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 […]
4 February 2021 – Human Rights United Nations independent human rights experts on Thursday, condemned the hanging of a prisoner from the Baloch minority in Iran, voicing fear that a “disturbing” recent increase in executions of community members “will continue”. The […]
FEBRUARY 3, 2021 BY BEHROOZ GHAMARI TABRIZI There is an expression in Persian that says when an idiot throws a stone into a well, hundreds of wise people can’t recover it. Now this is the story of Donald Trump’s idiotic decision in May […]
31st January 2021 The major foreign policy challenge facing new US President, Joe Biden, is that of the relationship of the United States to the Islamic Republic of Iran and how this will impact upon the wider geo-political balance of […]
Amnesty International Public Statement 20 January 2021 On the third anniversary of the nationwide protests of December 2017 and January 2018, Amnesty International renews its calls for justice for the dozens of protesters, including children, who were killed by Iran’s […]
The #MeToo movement has hit a nerve among Iran’s women. Now accusations against a politically connected celebrity artist are testing the movement in a sexually conservative society dominated by men. By Farnaz Fassihi Oct. 22, 2020 Three years into the global […]
Iran’s decision to hang media activist Ruhollah Zam on Saturday was an appalling violation of human rights that followed a deeply flawed trial process, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement on Monday. “I am appalled at the execution […]
The United States flew strategic bombers over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, December 30, for the third time since the second half of November. According to Haaretz, senior officers in the Israel military have met in recent days with their counterparts at […]
Last Friday, November 20, Channel 13 reported that Israel and the US were planning to increase pressure on Iran with “covert operations” and economic sanctions during Trump’s final weeks in office. The next day, the United States rapidly deployed several heavy bombers […]
“Lame duck” US President Donald Trump’s legal challenges to the validity of the November presidential election have chalked up more than fifty defeats in the courts in the past weeks, the most recent one (“the big one,” in Trump’s own […]
The execution of an Iranian man for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old has been condemned by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) and raised concerns over violations of his right to a fair trial. In […]
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