CODIR warns of danger of escalation in Iran war

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 […]

The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (Tehran): Suppression of Independent Organisations Must End!

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 US hold talks at the UN on ending the war

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 […]

Exchange Ratio

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 […]

CODIR warns of US tightening screws on Iran

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 […]

 

FIM CISL statement on developments in Iran

A breath of freedom, this is what Mahsa, Hadis, Nika and all those women killed, beaten, arrested were looking for. Women deprived, for too long now, of their dignity. In an Iran increasingly squeezed, on the one hand, in the […]

Oil workers join the campaign for an end to theocratic rule in Iran!

Protesters in Iran welcome this major development! Reports received today (Monday 10 October) from Iran indicate that workers in the country’s oil industry, a powerful sphere of influence, have joined the nationwide protest movement calling for an end to the […]

Iran toughens crackdown as some oil workers reported to join protests

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country’s vital energy sector. Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s […]

Global Unions condemn the brutality of the Iranian authorities and demand the release of all imprisoned trade unionists

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) and the Global Union Federations (GUFs) condemn the continued brutality of the Iranian authorities against their own people and call for stronger international pressure against […]

Shirin Neshat joins protests against Iran’s worsening human rights situation with new digital works

Protesters gathered last night in support of the women of Iran at London's Piccadilly Circus where Shirin Neshat's Woman Life Freedom commission was screened Courtesy of Circa and the artist

Pieces in West Hollywood and London’s Piccadilly are a reaction to the death of 22-year-old student Mahsa Amini, after being detained by authorities in the country The New York-based Iranian artist Shirin Neshat has unveiled a digital art piece in […]

NEU stands in solidarity with women and girls in Iran

The NEU extends solidarity to the women, girls, students and all those protesting in Iran following the death in police custody on 16 September of Mahsa Amini who was detained by Iran’s so-called ‘morality police’ on allegations that she had […]

Angela Davis shows solidarity with the Iranian people’s movement!

Professor Angela Davis, an esteemed and long-time champion of progressive politics in the United States, and prominent activist of the women’s movement as well as other popular campaigns, announced her solidarity with the progressive and radical protest movement that has […]

Iran: At least 82 Baluchi protesters and bystanders killed in bloody crackdown

Iranian security forces unlawfully killed at least 66 people, including children, and injured hundreds of others after firing live ammunition, metal pellets and teargas at protesters, bystanders and worshippers during a violent crackdown after Friday prayers on 30 September in […]

CODIR calls for international solidarity: Brutal attacks on universities signal a looming bloody crackdown by the theocratic regime!

CODIR is alarmed by the numerous reports of Islamic Republic security forces converging upon several university campuses, notably Sharif University in Tehran, which point towards a major onslaught by the regime on protesters being at least imminent if not already […]

Protests in Iran – regime change must come from the people

A woman shows a placard with a photo of of Iranian Mahsa Amini as she attends a protest against her death, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.

As protests grow across Iran following the murder of Mahsa Amini, solidarity with the Iranian people is now more important than ever. JANE GREEN assesses the implications of current developments THE grip of the theocratic dictatorship which has been in […]