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29 February 2012
Iran: Tensions with the US and its allies are ratcheted-up
Workers and poor must rely on their own strength to resist: War clouds are gathering, once again, over the Middle East. Heightening tensions over the last months between the US and its allies and Iran have seen covert assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists,...
Iran revolution 2009
23 June 2009
Where now for the Iranian revolution?
THIRTY YEARS after the 1979 revolution, Iran has again erupted in revolutionary convulsions. Millions have taken to the streets to protest against the undoubted rigging of the presidential election, in...
One million protest in Iran
17 June 2009
Mass demonstrations have erupted in Iran in protest at the apparent rigging of the presidential elections by the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime.
According to reports over one million people have demonstrated in the capital Tehran and over a dozen have been killed in clashes with the police and hated Basij militia. writes Tony Saunois, CWI.
Mass demonstration in Tehran
24 February 2009
Iran 1979: A revolution that was taken from the working class
IRANIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, recently addressed thousands of supporters at Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Monument, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution - a revolution carried out by the working class that toppled a brutal western puppet, the Shah...
22 October 2008
Persepolis, directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Film review: Based on a graphic novel memoir written by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is a treat. An animated film, it is unlike anything I've ever seen before, mainly, but not entirely, in black and white and very...
22 July 2008
Say no to military attack on Iran
GORDON BROWN'S recent bellicose, anti-Iran speech in the Israeli Knesset is part of a ratcheting up of pressure which could lead to the nightmare scenario of an attack on Iran, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
16 July 2008
Military threat to Iran stepped up
SPECULATION IS once again rife on whether Israel or the US will launch air strikes on Iran. The Middle East could be on the brink of horrifying events in the next period triggered by such action, writes Judy Beishon.
6 December 2007
A declassified US intelligence report says Iran halted a programme to build nuclear weapons in 2003....
5 July 2007
Iran: Riots over petrol rationing
ON 26 June, the Iranian regime implemented its secret plan of rationing petrol and increasing the price...
4 April 2007
Iran - Sailors fall victim to imperialist policies
Editorial: CLAIM AND counter-claim from the Iranian and British governments has followed the Iranian government's capture and release of fifteen British marines and sailors, allegedly for trespassing into Iranian waters...
26 March 2007
Iran: Alarm bells have been ringing, left and right. John Pilger, the radical journalist, wrote an article, Iran: The War Begins (New Statesman, 3 February),...
15 February 2007
Bush threatens Iran over Iraq insurgency
GEORGE BUSH'S administration has stepped up its threats against Iran, accusing the Islamic regime of supplying sophisticated roadside bombs to Shia groups in Iraq which have killed US soldiers....
22 October 2006
A NUMBER of foreign ministers recently met in London to argue about Iran's nuclear enrichment programme... By Judy Beishon
21 September 2006
Growing tensions between the US and Iran are making many people around the world fearful of a US military strike against the Middle East country.
13 April 2006
Bush eying regime change in Iran
ACCORDING TO US journalist Seymour Hersh the Pentagon is accelerating military plans to attack Iranian nuclear facilities with 'bunker-busting' bombs, including the use of 'tactical nuclear weapons'...
16 March 2006
DEMONSTRATIONS AROUND the world on 18 March will be demanding that imperialist forces get out of Iraq. But opposition to any US attack on Iran will be an urgent theme in this year's third-anniversary protests. LYNN WALSH looks...
19 January 2006
Iran: Nuclear row raises fears internationally
THE WESTERN governments' hue and cry over Iran's decision to restart nuclear research has produced mixed responses around the world. Amongst the millions who oppose, and have campaigned against, nuclear weapons there is growing...
12 January 2006
Solidarity with Tehran bus workers
FOURTEEN LEADERS of Tehran's transport workers' union were arrested on 22 December, after staging a 'no-ticket' action against Sherkate Vahed, a state owned bus company in Iran, to demand higher wages...
7 July 2005
Iranian hardliner's victory stuns Western leaders
Iranian elections: MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, an Islamic conservative and former revolutionary guard, has been elected president of Iran...
11 October 2003
Iran 1988: A bloody chapter in the workers' movement remembered
THE HISTORICAL development of capitalism - a system of exploitation for profit - has been accompanied with blood and slaughter, writes By Eleanor, an Iranian exile.
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