Mediators move closer to extending US-Iran ceasefire

MEDIATORS moved closer today to extending the ceasefire between the United States and Iran and restarting negotiations to salvage the fragile truce before it expires next week.  A senior Iranian military official threatened to halt trade in the region if the […]

A Tribute to Iran’s Soulful and Revolutionary Cinema

ByEileen Jones With President Donald Trump recently threatening to destroy Iranian civilization itself, the country’s filmmakers carry on their long tradition of defiant, deeply human cinema forged under censorship, imprisonment, and war. With the people of Iran now targeted by […]

CODIR Cautiously Welcomes Ceasefire

Declaration of conditional ceasefire represents a step forward towards achieving a sustainable peace CODIR cautiously but relievedly welcomes the announcement on Tuesday night of a “conditional ceasefire” and two-week cessation of the illegal war being waged on Iran by the […]

Join us to campaign foran end to the US/Israeli War Crimes in Iran

Having reduced Gaza and the long-suffering Palestinian people to a state of ruin and desolation, the US-Israeli axis of destruction has now turned its ruinous gaze and intent towards Iran – with Donald Trump waxing not-so-lyrical, over the Easter festival […]

Iran: President Trump’s apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation demand urgent global action to prevent atrocity crimes

7 April 2026 Responding to the United States President Donald Trump’s statement about Iran on Truth Social on 7 April 2026, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of […]

 

CODIR calls for solidarity with striking oil workers in Iran

10th December 2025 Press release For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has today issued a call to trade unions in Britain to back the demands of oil workers in Iran, in their struggle […]

Iran – peace will give the Iranian people a chance

Agnes Avagyan Karikaturen | Credit: www.Live-Karikaturen.ch, CC BY-SA 4.0

By Steve Bishop The right to life is a basic human right which is invariably jeopardised in a war situation and undermined entirely when that war has no legal basis or legitimacy.  The attacks upon Iran, by Israel and the […]

Campaigners pledge to build labour movement solidarity with the people of Iran

THE Committee for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights (Codir) marked its AGM on Saturday by calling for increased solidarity with the Iranian working class. Campaigners gathered online at the weekend for the annual general meeting, with attendees taking part from across Britain, […]

Anisha Asadollahi, Iranian trade unionist, must be freed!

CODIR Join Iranian trade union movement and Calls for the immediate release of Iranian trade unionist: Anisha Asadollahi must be freed Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) Anisha Asadollahi, a teacher, translator, and supporter […]

Iran – heading towards an existential crisis

24 November 2025 THE threat of further attacks upon Iran, following the bombings by Israel and the United States in June 2025, looms large in the thinking of the Iranian people. The leadership of the Islamic Republic is however corrupt, […]

Death in Custody?!

Suspicious Death of Farzad Khosh Boresh in Sari Intelligence Detention Centre Wednesday 19 November 2025 Witnesses reported having seen extensive bruising on Farzad Khosh Boresh’s body following his death in the Sari Intelligence Detention Centre.  His family suspect this resulted […]

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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 […]