CODIR call for the solidarity with thousands of contract workers: Workers demand basic rights in all oil and gas fields in South Pars oilfields

South Pars Gas Complex Outsourced Contract Workers’ Massive Protest Tuesday 11 November 2025 Third party contract workers (outsourced personnel) at the 12 refineries of the South Pars Gas Complex, a major industrial site in southern Iran,staged a massive unprecedented march and […]

PRESS RELEASE- For immediate use: CODIR Executive plans forward looking AGM

12th November 2025  The Executive Committee of the Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) met last night to prepare for its December AGM at a critical time for political developments in Iran and the wider Middle East. Assistant […]

Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian landed himself in hot water on November 6 by broaching the possibility of having to evacuate Iran’s capital, Tehran, if the current water shortage is not […]

Iran: Conditional release of French education unionists brings great relief, but concerns remain for Iranian teacher trade unionists in jail

updated 7 November 2025 After 1,277 days of weaponised detention, French teacher trade unionists Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are now safe within the French embassy in Tehran. While news of their conditional release was received with great joy by Education […]

CODIR Condemns the Arrest of Progressive and Left-Wing Intellectuals in Iran

CALL for ACTION: Protest to the Iranian Embassy against the arrest and detention of Progressive and Left-Wing Intellectuals in Iran Professor Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Asadollahi-Nezhad, and Shirin Karimi, researchers in the fields of social sciences political economy, were arrested on […]

 

CODIR call for the solidarity with thousands of contract workers: Workers demand basic rights in all oil and gas fields in South Pars oilfields

South Pars Gas Complex Outsourced Contract Workers’ Massive Protest Tuesday 11 November 2025 Third party contract workers (outsourced personnel) at the 12 refineries of the South Pars Gas Complex, a major industrial site in southern Iran,staged a massive unprecedented march and […]

PRESS RELEASE- For immediate use: CODIR Executive plans forward looking AGM

12th November 2025  The Executive Committee of the Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) met last night to prepare for its December AGM at a critical time for political developments in Iran and the wider Middle East. Assistant […]

Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian landed himself in hot water on November 6 by broaching the possibility of having to evacuate Iran’s capital, Tehran, if the current water shortage is not […]

Iran: Conditional release of French education unionists brings great relief, but concerns remain for Iranian teacher trade unionists in jail

updated 7 November 2025 After 1,277 days of weaponised detention, French teacher trade unionists Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are now safe within the French embassy in Tehran. While news of their conditional release was received with great joy by Education […]

CODIR Condemns the Arrest of Progressive and Left-Wing Intellectuals in Iran

CALL for ACTION: Protest to the Iranian Embassy against the arrest and detention of Progressive and Left-Wing Intellectuals in Iran Professor Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Asadollahi-Nezhad, and Shirin Karimi, researchers in the fields of social sciences political economy, were arrested on […]

It’s official! The campaign for the stay of execution of Sharifeh Moahmmadi has been successful!

Thanks to a major international campaign of solidarity, Sharifeh Mohammadi’s death sentence has been commuted! Amir Raeesian, the defence lawyer for Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labour activist currently held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, northern Iran, announced that his client’s death […]

Corruption of financial institutions in Iran has bankrupted the economy!

Hossein Raghfar, well-respected Iranian economist: Widespread state corruption has destroyed the Iranian economy and forced millions into poverty! Hossein Raghfar: “61 people received loans totalling 130 trillion tomans (1.3 billion US dollars) from Bank Ayandeh [Future Bank] without collateral and […]

Notice of AGM 2025

Join us to celebrate, plan, and consolidate CODIR’s work! 16:30 – 18:30 (GMT/UTC) Saturday 6 December 2025 The AGM will be an online meeting. All CODIR’s members and affiliates are invited. Email us at codir_info@btinternet.com for further information and registration […]

CODIR Joins the Call by 860 Iranian progressive and democratic personalities: Stop Executions in Iran NOW

Statement by 860 Political, Social, Civil, and Cultural Activists in Support of the Demands of the Striking Political Prisoners of Qezel Hesar and in Protest of the Expansion of Executions in Iran Statement on the Escalation of Executions in Iran As […]

The Autumn of the Ayatollahs What Kind of Change Is Coming to Iran?

Karim Sadjadpour November/December 2025 Published on October 14, 2025 or the first time in nearly four decades, Iran is on the cusp of a change of leadership—and maybe even of regime. As Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s reign nears its end, […]