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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 Data Charter (Author: Delfina Grinspan and Jesse Worker) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This pos

For the last 100 years, the petroleum industry has been Iran’s main source of revenue, and it is likely to retain that position for decades to come. However, as with everything else in Iran over the last four decades, the 1979 revolution and the global reaction to Islamic Republic’s foreign policies

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 Charter (Author: Marisa Miodosky and María Eugenia Lago) is one of the resources we have made available in Persi

Officials in Tehran call the Headquarters for the Restoration of Holy Shrines (HRHS) a charitable organization that helps rebuild and maintain the shrines of Shia Imams and other religious sites across several countries including Iraq and Syria. The agency falls under the auspices of the Iranian Rev

In most countries, energy consumption is an indicator of economic development. That is to say, the higher the energy consumption, the bigger the economic development. Iran, however, is an exception to this general rule. The Iranian government data shows that in recent years an exponential growth in

 In mid-January 2021, several major cities in Iran experienced power outages and widespread blackouts. Officials at the time attributed these blackouts to a variety of factors. Some blamed bitcoin mining and natural gas shortages while others blamed rising electricity consumption of the residen

Bribery goes by many names in Iran -- “under the table,” “tea money,” “share for the guys,” and “goodies”-- but however you refer to it, the rampant graft has long been a key feature of Iran’s administrative systems. Local municipalities, law enforcement agencies, courts, and the National Tax Admini

One of the worst practices in Iran’s energy sector is flaring and venting of huge volumes of Natural Gas, which the Iranian Oil Minister, Bijan Zanganeh, has recently described as if the country was “burning gold and Dollar.”When crude oil is produced, the process releases natural gas as a by-produc

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: Alex Macbeth) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post original

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 is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post originally appeared here. Led by the Nati

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: Yevhenii Hrytsenko) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post or

The Iranian media tend to show clips of local smugglers on motorbikes carrying large Gasoline cans across the border. However, smuggling millions of litres per day requires much more sophisticated organisation and support of border control teams. The small scale smuggling by local people is a tiny p