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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: ROMINA COLMAN) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post origina

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

The oil-rich but otherwise poor southern province of Khuzestan is an important contributor to Iran's economy. Steel, sugar, agriculture and electricity are some of the important resources produced by this province. But it is Khuzestan’s oil and gas fields as well as its petrochemical industries that

The Qom Monorail project was intended to develop urban transportation and reduce traffic in Qom. The project started in 2009 and was planned to be completed by 2011. The railway was intended to be built in two phases for a total of 18 kilometers (km). The first phase was about 7 km with 5 stations.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 (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 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

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

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

The practice of setting minimum wage in Iran goes back to almost half a century ago. The government measure was aimed at guaranteeing the purchasing power of a group of people who have traditionally had the lowest income levels. But currently the income value and the purchasing power of Iranian work