CODIR calls for a powerful campaign for the freedom of political prisoners in Iran!

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 […]

Trump says attack on Iran delayed at the request of Gulf states

19 May 2026 US President Donald Trump has said that he has decided to delay plans to resume attacks on Iran at the request of Gulf Arab states. He wrote on social media on Monday that he had taken the decision […]

US refusing to offer ‘tangible’ concessions following Iran’s peace proposals, according to Iranian media

18 May 2026 THE United States has refused to offer “tangible” concessions following Iran’s latest peace proposal, according to Iranian media reports on Sunday. Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that the US has put forward “maximalist” conditions in response to Tehran’s […]

Wartime Iran’s Political Transformation

ByHamidreza Ahmadi The US-Israeli war on Iran has strengthened the power of a section of Iran’s elite that earns money in dollars from the sale of oil and petrochemicals. This has unified the state and its elite around an anti-imperialist […]

Mass Layoffs in Iran: Wage Earners and Workers Under the Strain of War, Internet Disruption, and Industrial Stagnation!

While the Iranian economy had already been debilitated by the weight of sanctions, structural corruption, mismanagement, the collapse of the national currency, and the erosion of purchasing power prior to the conflict, the 40 days war started on 28th February, […]

 

CODIR calls for a powerful campaign for the freedom of political prisoners in Iran!

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 […]

Trump says attack on Iran delayed at the request of Gulf states

19 May 2026 US President Donald Trump has said that he has decided to delay plans to resume attacks on Iran at the request of Gulf Arab states. He wrote on social media on Monday that he had taken the decision […]

US refusing to offer ‘tangible’ concessions following Iran’s peace proposals, according to Iranian media

18 May 2026 THE United States has refused to offer “tangible” concessions following Iran’s latest peace proposal, according to Iranian media reports on Sunday. Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that the US has put forward “maximalist” conditions in response to Tehran’s […]

Wartime Iran’s Political Transformation

ByHamidreza Ahmadi The US-Israeli war on Iran has strengthened the power of a section of Iran’s elite that earns money in dollars from the sale of oil and petrochemicals. This has unified the state and its elite around an anti-imperialist […]

Mass Layoffs in Iran: Wage Earners and Workers Under the Strain of War, Internet Disruption, and Industrial Stagnation!

While the Iranian economy had already been debilitated by the weight of sanctions, structural corruption, mismanagement, the collapse of the national currency, and the erosion of purchasing power prior to the conflict, the 40 days war started on 28th February, […]

Ending Lebanon war key to peace, says Iran

Morning Star, 10 May 2026 IRAN says its response to the latest US peace proposals, sent to Pakistan today, focuses on “ending the war imposed by the US and zionist regime on all fronts, especially Lebanon.” The exact contents of the […]

Defending Iran against US and Israeli aggression will be a prolonged struggle

It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS THE entire peace movement opposed the US/Israeli war against Iran. Opposition went well beyond those normally opposing […]

US- Iran impasse threatens world peace

The shockwaves of US intervention in the Middle East can be felt in the West, but as Steve Bishop points out, the way ahead is still uncertain SELF-INTEREST can be a great motiva tor when it comes to the silent […]

How American imperialism is getting bogged down in the Iranian Quagmire

What was mapped out in Washington’s military planning rooms as a lightning campaign to force a swift regime change in Iran has degenerated into a deep quagmire for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. While the White House clings to the […]

War on Iran is War on Workers

By: Ruben Brett While attention has been focused on high-profile killings of state leaders and shocking massacres of civilians by US and Israeli bombing – including 175 primary schoolchildren in Minab on the first day of the unilateral war imposed […]