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Iran: Nursing students protests across the country

Nursing students and their professors at the University of Medical Sciences in Isfahan formed a human chain on Monday, November 30, 2015, to protest a recent Health Ministry directive to hospitals to train people for nursing without having to attend courses at school, according to the website of the NCRI Women’sCommittee.

They demanded cancellation of the government decision in this regard.

On the same day, nursing students at the Medical School of Neishaboor (central north Iran) staged a protest and signed a petition demanding cancellation of the plan for one-year training of nurses at hospitals.

On Saturday, November 28, students of nursing at the University of Tabriz staged a gathering and signed a petition calling for cancellation of nurses' training at hospitals.

On Monday, November 30, the Nursing Community of Aligoodarz (southwest Iran) joined students in other cities and wrote an open letter to officials describing the Health Ministry's plan as "anti-popular" and a serious blow to the country's social health.

Iran: Baha’ii women reportedly arrested

Sixteen Baha'iis were arrested

Sixteen Baha'iis were arrested on Monday, November 14, 2015, in Tehran, Isfahan and Mashhad. The women among those arrested were: Negar Bagheri, Nava Monjazeb, Helia Moshtaq (Tehran);

Parvin Nik-Ayeen, Yeganeh Agahi, Matin Janemian (Isfahan); Sanaz Es'haqi, Nika Pakzadan, Faraneh Daneshgari, Nakissa Hajipoor and Naghmeh Zabihian (Mashhad).

It is not yet clear why, on what charges and where these detainees are held.

Iranian regime’s casualties mount in Syria and Iraq

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A commander of the Iranian regime’s paramilitary Bassij Force from Isfahan, central Iran, has been killed in Syria in the country’s civil war, the regime’s state media said on Monday. Hamidreza Daei Taqi was commander of the Bassij base called Al-Mehdi Shams Abadi, according to the website of the commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force Qassem Soleimani.

Hassan Shemshadi, a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) member who is operating in Syria under the cover of a reporter wrote in the social media that battles in northern, southern, and southwestern Aleppo, as well as north of Latakia, have been intense. He disclosed the role of the IRGC in Syria’s civil war and stated that the machination and planning for the operation, as well as training, equipping and transfer of forces, took five months and it is a week now that the operation has begun.