US strikes strategic railway bridge linking Iran to China: What to know

The railway bridge also links Tehran and other southern cities to Mashhad, where large crowds are gathering for the burial ceremony on Thursday of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Jack Dutton Jul 9, 2026 The United States struck Iran’s Aq Taqeh Khan railway […]

Even as ceasefire frays, Trump and Iran shy away from full war

The United States and Iran are escalating their tit-for-tat strikes, posing the biggest threat yet to their framework deal. Elizabeth HagedornJul 9, 2026 WASHINGTON — A short-lived ceasefire between the United States and Iran is giving way to spiralling violence, […]

CODIR at UNISON National Delegate Conference 2026

CODIR ran a busy and engaging operation at UNISON’s recent National Delegate Conference.  Our information stall was visited by hundreds of delegates.  As in previous years, we ran our stall alongside Liberation (formerly the Movement for Colonial Freedom, established in […]

CODIR condemns the harsh and repressive sentences handed to women activists in Iran

Escalation of crackdowns on Iranian women campaigners:  Theocratic regime sentences one women’s activist to death and another four to imprisonment HRANA News Agency – A review of judicial verdicts issued over the past week indicates that between 26 June and 3 July, […]

US-Iran deal must centre human rights and region must see real and sustainable end to hostilities

18 June 2026 Responding to the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the USA and Iran to end a months-long war that spilled into neighbouring countries, killing more than 6,000 people across the Middle East and rattling the global […]

 

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 […]

Iran: Conditional release of French education unionists brings great relief, but concerns remain for Iranian teacher trade unionists in jail

updated 7 November 2025 After 1,277 days of weaponised detention, French teacher trade unionists Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are now safe within the French embassy in Tehran. While news of their conditional release was received with great joy by Education […]

CODIR Condemns the Arrest of Progressive and Left-Wing Intellectuals in Iran

CALL for ACTION: Protest to the Iranian Embassy against the arrest and detention of Progressive and Left-Wing Intellectuals in Iran Professor Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Asadollahi-Nezhad, and Shirin Karimi, researchers in the fields of social sciences political economy, were arrested on […]

It’s official! The campaign for the stay of execution of Sharifeh Moahmmadi has been successful!

Thanks to a major international campaign of solidarity, Sharifeh Mohammadi’s death sentence has been commuted! Amir Raeesian, the defence lawyer for Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labour activist currently held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, northern Iran, announced that his client’s death […]

Corruption of financial institutions in Iran has bankrupted the economy!

Hossein Raghfar, well-respected Iranian economist: Widespread state corruption has destroyed the Iranian economy and forced millions into poverty! Hossein Raghfar: “61 people received loans totalling 130 trillion tomans (1.3 billion US dollars) from Bank Ayandeh [Future Bank] without collateral and […]