Teachers in Iran have gone on strike for the second time in as many months, protesting low wages. 

With the fall of the Iranian currency, the rial, and rising inflation, teachers cannot make ends meet. 

“The recent financial crisis has impacted teachers in a way such that their income barely feeds them for 15 days. After that, they have to request loans from relatives and shopkeepers,” said one teacher in a phone call with Rudaw.

Judith Neurink berichtet über inhaftierte jugendliche IS-Kämpfer in Irakisch-Kurdistan und macht wenig Hoffnung:

Nein, es ist keineswegs nur Saudi Arabien, das die Verantwortung für die drohende furchtbare Hungersnot im Jemen alleine trägt.

Aus den Gaystarnews:

Tunisia is prosecuting people suspected of being gay under the country’s anti-gay laws.

Thirty-five Yemeni and international NGOs called Wednesday for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in Yemen, where they warned 14 million people were now "on the brink of famine".

The joint appeal was signed by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Action Against Hunger, CARE International, Oxfam, Doctors of the World, and Yemeni organisations, according to a statement.

Kontiunitäten im Irak: Nicht nur unter Saddam wurde das Land mit Massengräbern überzogen, der IS, zum Teil ja eine Gründung ehemaliger Ba'thisten, führte diese blutige Tradition fort:

Die Opfer sind vermutlich Polizisten, Soldaten und Zivilisten: Im Irak sind nach Angaben der Uno in früheren Gebieten des "Islamischen Staats" mehr als 200 Massengräber entdeckt worden.

Iranian infrastructure and strategic networks have come under attack in the last few days by a computer virus similar to Stuxnet but “more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated,” and Israeli officials are refusing to discuss what role, if any, they may have had in the operation, an Israeli TV report said Wednesday.

Ein weiterer iranischer Anschlag in Europa scheint gerade vereitelt worden zu sein. Diesmal in Dänemark. Die dortige Regierung fordert nun von der EU Konsequenzen:

The Danish Government says Iran’s regime plotted to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition leader inside Denmark.

Seit Tagen streiken im Iran erneut Lastwagenfahrer. Inzwischen gibt es auch international einige Solidarität, vor allem angesichts einer Drohung, die Streikenden müssten hingerichtet werden:

Yemen could face the “worst famine in the world in 100 years” if fighting continues, the United Nations has warned, as The Independent learned an official declaration of famine would likely be announced in just a few weeks.

Lise Grande, the UN’s coordinator for Yemen, said that as many as 13 million civilians could die from starvation if a Saudi Arabia-led coalition does not halt its bombardment of the impoverished country.