According to the Head of Iran's Vital Records Registry Office, some 83.5 million Iranians live inside the country and an estimated 4-4.5 million Iranian-born immigrants (about 5% of the population) live in diaspora, including asylees, refugees, exiled, expats./The U.S. is host ...
Society and Politics Blog, Kodoom.com /Saleh Ghasemi, Head of Iran's Population Studies Center, has shared recent statistics on Iranians in diaspora, including asylees, refugees, immigrants, exiled, expats./According to Ghasemi, out of the world's 260 million immigrants (who ...
Politics News Blog, Kodoom.com /Recently The Guardian shared the tragic story of Fazel Chegeni Nejad, a Faili Kurd, born in Ilam province in western Iran in 1981:/"[He] was already a vulnerable man when he arrived in Australia seeking the most basic of recognition as a human ...
Society and Politics News Blog, Kodoom.com /According to Persian news media, a family of Iranian asylum seekers, including three children, have reportedly drowned when their boat capsized in English Channel./Construction worker Rasoul Iran-Nejad, 35, his wife Shiva Mohammad ...
Politics News and Video Blog /In his recent speech in Pennsylvania, President Trump slammed Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (an immigrant and a naturalized US Citizen, and the first woman of color to hold elective office from Minnesota) and insinuated America is not her country: "She's ...
Entertainment and Culture News Blog, Kodoom.com /This year the Venice Film Festival's MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD for Best Young Actor or Actress was awarded to Rouhollah Zamani for role in the Iranian film KHORSHID (SUN CHILDREN). Zamani along with Shamila Shirzad (pictured ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Forbes has named Iranian Canadian Meti (Mehdi) Basiri, Co-Founder and CMO of ApplyBoard, and his brother Massi Basiri, COO, to three 30 Under 30 lists: Immigrants, Education, and Big Money. The lists—which only four ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: An Iranian asylum seeker was granted entry into Australia from an immigration detention center in Papua New Guinea to undergo pricey reconstructive surgery after he fell seriously ill by injecting himself with palm ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Theodoros Giannaros, member of Greece's ruling conservative New Democracy party was expelled Wednesday afternoon from the party after launching a vicious racist attack on an Iranian refugee and human rights activist ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: According to Deutsche Welle (DW) a German-Iranian father and human rights lawyer who wanted to travel to the United States to attend his son's funeral was denied by the Trump Administration a three-day visa because ...
