7th October 2026 Press release For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has warned that escalation of the illegal aggression initiated by the US/Israeli axis upon Iran will worsen further the lives of the […]
Tuesday 6th October 2026 – In a statement marking World Teachers’ Day – referencing the 60th anniversary of the joint ILO/UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers – the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA) in Tehran declared […]
IRAN and the United States held hours of mediated talks on the margins of the United Nations general assembly in New York on Tuesday. The talks came on the same day that US President Donald Trump told the assembly that he […]
Ervand Abrahamian05 September 2026Politics When you spoke to NLR earlier this year, Iran had just emerged from the repression of the January protests. How do you see the domestic situation after six months of war? How close is the country to another […]
3rd September 2026 Press release The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has warned that the renewed escalation of the conflict between the US/Israeli axis and Iran has already hit the Iranian people hard and is likely […]
The Iranian authorities are doubling down on their oppressive methods of policing and severely oppressing Iranian women and girls for defying degrading compulsory veiling laws, Amnesty International said today. In a detailed analysis published today, the organization exposes the authorities’ intensified nationwide crackdown on women and girls who choose not to wear headscarves in public. In the latest escalation on 16 July, the spokesperson of Iran’s police, Saeed Montazer-Almahdi, announced the return of police […]
Iranian pensioners have resumed their protests in towns and cities across Iran, once more resounding their calls for human and democratic rights, as well as social justice – against the fraught backdrop following the months-long popular uprising in the country […]
After nationwide protests last year and increasing numbers of women defying the headscarf law, the “morality police” had effectively disappeared from the streets of Iran. But the authorities have launched a new campaign to enforce the law. On Sunday, Saeid Montazeralmahdi, a […]
BY: AFSHIN MATIN-ASGARI The Iranian leadership has managed to contain the biggest protest wave since the 1979 revolution. De-escalation of geopolitical tensions with the US would help the protesters, making it harder to depict domestic dissent as the product of foreign […]
– Iran Jails and Threatens Human Rights Attorneys – At Least 44 Defence Attorneys Arrested Since September 2022 The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) notes with deep concern the latest move by the Islamic Republic dictatorship in […]
Iran faced calls on Wednesday from top UN-appointed rights investigators to halt the executions of people sentenced to death in connection with anti-Government demonstrations that have continued since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini last September. “We have expressed […]
The Council decided today to impose a ninth package of restrictive measures on an additional 7 individuals responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran. The new listings include the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Isfahan province and the Deputy Judge of […]
Tehran’s mayor Alireza Zakani – an ultra-radical of the Iranian regime – has been invited to attend the Brussels Urban Summit, and even though he is not on the sanctions list, his presence in Brussels was questioned, notably in light […]
Growing labour unrest is keeping the revolution alive and threatening the ruling establishment AUTHOR: Hamid Mohseni If we are to understand and evaluate the situation faced by the striking workers in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), it is essential […]
Iranian authorities have executed at least 173 people convicted of drug-related offences this year after systematically unfair trials, nearly three times more than this time last year, Amnesty International said today. Executions for drug-related offences make up two thirds of […]
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