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, by SULEHRIA Farooq
There was a crucial meeting in Geneva in May 2001 between U.S. State Department, Iranian, German, and Italian officials, where the main topic was a strategy to topple the Taliban.
Extremely repressive at home, the Iranian regime has presented itself as the champions of Muslim cause that (…)
, by EBADI Shirin
The protest movement is now a year old – but the feminists at its helm can look back on decades of courageous activism.
This weekend one year will have gone by since the Iranian people took to the streets in droves to protest at the fraudulent elections that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to (…)
, by ABRAMS Joseph
NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”
Just (…)
, by Fourth International
Motion adopted by the Sixteenth World Congress of the Fourth International.
In the context of an American imperialist offensive, of UN economic sanctions and a flood of bellicose declarations against Iran relayed in the Middle East by Israel, the Fourth International declares that the (…)
, by EHSANI Kaveh, SUSTAR Lee
More than six months after claiming victory in a fraud-riddled vote, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is systematically cracking down on supporters of the “green movement” led by his main electoral rival, former prime minister Mir Hussein Mousavi.
Arrests, torture and murder, however, (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Over a month ago a group of Iranian women’s activists called for all defenders of women’s rights, women’s organizations and networks to take action in support of the women’s and civil rights movements in Iran, and to prepare measures of support and protest under the banner of “freedom and gender (…)
, by NILU
Network of Iranian Labor Unions (NILU)
Iran Labor Report — There is a fiction going about in some progressive circles around the world according to which Ahmadinejad is a great nationalist crusader, that he is a champion of the poor and that he is a man of the people. This is certainly (…)
, by BALDERSTON Bill, POORZAD Homayoun
Homayoun Poorzad interviewed by Bill Balderston.
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January 19, 2010 — Labor Notes — Iran has seen incredible tumult in the last few months, with massive street protests challenging the government, even as the US and allied nations continue to (…)
, by IRANI Sholeh
’Ashura’, mourning days for Shia Muslims, has deep historical roots in Iranian history. One mourns by holding processions, passion-plays, and other such ceremonies from pre-Islamic Iran. According to Shia historians, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein (same forename as opposition leader (…)
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to release a group of women who were beaten and arrested during a peaceful vigil in Tehran at the weekend.
The 33 women, members of a group known as the ’Mourning Mothers’, were seized during their weekly meeting in Laleh Park, Tehran on (…)
, by IRELAND Doug
Ten young Iranian men, including eight teenagers, are currently awaiting execution for sodomy, and two more are being re-tried on the same capital charge. And, in an exclusive interview with Gay City News, an Iranian student gay rights activist confirmed for the first time the existence of queer (…)
, par Homosexual Students at Iran’s Universities
Translator’s note : The formation of the new organization, “Homosexual Students at Iran’s Universities” is a courageous act. Below are large excerpts from a statement which this organization issued on the occasion of Students’ Day. For more information about queer organizing in Iran, please see (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
A 27-year-old left-wing Kurdish activist, Ehsan Fatahiyan, was executed in Iran on Novemebr 11.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of activists in many countries desperately campaigned to save his life. But in vain.
Initially arrested for being Mohareb (enemy of Allah), eighteen months ago, (…)
, by MOLAVI Shourideh
On October 27, the Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) held a conference titled “Democracy in Action: The Protests in Iran” [[http://www.cicweb.ca/events/CrisisIran] in Ottawa. The purpose, according to the CIC website, was to “mobilize political action against the human rights abuses of the Iranian (…)
, by VAKIL Sanam
The headline news of Iran continues to be dominated by hard, often menacing political news - from Tehran’s nuclear programme and the international tensions it raises, to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon and the acclamation the president received as he denounced Israel from just across the (…)
, by KIA Mehdi
It is now three months since the coup in Iran, thinly disguised as the presidential election. Even though the victors of the coup appear to have succeeded in consolidating themselves and the opposition forces have apparently been pushed back into defensive positions the massive anti-government (…)
, by JAVAHERI Jelveh
Iran’s One Million Signatures Campaign Member Jelveh Javaheri Receives Six Month Sentence as Protections for Prisoners’ Rights Continue to Deteriorate.
One Million Signatures campaign activist Jelveh Javaheri has been issued a six month prison sentence by Iran’s Revolutionary Courts for her (…)
, by Khiyaban
Iranian revolutionary movement: a closer look
Introduction
This volume contains a collection of articles published in “khiaban”, an underground publication, launched at the beginning of the mass protests against dictatorship in Iran in June this year.
We have so far published 49 issues of (…)
, par ESSF
« Echo d’Iran » is an information bulletin on the labor movement in Iran, in defense of workers’ rights and democratic rights.
It is published in French by Solidarité avec les Travailleurs en Iran [Solidarity with Workers in Iran] or STI :
S.T.I 266, Ave Daumesnil, 75012, Paris E-mail : (…)
, by SAMEH Catherine
BEFORE THE JUNE elections and the protests that ensued, 2009 was hailed as a milestone in Iran for another reason: it marked the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
The revolution and recent protests shared the mass participation of women, as most media accurately reported. But the (…)
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