Marjan Keypour Greenblatt is the founder and director of the Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM), an international network of activists that promotes human rights in Iran. She is also a non-resident scholar with MEI’s Iran Program.
In a country gripped with poverty, a pandemic and repression, mental health tends to rank low on the priorities scale. Despite the lack of transparency, the high rates of suicide and addiction are alarming indicators of a greater mental health crisis in Iran. Those affected face societal and cultural barriers to treatment and recovery.
What is the state of mental health in Iran? What are the gender disparities in mental health and it’s treatment? What is the role of the Iranian government in solving or perpetuating mental illness?
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EXCLUSIVE: Oberlin College is facing fresh criticism for continuing to give a platform to a so-called professor of peace, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who as Iranian ambassador to the United Nations urged the elimination of the Jewish state.
A Fox News Digital investigation can reveal for the first time that Mahallati, a professor of Islamic Studies at the liberal arts college in Ohio, declared to the U.N. in 1988: The adoption, by the General Assembly in 1947, of resolution 181 (II) on the partition of the land of Palestine and the establishment of the Zionist entity was itself in violation of provisions of the United Nations Charter, as well as of the rules of international law.