In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran
The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session yesterday (22 June) to discuss US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites as Russia, China and Pakistan proposed the 15-member body adopt a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Middle […]
In part one of two articles, STEVE BISHOP exposes blatant lies of the warmongers who demand ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran using the excuse of nuclear weapons, when it is Israel that blatantly disregards international law
In Gaza the convicted Israeli war criminal, Netanyahu has tried to justify the Israeli state genocide against Palestinians with an erroneous claim that Israel is acting in “self-defence”. Now he is using the same lie to seek support for the […]
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
By e-mail: media@rouhani.ir infopack@irimlsa.ir iran@un.int Attn: Hassan Rouhani President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Office of the President Pasteur St. Tehran, IRAN CC: Mohammad Shariatmadari, Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri, Attorney General […]
The wave of protests which has gripped Iran since demonstrations engulfed 85 cities last January are showing no sign of letting up. The protests range from the low paid, underemployed and disenfranchised, through industrial workers in the steel and sugar […]
Iranian authorities must immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of members of the Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority being held without access to their families or lawyers, Amnesty International said following reports that some have been executed in secret. […]
Two leading trade union activists in Tehran have been received 5-year prison sentences for engaging in legitimate, legal and peaceful trade union activities. Ebrahim Madadi, deputy chairman of the Syndica-e Vahed (Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus […]
The Iranian authorities have waged a sweeping crackdown against the Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority, arresting hundreds of people in Khuzestan province, southern Iran, in recent weeks, said Amnesty International. The wave of detentions follows a deadly armed attack on a […]
The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Farhad Meysami, a human rights defender campaigning for women’s rights, who is being held in the medical clinic at Evin prison in Tehran against his will to pressure him into ending his […]
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has condemned in the strongest of terms a reported call by an Iranian court for the issuing of the death penalty against 17 activists involved in a widespread truckers’ strike. 12/10/2018 “The death penalty […]
Iran witnessed a nationwide strike by teachers on October 14-15. Iranian social media exploded with photos and videos of the teachers’ sit-ins at elementary and high schools across more than a dozen cities. Official Iranian media completely ignored the strike, however, while mainstream media abroad largely […]
Teachers are protesting what they say are their low wages. News reports and social-media posts suggest that dozens of teachers across Iran have reportedly refused to appear in classrooms. Instead, they appear to be staging sit-ins to protest low wages. […]
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, “North America’s strongest and most diverse labor union” with 1.4 million members in the US and Canada, supported Iran’s truckers in a letter to the Deputy Director of Iran’s interests in the US, Abolfazl Mehrabadi. The Letter, which was […]
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