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Thursday’s Iran Mini Report – May 03, 2018

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· Paper planes fill Tehran skies as protests against Telegram ban persist

As part of a series of protests against ban on messaging app Telegram, Iranians gathered in the capital city of Tehran on Tuesday evening to launch paper planes into the air – the app’s logo.

On Monday, Iran’s judiciary banned Telegram, which the authorities have accused of allowing armed opposition groups to fuel unrest. The app is the most popular means of communication among the local population.

· Eighteenth Day Of The General Strike In Baneh, Iran

On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, market and bazaar merchants started the strike on their eighteenth day in spite of the presence of a large number of anti-riot guards to create fears and threats among the people and and the attempt to arrest activists on strike.

The Internet has also been cut off in the city and the security agencies have alo cut off the electricity in some points of the district.

· Protest Rally Of Plundered People In Aligudarz, Iran

On Wednesday morning, May 2, 2018, looted and plundered victims of the Arman Vahdat Credit Institute in Aligudarz, Iran, gathered in protest to the looting of their property and investments and attempted to close the door of the Melal branch.

The protesters then installed two notices on the closed door of the institute, written on them was: “The Melal Institute, which was supposed to be the savior of the plundered, has become the looters’ partner”, and “Shut down until accounts determination”.

· Air France cuts back on Iran flights due to weak demand

Air France is cutting its Joon subsidiary’s service between Paris and Tehran to the summer season only, due to poor economic performance over two years in operation, an Air France spokeswoman said.

“Air France has decided to adapt its program to better match demand,” the spokeswoman told Reuters in an email message, adding that the decision would take effect from October 28.

Air France’s move comes amid international uncertainty over whether or not US President Donald Trump will pull out of a 2015 deal with Iran.

· Young woman killed herself to protest execution of her uncle

In an act of protest, a young woman, the neice of a death row political prisoner in Iran, took her own life.

Nishtman Hossein Panahi, niece of Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi, committed suicide on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, after she learned that her uncle had been transferred to solitary confinement to be prepared for execution.

She was 25 and with a 4-year-old child. Nishtman’s husband is also imprisoned on a 5-year sentence on the charge of “anti-government propaganda.”

The act of protest by Nishtman has moved the Iranian community all across the world and further outraged the public against the Iranian regime, the world record-holder in per capita executions.

· A Majlis deputy admits “new slavery” conditions of women workers

Women’s presence in Iranian production units without receiving sufficient pay is tormenting.

Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani, a member of the presiding board of the mullahs’ parliament from Qom, asserted the above and added, “Oppression of women in some production units in payment of their wages and long working hours is new slavery.”

The remarks were made in a gathering praising women job creators in the Province of Qom, on Monday night, April 30 2018.

· At least ten women committed suicide in AprilTwo more women committed fatal suicides in Iran.

Sara Zamaneh Dadaneh who lived in Ghafour neighborhood of Sanandaj, jumped from the third floor of a building and died on Monday, April 30, 2018.

Also on Saturday, April 28, 2018, a teenage woman, Ashena Mahmoudi, who lived in Rahimabad neighborhood in Oshnavieh, hanged herself and died.

The number of women who committed fatal suicides in the month of April thus reached 10. Iran holds the record in the Middle East for women’s suicide rate.

· Iran; shooting a porter dead on the int’l labor day

Iranian regime repressive IRGC forces shot dead a border porter on Tuesday, May 1st, in Ghandil Mountains around the city of Piranshahr, western Iran. This heinous crime, especially on the same day as the world celebrates the labor day, shows Iranian mullahs’ regime animosity towards the working class.

The victim is identified as Taher Hekmati with a family of 6 including four children.