Chronic air pollution has smothered Iranian cities for decades, portending potentially fatal health effects for its residents and an unresolved conundrum for the government.  Experts generally assess air pollution as a complex issue caused by multiple...

In terms of energy supply, the small Persian Gulf coastal town of Asalouyeh is both Iran’s strategic strong point and its greatest vulnerability. Located in the Bushehr province, east of the Strait of Hormoz, Asalouyeh has been reshaped by the...

The European Union’s sanctions on Russian gas imports in reaction to that country’s invasion of Ukraine last year rekindled Iran’s long-standing ambitions to export natural gas to Europe. But these ambitions were yet again thwarted by Iran’s...

Gas heating supply cuts have become a recurring theme in Iran for the past several winters, with the government regularly recommending that households turn off their heaters for 6 or more hours per day. For many, this is an inexplicable situation in a...

Iran’s controversial nuclear program provides the country with less than 1% of its electricity, even as its citizens bear the burden of crippling economic sanctions targeted at controversial nuclear enrichment its leaders maintain is for power...

About 60% of respondents to Iran Open Data’s December 2022 survey stated they participated in last year’s nationwide protests, which were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in Morality Police custody. Men said they participated in...

Iran’s strategic alliance with China is costing the Islamic republic $84 million per week in lost oil sales, according to Iran Open Data’s analysis of oil industry figures.  Two recent global developments, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the...

An Iran Open Data poll shows that Iranian people are seldom involved in charitable activities. Although 75% of the poll takers state they have made material or non-material charitable contributions, less than a fifth of them are members of charitable...

According to a recent Iran Open Data poll, 8 out of every 10 women have been in public without hijab in the last one or two months. But nearly 90% of them state that they sometimes, or always, carry a scarf or a shawl with them. Although 70% of women...

Statistics published by human rights activists indicate that at least 448 people, including 63 children, lost their lives in the first 70 days of the protests in Iran. As of November 28th, 6 people, including children, were being killed by government...

More than 46% of urban Iranian households and 64% of rural households do not own a car, official statistics show, despite a marked overall increase in car ownership rates in the past 15 years. Comparing the number of vehicles with the number of...

Nearly two months have passed since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, at the hands of Iran's morality police sparked nationwide protests. So far, the Islamic republic's effort to violently suppress the uprising has resulted in...

Ambitiously conceived as Iran’s main tourist and commercial hub, Kish Island had been touted by numerous governments as a free-trade zone and the future recipient of major foreign investment. But, more than a decade since these plans were first...

About 61 percent of Iranian women say they had at some point been interrogated or detained by the Morality Police, according to a social media survey conducted by Iran Open Data. Another 71 percent of women stated that at least one of their family...

Marred by a troubled history of supply disruption, the deal Iran signed last year to export gas to its neighbour Turkey may not be possible to realise. Iranian and Turkish officials announced last July a plan to increase Iran’s gas exports from Iran...

The $40-billion agreement last year between the National Iranian Oil Company and Russia’s Gazprom may not be the agreement the Iranian government is hoping for to revamp its investment-needy energy sector. In November 2021, local media quoted Oil...

In a recent speech at the Iranian Association of Chemical Engineering, Malek Shariati Niasar, an MP and a member of the Iranian Parliament’s Energy Commission, criticised the lack of accountability for the sale of LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) in...

While members of Ebrahim Raisi's government insist that Iran's economy has been growing during his presidency, official statistics paint a different picture. 1. Growth rate falls below 4 percent A report by the Statistical Center of Iran that analyses...

The tens of thousands of arrests that followed the widespread protests that erupted in Iran last September following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died while in Morality Police custody have brought public attention to the...

Following the September death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police, protesters in Iran are publically calling for the controversial police unit to be disbanded. But where does the Morality Police’s...

Iran Open Data’s research shows that in 2022, at least 1.42 trillion Tomans (about $26 million, at the exchange rate of 52,650 Tomans/$1) from the government’s general budget is spent on holding the Arba’een parade. This number is twice the budget...