IFP - This is the story of a woman who sells herbs to make a living; a woman named Fariba whose past is not as colourful as the herbs she sells at the store. Fariba is the owner of an herbs shop. She buys different types of medicinal plants from rural women and sells them. According to a Farsi report by the Shabestan News Agency, ...

At the event, the rehabilitated addicts appealed to others afflicted by addiction to quit. In a symbolic move, a number of Iranian women who have succeeded in beating their drug addiction took part in a march in a Tehran park on October 9. The rehabilitated addicts appealed to others afflicted by addiction to kick the habit. The following ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. An Expediency Council decision to ban the military from getting involved in electoral campaigns dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday. Also on the covers ...

TEHRAN On the western outskirts of this city, in an industrial neighborhood of factories and dusty half-constructed lots, a metal-walled building houses women with a secret. They are female drug addicts, a growing class of people with a habit so taboo in this traditional Islamic society that some Iranians believe they deserve death. But the modest ...

[caption id="attachment_94110" align="alignright" width="207"] Handcuffed suspects sit on the ground after officers arrest and detain suspected drug users and dealers during a sweep in a southern neighborhood of Tehran, April 7, 2009. (photo by REUTERS/Jamejam Online/Chavosh Homavandi)[/caption] TEHRAN, Iran Babak Dinparast, the Deputy for Treatment ...

The Anti-Drug Task Force advisor on women and family affairs reported on Wednesday March 5 that 55 percent of female drug addicts are married. IRNA reports that Zahra Bonyanian told a meeting of the Anti-Drug Force: These women have been forced into addiction because their spouses wanted to prevent them from getting a divorce. A husbands drug addiction ...