US-Iran deal must centre human rights and region must see real and sustainable end to hostilities
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
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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
By Ziba Akhavan, CODIR_e-Newsletter, February 6, 2026 Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a tireless champion for human rights, has launched a hunger strike from her place of detention in Mashhad, Iran. The strike, which began on […]
Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations (CCITTA) Wednesday, February 4, 2026 A child is not a criminal, and a prison is no place for a child. A child’s place is at home, in school, and among family and friends. […]
In this week’s newsletter: witness accounts reveal how violence escalated in Iran; and how millions of deepfake nudes have been shared on Telegram On Thursday 8 January, after weeks of swelling protests, Iran went dark. Almost everything went offline: internet, messaging, social […]
ByFreddy Brewster As Donald Trump threatens a military attack on Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections and roll back abortion rights have also been pouring millions into influential think tanks advocating for regime change in the country. […]
29th January 2026 Press release – For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has today issued a call to the trade union and peace movement in Britain to back the international outcry against the […]
The oppressed people of our country are once again mourning their children. This time, the killing of protesters opposing the Islamic Republic’s economic and social policies is even more widespread and horrific than the street massacres of the 1980s, as […]
The National Education Union (NEU) strongly condemns the brutal repression of peaceful protestors in Iran by the country’s security forces with thousands killed and hundreds arrested. The Iranian regime has intensified its crackdown on human rights and on trade union activists. We stand in solidarity with all human rights defenders, with Iranian trade unionists, and with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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