Washington Iranian civil society organizations and professionals say suicide rates have reached crisis levels among school students and recent medical school graduates in the past month, with no sign of solutions from the government. Iranian state news agency IRNA acknowledged the worsening of the Islamic republic's suicide problem generally in a January 6 article. It cited Hamid Parvih, the vice president of Iran's Suicide Prevention Scientific Society, as saying about 120,000 people attempted suicide in the Persian year ending March 2023, a 51% increase from the seven years prior. He said more than 6,000 of those attempts ended in death. In a January 26 Telegram post, Iran's largest teachers' union said at least eight primary and secondary school students committed suicide in various parts of the country during the Persian month of Dey that ended January 20. The labor union, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations, described the situation
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The repercussions of professional and economic issues within the medical community in Iran continue to persist. Following extensive emigration within this profession, the suicide rate in the medical c
Iranian healthcare workers are straining to meet the demand in intensive care wards, and dream of leaving the country behind even as the collapsing syst