CODIR Bulletin April 2024 is published!
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
CODIR joins DOIW to protest against upsurge of intimation against women’s right campaigners!
Confirmed reports from Iran indicate that the dictatorial regime there has launched a massive campaign of intimidation, arrest, and maltreatment of women’s rights activists in the country. During the past two weeks many peaceful campaigners have been arrested and transferred […]
The Mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran Extended for Another Year
On 24 November 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution S35/1, on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and decided to establish an independent international fact-finding mission on the Islamic Republic […]
Threat of war, the theocratic regime and anti-imperialism
The region and the world stand today on the brink of an abyss and facing a real threat of a wide regional war, and perhaps an even wider war. NAVID SHOMALI, international secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran, explains […]
Regime Sacks Iranian Teachers’ Trade Union Representative!
The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA) has condemned the unlawful sacking of Ms. Shiva Amelirad, a prominent teacher and trade union activist. The CCITTA subsequently moved to appoint Ms. Amelirad as its senior representative for liaison with […]
August 3rd, 2019 
Iran: Prisoner of conscience flogged 100 times for ‘drinking alcohol and insulting Islam’
1 August 2019, 12:26 UTC Updated: 1 August 2019, 14:44 UTC The flogging of Kurdish singer and prisoner of conscience Peyman Mirzazadeh 100 times demonstrates the shocking brutality of Iran’s justice system, said Amnesty International. Peyman Mirzazadeh had been sentenced […]
Iran expert: Military confrontation is “inevitable”
U.S.-Iran relations expert Ervand Abrahamian says a war between the two countries is inevitable under the Trump administration. “The long-term agenda in the White House… [is] basically the destruction of the Islamic Republic, maybe even the destruction of the state, […]
By punishing Iran, Trump risks a full-scale war between our two countries – Mohammad Khatami
The US president should resist the pressure from his advisers and de-escalate the explosive tensions in the Persian Gulf The British-flagged tanker, Stena Impero, seized in the strait of Hormuz: ‘By exiting the JCPOA, the Trump administration has moved against […]
Iran: Cruel campaign to extract propaganda ‘confessions’ from protesters against compulsory veiling
15 July 2019, 09:15 UTC Iran’s authorities are using incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and threats against family members in order to extract forced video “confessions” from women’s rights defenders detained for campaigning against the country’s discriminatory forced veiling (hijab) laws, […]
Iran: the drive to war intensifies As US rhetoric pressing for a new Middle East war with Iran intensifies, JANE GREEN assesses the issues
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump continues to ramp up rhetoric against Iran as the threat of a further Middle East war becomes greater. Trump claims that he called off air strikes against Iran recently at the last minute, after being told […]
The Hybrid War Against Iran
In 1953, the U.S.—with the UK—overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadeq and over the course of the next two decades provided full support to the unpopular government of the shah of Iran. , Shutterstock U.S. President Donald Trump […]
Those beating the drums for war in Iran must be resisted
There must be every effort to create a movement which clearly says no to war in Iran, says LINDSEY GERMAN ANTI-WAR campaigners are gearing up to oppose new conflicts this summer. The situation in the Gulf is extremely dangerous and […]
A US war with Iran looms. Don’t for one second think that it is justified
Trump’s allies will try to paint Iran as a threat, as they did with Iraq. We must not fall into step with their prefab bloodlust ‘It is clear where we’re heading …’ US Navy patrol boats carry journalists to see […]
UNISON General Secretary questions wisdom of Jeremy Hunt’s support for Trump’s drive to war with Iran!
UNISON National Delegate Conference 2019, Liverpool UNISON’s general secretary, Dave Prentis, spoke yesterday at UNISON’s International Rally ahead of the union’s National Delegate Conference in Liverpool in response to a question from Jamshid Ahmadi, Assistant General secretary of CODIR. Mr […]
British and US push to blame Iran is ‘most dangerous threat of war yet,’ say peace campaigners
Journalist John Pilger warns ‘nothing’ Trump administration says can be trusted BRITISH and US claims that Iran is behind two oil tanker explosions are “the most dangerous threat of war” yet, peace campaigners warned today. US Secretary of State Mike […]
