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 […]
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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 […]
Yesterday, the Guardian Council announced the names of six men who have been approved to run in the upcoming presidential election. These candidates are: Masoud Pezeshkian from the sidelined faction, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who, along with Raisi, was a member of the 1988 death committee, Saeed Jalili, Alireza Zakani, Amirhossein Ghazizadeh, […]
The crimes of the Turkish government in areas under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces continue. On Friday, June 7, 2024, local authorities in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) announced that the Turkish Air Force once again attacked northern and eastern Syria with drones and artillery. Since October 2023, the Turkish […]