By Parisa Hafezi April 23, 2024 DUBAI, April 23 (Reuters) – The same day Iran launched its first ever direct attack on Israel it embarked on a less-noticed confrontation at home, ordering police in several cities to take to the streets to arrest […]
Lina Khatib The country is on the defensive. While Israel has ironclad support from its allies, Tehran is vulnerable and isolatedMon 22 Apr 2024 11.13 BSTShare Tit-for-tat confrontation between Israel and Iran has sparked concerns about escalation dragging the Middle East into […]
Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri, and Other Ethnic Communities Apparently Targeted (Beirut) – Iran’s security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees while repressing widespread protests in 2022 and 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. The grave abuses are part of a broader pattern […]
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
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 […]
24 June, 2021Workers at oil and gas projects and petrochemical plants have gone on strike in South Pars, in Tehran and across Iran as part of coordinated action called Strike Campaign 1400, referring to the current year in the Iranian […]
Published by House of Commons Library On 18 June 2021, Iran elected Ebrahim Raisi as its next President. A conservative hardliner, with vastly different views to outgoing reformist President, Hassan Rouhani, his election has potentially far-reaching implications for change in […]
18th June 2021 With Iranian presidential elections scheduled for 18 June and the latest round of talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal underway, the Islamic Republic is reaching a critical point. Jane Green assesses the implications… […]
Iranian rights campaigners have warned that upcoming presidential elections will be the least free yet, with an unprecedented number of candidates disqualified. As the presidential election campaign in Iran enters its final two weeks – with the election set to […]
Free all women political prisoners in Iran! On 27 May 2021, media outlets in Iran and from around the world reported that the courts in the Islamic Republic of Iran have sentenced Ms. Narges Mohammadi – a noted human rights […]
UN nuclear inspectorate chief asks Tehran to ‘come clean’ about uranium found at three sites Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Wed 26 May 2021 Iran’s failure to provide credible explanations for traces of uranium found at two undeclared sites is “a big […]
Biden’s attitude towards the Middle East is beginning to take shape as Iran builds towards a presidential election of its own. STEVE BISHOP senior Executive Council of CODIR considers the issues facing the leadership in both countries IRAN’S national democratic […]
A leaked gossipy interview with Iran’s outgoing foreign minister confirms that the Revolutionary Guards’ domination is much more advanced than previously imagined https://newlinesmag.com/ Arash Azizi Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of Iran, smiling at a UN meeting in New […]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 29 April 2021 Iranian authorities are banning members of the persecuted Baha’i minority from burying their loved ones in empty plots at a cemetery near Tehran that they have used for decades, instead insisting they bury […]
CODIR’s message and contribution to London online May Day 2021 event on 1st May.
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