Skyrocketing prices of essential food items drives more low-income households in Iran into poverty!  

According to a BBC report on 24 October 2024, 30% of the Iranian population live below the poverty line. Yet Iran is one of the richest countries in West Asia with huge oil, gas, and mineral resources. The policies of the […]

Interview: The Ongoing Struggle of Iran’s Teachers

Shiva Ameli-Rad, Leading Advocate for Teachers’ Rights in Iran, speaks About the Teachers’ Movement and the Woman Life Freedom Uprising One of the most active female advocates for teacher’s rights in Iran, Shiva Ameli-Rad began her activities in 2005 in […]

The Iranian oil workers’ protest grows ever more fervent!

CODIR calls for urgent support for workers in Iran’s oil industry as they mark the twelfth week of industrial action in pursuit of their basic rights. According to a report by Syndicate Messenger, a publication produced by the Union of Metalworkers […]

CODIR calls for peaceful resolution of all disputes in the region!

Steve Bishop argues that the US failure to restrain Israel is pushing the region towards wider war, with an attack on Iran likely to have devastating consequences

CODIR Calls for urgent solidarity with striking workers in Iran:

Project workers at South Pars Gas Refineries Strike for the Eleventh Consecutive Week

 

URGENT ACTION – TORTURED IRANIAN KURD AT RISK OF EXECUTION

Arsalan Khodkam, from Iran’s Kurdish minority, is at risk of execution in West Azerbaijan province. He was sentenced to death for “spying” after a grossly unfair trial that lasted about 30 minutes and relied on “confessions” he says were obtained […]

Huge strike wave hits Iranian energy sector

4 August, 2020Thousands of workers have taken strike action in Iran’s South Pars gas fields, protesting the late payment of wages and poor working conditions. About 10,000 workers have stopped work as a wave of wildcat strike action has hit […]

Press release – Solidarity organisation calls for support for striking oil workers

3rd August 2020 For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has appealed to trade unions in the UK to support oil workers across Iran in their demands to be paid for their work. […]

Iran: Leaked official letters reveal state denial of COVID-19 crisis in prisons

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 31 July 2020 Leaked official documents newly obtained by Amnesty International reveal that the Iranian government has ignored repeated pleas by senior officials responsible for managing Iran’s prisons for additional resources to control the spread of […]

IndustriALL Global Union in solidarity with oil and gas workers in Iran

Dear sisters and brothers, I am writing this letter to you as the General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, which represents more than fifty million workers in mining, energy and manufacturing sectors in more than 140 countries, to express our full support […]

Press release – Solidarity organisation calls for justice for student activist

27th July 2020 For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has appealed to trade unions in the UK to support the quashing of charges against Bahareh Hedayat, a well-known student activist, women rights […]

Iran: Two Kurds executed amid increasing use of death penalty as weapon of repression

There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran, Amnesty International said today, following the executions on 13 July of two Kurdish men in Urumieh prison in […]

Iranian sugarcane workers strike enters 29th day in defiance of clerical regime

IRANIAN sugarcane workers staged their 29th day of strike action today in a dispute over unpaid wages and a demand for their factory to be returned to the public sector. The workers at the Haft Tappeh sugarcane factory in Shush, […]

HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER’S LIFE AT RISK OF COVID-19

URGENT ACTION Imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who suffers from serious pre-existing health conditions, is showing suspected COVID-19 symptoms. The authorities are putting her health and life at risk by denying her health care and holding her in […]

Iranian court sentences workers to flogging, forced labour and prison

The Arak criminal court has sentenced 42 workers from Azarab Industries to one year in prison, 74 lashes, and one month of forced labour. The workers are being punished for protesting the non-payment of wages after the privatization of Azarab […]