 billion
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