Ending Lebanon war key to peace, says Iran

Morning Star, 10 May 2026 IRAN says its response to the latest US peace proposals, sent to Pakistan today, focuses on “ending the war imposed by the US and zionist regime on all fronts, especially Lebanon.” The exact contents of the […]

Defending Iran against US and Israeli aggression will be a prolonged struggle

It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS THE entire peace movement opposed the US/Israeli war against Iran. Opposition went well beyond those normally opposing […]

US- Iran impasse threatens world peace

The shockwaves of US intervention in the Middle East can be felt in the West, but as Steve Bishop points out, the way ahead is still uncertain SELF-INTEREST can be a great motiva tor when it comes to the silent […]

How American imperialism is getting bogged down in the Iranian Quagmire

What was mapped out in Washington’s military planning rooms as a lightning campaign to force a swift regime change in Iran has degenerated into a deep quagmire for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. While the White House clings to the […]

War on Iran is War on Workers

By: Ruben Brett While attention has been focused on high-profile killings of state leaders and shocking massacres of civilians by US and Israeli bombing – including 175 primary schoolchildren in Minab on the first day of the unilateral war imposed […]

 

Human and labour rights under attack in Iran

22 January, 2026 IndustriALL Global Union condemns the escalating violence against largely peaceful protesters in Iran, alongside the total shutdown of the internet and social media that has cut the country off from the outside world. The communications blackout is […]

Iran: Caught Between Popular Protest and Foreign Threat

20 January 2026 While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a […]

UNISON statement on Iranian protests

Union stands in solidarity with workers and independent trade unions in Iran UNISON condemns the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown against mass protests in response to the economic and social crisis in Iran. According to reports many hundreds of people, possibly […]

Why nothing will ever be the same again in Iran

While the fog of repression has not yet completely lifted, Iranians are counting their dead. From several hundred reported in the early days of the protests, the number quickly rose to thousands. The testimonies we are receiving are unequivocal. But […]

Iran’s Right to Choose: No Shah, No Theocracy

STATEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT Freedom from theocracy, freedom from the Shah, freedom from US intervention! In a world in continuous upheaval, the situation in Iran demands a clear vision. The massive protests sweeping the nation, which have already seen […]

Inside the forces driving Iran’s nationwide protests

MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal HOW do you assess the deeper socioeconomic forces that have driven people into the streets, […]

Iran: Deaths and injuries rise amid authorities’ renewed cycle of protest bloodshed

Iranian authorities have unleashed a deadly crackdown on protesters across the country since 28 December 2025, marked by security forces’ unlawful use of force and firearms and mass arbitrary arrests, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The organizations’ […]

CODIR – Grave concerns mounting as sheer extent of bloodshed in Iran revealed!

13th January 2026  Press release For immediate us The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has expressed concern at the rapid escalation of killings by the Iran’s security forces over recent days, as protests against poverty and […]

CODIR welcomes protests demanding democratic change in Iran

9th January 2026  The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has today welcomed demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warned against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a […]

Iran’s Leader’ calls for “rioters to be put in their place!”

Support nationwide Protests across all provinces of Iran- Join CODIR’s solidarity actions in Britain with protesters in Iran “RIOTERS must be put in their place,” stated the Islamic Republic regime’s ‘Supreme [Religious] Leader’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday 3 January, […]