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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 (Author: YEVHEN HRYTSENKO) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian.

The latest data from Iran's Statistical Centre shows that in 2020, the misery index in the country reached 46%, the highest rate in the last decade. The current upward trends in inflation and unemployment rates predict that Iran's misery index could even go higher by the end of 2021.The misery index

Iran’s official statistics show that the budget for religious institutions is about six times higher than its allocation for artistic and cultural heritage. For example, the budget for the construction of the tomb of the Ayatollah Khomeini is 3.5 times higher than the total 30-year maintenance budge

According to Iranian government statistics, nearly half of the nation’s unemployed possess university degrees. Data from the year 2019 shows that thousands of university graduates, including those with master's and doctoral degrees, have turned to driving freight and passenger vehicles as a source o

In recent weeks, Iran has faced a shortage of cooking oil, which has led to a steep price increase. This is while the Iranian government, according to Iran Open Data research, has allocated more than its allocation for importing medicine, heavily subsidized at the government discounted rate of 4,200

Iran Open Data research reveals the new dimensions of the economic activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters. According to research, this economic giant, affiliated with the Office of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, has almost exclusive con

In religious literature, Khatam al-Anbiya and Khatam al-Awsiya are among the titles of the Prophet of Islam. But in the Iranian economy each of these titles are the equivalent of the billions that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) receives from national revenue funds. Iran Open Data resea

The Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters (KAA) is an organization that is heavily involved in all aspects of Iran's economy, so much so that some say it should be called an Infrastructure Empire within the Iranian regime. The KAA has long been suspected of threatening and intimidating private

The Al-Mustafa International University (MIU) is a non-transparent organization under the leadership of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic. In the wake of fresh US sanctions, its name has been repeatedly mentioned in the media.Iran says the Al-Mustafa International University is "training mu

According to official Iranian government data, from the 1979 revolution to the end of 2019, the cumulative rate of inflation in the country reached 189,000 percent. The Iranian Central Bank has not yet released the inflation rate for the year 2020, but if we rely on the rate released by the  St

Last November, the Iranian government set the price for a COVID-19 test at 238,000 Tomans ($56.5) in government hospitals and 302,000 Tomans ($71.7) in private clinics. But Iran Open Data’s research shows that many people, in practice, have paid between two and three times that. IOD also estima

Forty-two years after the 1979 revolution, red meat production, per capita, is half of 1978.The latest data published by the Statistics Center of Iran shows that the per capita production of red meat decreased last year by 3.872 kilograms. The decline is unprecedented, as it marks the lowest product