Cyber attacks are fairly common these days, it happens to international banks and most governmental organisations. However, the Iranian government seems to attract a higher share of cyber attacks than most other countries.The recent cyberattack on Iran’s fuel distribution system caused a lot of pain
In recent years the Islamic Republic has broken with Iran's long tradition of closely supervising its oil and gas exports. This tradition, which dates back to the days of Mohmmad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was perhaps disrupted first during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013). After the intern
Business is booming between Iran and Venezuela, as they are expected to sign a 20-year cooperation accord when the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, visits Tehran in the next few months.Both countries, who are under the U.S. sanctions, have also recently struck a new agreement to swap Venezuela'
Iran's average economic growth during the four decades of the 1979 Islamic Republic has been nearly a fifth of the average growth rate of the last two decades before the revolution, according to Iran's Central Bank’s data.Iran’s economy grew, on average, by 9.1% annually between 1960 and 1979, while
In a new nationwide poll by Iran Open Data, 84% of respondents reported access to piped drinking water; a third of whom said they experience water shut offs for more than three hours a day.Water crisis is a global problem. According to the Guardian newspaper, 20% of 41 countries studied around the w
The disparity between household average incomes between Iranian provinces paints a clear picture of income inequality and the inefficient system of income distribution in the country.According to the latest government data released in 2021, the disparity between the annual average income in the urba
This giant political hot potato could cost Iran billions of dollars in penalties and fines, yet no one in Tehran wants to touch it. The 2001 contract for gas exports between the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the UAE-based Crescent Petroleum , has long been tarnished by allegations of bribe
In a recent survey, about a third of participants have told Iran Open Data that they received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of September. According to this poll, China's Sinopharm was the most used, followed by AstraZeneca and Iran's Barekat vaccines. According to the World Health
The latest Iran Open Data poll sheds new light on the taboo subject of alcohol consumption in Iran: 48% of adults reported that they drank alcohol. Most alcohol consumers use handmade alcoholic beverages, according to a new IOD data call.Alcohol consumption is forbidden in Iran. Individuals caught c
The latest data from the Statistics Center of Iran shows that about 54% of the country's GDP in 2019 was concentrated in only five provinces. The Tehran province, where the sprawling capital city of Tehran is located, had the highest share of the GDP among the 31 provinces, at 21.7%. The oil-rich bu
The number of Iranians getting divorced are on the rise, according to the latest data from the country's Statistics Center.While the number of marriages in Iran, too, increased during the period between 2019 and 2020 by 4.4%, reaching 556,731 cases, the divorce rates rose by 3.6%, reaching 183,193 c
The southern province of Khuzestan has recently become the center of a new crisis in Iran. Anti-regime protests have erupted in many of its cities, which have been met by deadly response of the security forces. But the protests, sparked by the province’s water shortage, are not the only problem that
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