USA/Iran: Trump’s warning that USA will attack Iran’s power plants is a threat to commit war crimes
USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful US strike on school that killed over 100 children must be held accountable
Iran: Children among 30 people at risk of the death penalty amid expedited grossly unfair trials connected to uprising
9 June 2026 The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) has issued a warning that the exchange of missile strikes between […]
Tehran’s New Strategic Calculus Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar June 2, 2026 For the last two months, Iran and the United States have carried out fitful, unsuccessful peace negotiations. After striking a very shaky cease-fire agreement at the beginning of April, officials […]
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) attended the National Congress of the University and College Union (UCU) for the fourth year running, in the beautiful spa town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire from 26 – […]
Saturday, May 30, 2026 — Efforts to extend the ceasefire between the United States and Iran and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz have reached a critical juncture; however, it remains uncertain whether what Washington characterizes as an “imminent agreement” […]
Reports received from prisons in Iran clearly indicate a significant escalation of pressure on political prisoners languishing in detention across the country. According to a report published through Iranian social activist networks, eight female political prisoners in the women’s ward […]
CAUT seeks release of Esmail Abdi The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has written to Iranian leader Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei to ask for immediate release of Mr. Esmail Abdi, General Secretary of the Tehran Teacher Trade Association. “The […]
30th May 2017 Press Release For Immediate Use Solidarity organisation, the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has expressed concern for jailed trade unionist,Esmail Abdi, whose health has deteriorated following a hunger strike he started on […]
CODIR says: We need to maximise our solidarity with the struggle of Iranian people for peace, and human and democratic rights! Iran’s recent Presidential election was a sham. This statement may seem odd, even disrespectful of the vote cast by […]
On Friday 12 May the Iranian regime released human rights campaigner and journalist, Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand from prison after more than ten years of captivity. In response to today’s release of Iranian Kurdish human rights defender and journalist Mohammad Sadiq […]
Following 31 days of hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison, Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi is in poor health, and requires immediate hospitalization. She has been unjustly imprisoned for her human rights activities since November 2016. On 8 April, […]
With presidential elections in Iran scheduled for 19th May the manoeuvring for position within the Iranian regime is well underway. Jane Green considers the implications for the ordinary working people in the Islamic Republic of the political chess being played […]
URGENT ACTION APRIL 20, 2017 Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi has been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison since 8 April. She is protesting the suspended prison sentences imposed on two of her sisters, Hanieh and Ensieh, for […]
A spokesperson for the Executive Council of CODIR summarizes the Council’s assessment of the forthcoming presidential election in Iran – that, as things stand, it offers no hope of democracy and serves only to confirm and strengthen the theocratic dictatorship’s stranglehold […]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 7 April 2017 Fears are growing for a jailed journalist and political activist whose health has deteriorated sharply after 30 days on hunger strike, said Amnesty International. Hengameh Shahidi, 41, who has a pre-existing heart […]
This weekend just gone – coinciding with the closing days of Norouz, the Iranian New Year festival – saw headline news that sent a shudder down the backs of those paying attention… the vicious, unprovoked attack on a seventeen-year-old Kurdish […]
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