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, by SEPEHR Houshang
70 years ago, in 1953, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its British counterpart, MI6, organised a coup d’état to oust Iran’s first and last democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq.
Details about the coup emerged after the CIA released a trove of documents (…)
, by FADAEE Simin
After seven decades of oppression, Iranians yearn for democracy and are willing to risk their lives to win it.
The 1953 coup d’etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year (…)
, by RAHNEMA Saeed
"Throughout the years, and particularly in the past two decades, the Islamic regime has faced consecutive movements and revolts by different sections of the population in reaction to a wide variety of socio-economic and cultural problems. The September 2022 death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa (…)
, by KIA Babak
The murder of Mahsa Jina Amini on 16 September by the “morals police“ for an ill-adjusted lock of hair triggered a vast popular movement of protest and rejection of the Islamic Republic.
This murder was the “last drop of blood” that broke the camel’s back. For nearly 60 days, women, young (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
In recent weeks the U.S. has sent the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers, a Patriot missile interceptor battery and more naval firepower into the Persian Gulf in an escalation of military threats against Iran. Earlier, the Trump administration designated the Islamic Revolutionary (…)
, by McQUADE Joseph
The US and Iran have a complicated relationship. At the moment, it is tense, divisive and delicate. Just over 60 years ago, things were not that different. In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) organised a coup to oust Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Muhammad Mossadegh. (…)
, by MALJOO Mohammad, RIVETTI Paola
Paola Rivetti – Following the July 2015 signature of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or “nuclear deal,” in Vienna and the progressive elimination of sanctions, huge changes in Iran’s economy are expected. It is anticipated that foreign direct investment will flow into the country (…)
, by AFARY Frieda
There is no doubt that there are divisions within the Iranian ruling class concerning economic and political approaches. There is no doubt that Iran’s capitalism is inefficient. There is no doubt that the IRGC acts like a Mafia band. However, currently, it seems that the IRGC, the (…)
, by ABRAHAMIAN Ervand, SADEGHI-BOROUJERDI Eskandar
In this interview Ervand Abrahamian, one of the preeminent Iranian historians of his generation, speaks to Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi about his fifty-year career and the ideas that have shaped both popular and scholarly understandings of the events, political organizations, and movements that (…)
, by BASTANI Aaron
The protests as they stand will not bring down President Rouhani, but if the poorest of the poor take to the streets then Iran itself could be in danger.
At the beginning of March a photo emerged of Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Quds Force (the extraterritorial element of Iran’s (…)
, by BAGHERI Behzad
This is the extended version of a talk presented by Behzad Bagheri, an Iranian socialist activist, in a meeting jointly organised by Socialist Alternative and Iran Solidarity-Melbourne in July 2013.
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Student movements have been at the forefront of the political (…)
, by ZAHEDI Arya
Arya Zahedi looks at the problems associated with anti-imperialist ideology during the Iranian revolution to cast light on struggles against the Islamic regime today.
The question of anti-imperialism has been much debated on the revolutionary left–particularly during most of the twentieth (…)
, by BAYAT Asef
The early 1990s saw a period of renewed urban popular uprisings in Iran, unprecedented since the 1979 revolution. From August 1991 to August 1994, six major upheavals took place in Tehran, Shiraz, Arak, Mashhad, Ghazvin and Tabriz, and there were frequent minor clashes in many other urban (…)
, by NIBKIN Saber
The following document was published by “Socializm va Enghelab” (Socialism and Revolution) in 1984. It was written in early 1983 by Saber Nikbin, then a member of the International Executive Committee of the USFI (United Secretariat of the Fourth International), as part of the pre-world congress (…)
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