On Sunday, July 7, 2024, retirees from various sectors including Social Security, government, steel, and telecommunications gathered in cities and provinces such as Tehran, Kermanshah, Ahvaz, Shush, Mazandaran, and Khuzestan to hold protest rallies. Some of the common slogans in these gatherings were against the economic conditions of the retirees, […]
Daily note
The recent two rounds of presidential electoral shows are noteworthy from several perspectives. The decisive boycott of this charade by the people, who ignored the deceptive presence of government reformists, was undoubtedly a victory. Even votes cast in favor of the government reformist candidate, despite being tainted by harmful naivety, […]
Saeed Jalili, the candidate from the “Absolute Reactionary Front,” and Massoud Pezeshkian, the candidate from the “Relative Reactionary Front,” have expressed their views on women’s issues in the presidential race. It is clear that both are wary of losing the limited number of voters they might have, thus speaking ambiguously […]
The staged presidential election of the Islamic Republic took place on Friday, June 28th. Although the results have not yet been announced at the time of this report, evidence suggests that the vote count has been manipulated to ensure the election moves to a second round, where the desired candidate […]
Thirty-seventh years ago, on the afternoon of June 28th, 1987, a number of Iraqi Ba’athist aircrafts appeared over the skies of Sardasht and surrounding villages. In a criminal act, they dropped their chemical bombs on the innocent and defenseless people, created a great catastrophe, leaving the heart and emotions of […]
On Saturday, June 22, 2024, Toomaj Salehi’s lawyers, Mostafa Nili and Amir Raisiyan, announced that the Supreme Court had overturned the baseless death sentence of their client. Amir Raisiyan wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the Supreme Court not only overturned the death sentence but also mentioned that “even the […]
June 15th is marked as the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day by the United Nations. In the capitalist world where workers burn out early, the population is aging according to the bourgeois definition of age. If the current trends continue, by 2050, the number of elderly in the developed capitalist […]
On Saturday, June 15, 2024, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (of the right-wing Moderate Party) announced in a statement the release of Hamid Nouri, an assistant prosecutor and deputy prosecutor at Gohardasht Prison, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Sweden. In his statement, Kristersson also announced that Johan […]
As the early presidential election show approaches, threats, summonses, and arrests of ordinary citizens and social activists, as well as pressure on political prisoners, have significantly increased. To create an atmosphere of fear and terror, a number of convicts from ordinary courts are being executed daily. Amnesty International, in its […]
June 12, corresponding to June 22 in the Iranian calendar, is World Day Against Child Labor. This day was introduced in 2002 by the International Labour Organization. There has never been an exact count of child laborers worldwide, as most governments, particularly in backward capitalist countries, are unwilling to provide […]