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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

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Contracting Partnership (By ANTONIO HERRERA AND ELIO VAZQUEZ, INAI ) is one of the resources we have made available in Persi

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Carter (Author: Natalia Norori) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post originally appeare

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Charter (Author: Darine Benkalha) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post originally appea

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Charter (by Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young, Andrew Zahuranec, Susan Ariel Aaronson, Ania Calderon, Matt Gee) is one of

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

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