Archive for February, 2026

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. […]