Oman Brinkmanship: Can Diplomacy Avert a Wider Middle East War?

By Ziba Akhavan, CODIR E-Newsletter, February 6, 2026 The quiet coastal capital of Muscat has once again become the most critical geography in the Middle East. After days of conflicting reports and a volatile fluctuation in the Iranian rial, the […]

NOBEL LAUREATE NARGES MOHAMMADI BEGINS HUNGER STRIKE AMID IRANIAN CRACKDOWN

By Ziba Akhavan, CODIR_e-Newsletter, February 6, 2026 Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a tireless champion for human rights, has launched a hunger strike from her place of detention in Mashhad, Iran. The strike, which began on […]

Stop state-sponsored child-killing, child-imprisonment, and child-abduction

Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations (CCITTA) Wednesday, February 4, 2026 A child is not a criminal, and a prison is no place for a child. A child’s place is at home, in school, and among family and friends. […]

Killing on a mass scale: piecing together the full picture of Iran’s brutal crackdown

In this week’s newsletter: witness accounts reveal how violence escalated in Iran; and how millions of deepfake nudes have been shared on Telegram On Thursday 8 January, after weeks of swelling protests, Iran went dark. Almost everything went offline: internet, messaging, social […]

Donors Trust, a dark money group with deep ties to Supreme Court mastermind Leonard Leo, donated more than $2.7 million to the far-right, anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy from 2020 to 2023. (Nordin Catic / Getty Images for the Cambridge Union)

Right-Wing Dark Money Groups Want Regime Change in Iran

ByFreddy Brewster As Donald Trump threatens a military attack on Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections and roll back abortion rights have also been pouring millions into influential think tanks advocating for regime change in the country. […]

 

Oman Brinkmanship: Can Diplomacy Avert a Wider Middle East War?

By Ziba Akhavan, CODIR E-Newsletter, February 6, 2026 The quiet coastal capital of Muscat has once again become the most critical geography in the Middle East. After days of conflicting reports and a volatile fluctuation in the Iranian rial, the […]

NOBEL LAUREATE NARGES MOHAMMADI BEGINS HUNGER STRIKE AMID IRANIAN CRACKDOWN

By Ziba Akhavan, CODIR_e-Newsletter, February 6, 2026 Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a tireless champion for human rights, has launched a hunger strike from her place of detention in Mashhad, Iran. The strike, which began on […]

Stop state-sponsored child-killing, child-imprisonment, and child-abduction

Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations (CCITTA) Wednesday, February 4, 2026 A child is not a criminal, and a prison is no place for a child. A child’s place is at home, in school, and among family and friends. […]

Killing on a mass scale: piecing together the full picture of Iran’s brutal crackdown

In this week’s newsletter: witness accounts reveal how violence escalated in Iran; and how millions of deepfake nudes have been shared on Telegram On Thursday 8 January, after weeks of swelling protests, Iran went dark. Almost everything went offline: internet, messaging, social […]

Right-Wing Dark Money Groups Want Regime Change in Iran

Donors Trust, a dark money group with deep ties to Supreme Court mastermind Leonard Leo, donated more than $2.7 million to the far-right, anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy from 2020 to 2023. (Nordin Catic / Getty Images for the Cambridge Union)

ByFreddy Brewster As Donald Trump threatens a military attack on Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections and roll back abortion rights have also been pouring millions into influential think tanks advocating for regime change in the country. […]

CODIR condemns US sabre rattling and calls for dialogue with Iran

29th January 2026 Press release – For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has today issued a call to the trade union and peace movement in Britain to back the international outcry against the […]

Statement by the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Condemning the Massacre of the Protesting People

The oppressed people of our country are once again mourning their children. This time, the killing of protesters opposing the Islamic Republic’s economic and social policies is even more widespread and horrific than the street massacres of the 1980s, as […]

NEU strongly condemns the brutal repression of protests in Iran

The National Education Union (NEU) strongly condemns the brutal repression of peaceful protestors in Iran by the country’s security forces with thousands killed and hundreds arrested.  The Iranian regime has intensified its crackdown on human rights and on trade union activists. We stand in solidarity with all human rights defenders, with Iranian trade unionists, and with […]

CODIR calls for an immediate end to all executions in Iran!

Human and labour rights under attack in Iran

22 January, 2026 IndustriALL Global Union condemns the escalating violence against largely peaceful protesters in Iran, alongside the total shutdown of the internet and social media that has cut the country off from the outside world. The communications blackout is […]