Iran
Deadly quake hits Iran
16 April 2013The strongest earthquake in 50 years struck south east Iran as Socialist Worker went to press.
Argo channels US terror at revolt in the Middle East
27 November 2012It must have taken a lot of searching to find an episode of Iran’s 1979 revolution where the US state could come off as the good guy.
Iranian protesters are caught between a rock and a hard place
09 October 2012A few thousand people clashed with riot police on Wednesday of last week as they chanted anti-government slogans around the traditional bazaar of Tehran.
Iran: West's cold war raises threat of Iran attack to boiling point
21 February 2012Tory foreign secretary William Hague said that Iran’s nuclear program could lead to a Middle East "cold war" last week. He later warned that an Israeli assault on Iran would not be "a wise thing".
Hague’s radioactive hypocrisy over Iran’s nuclear programme
21 February 2012Tory foreign minister William Hague says the world faces "the most serious round of nuclear proliferation since nuclear weapons were invented".
New threats to Iranian people
07 February 2012The US and the European powers have introduced sanctions against Iran—dropping any pretence that they are not targeting ordinary Iranians.
Anti-war protest against Western intervention in Iran and Syria
28 January 2012Some 400 people rallied outside the US embassy in London today, Saturday, against any attack and sanctions on Iran and Syria.
No to West’s threats to Iran
24 January 2012The European Union (EU) implemented a ban on all new oil contacts with Iran this week, and ruled that any existing ones will be terminated in July.
US ratchets up its threats against Iran
17 January 2012Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was assassinated on the streets of the capital Tehran last week.
Iran: Sanctions will hurt masses
10 January 2012Western governments are once again beating the drums of war and launching an economic assault on Iran by imposing crippling sanctions.
Captured US drone exposes covert operations
13 December 2011Iranian forces claim they can reverse-engineer a US drone they captured earlier this month—and use it for their own purposes.
Regime change in Iran must be left to the Iranian people
06 December 2011Western powers, fresh from their intervention in Libya, are keen to assert themselves elsewhere.
West beats the drums for war
08 November 2011The rulers of the US, Britain, France and Israel last week teamed up to step up their rhetoric over a military assault on Iran.
Hunger strikers win review
17 May 2011The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has agreed to review the case of three Kurdish Iranian asylum seekers who mounted a 37‑day hunger strike outside its headquarters in Croydon.
Will the Home Office let six refugees die?
03 May 2011Six Kurdish Iranian refugees are on hunger strike in London in protest against British government plans to deport them to Iran.
Crackdown in Iran could spark a new movement
01 March 2011The revolutions in the Middle East have not only revealed the hypocrisy of Western governments—they have also demonstrated the double standards of Iran’s conservative leaders.
Revolution: an idea whose time has come
22 February 2011The great storm of revolt that began in a small town in Tunisia now sweeps from Morroco across thousands of miles of North Africa and the Middle East through to Iran, as this map shows.
Iran's revolution
22 February 2011The US is reeling after revolution threw out one of its major allies, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. For the American ruling class, the revolt invokes terrible memories of Iran in 1979—where a revolution brought down Iran’s ruler, the Shah.
Iran’s protests show up the hypocrisy of the West
15 February 2011Protests for change have erupted in Iran—and are facing government repression.
Free Iranian trade unionist Reza Shahabi now
13 December 2010Trade unions across the world, including the TUC, are calling for solidarity with Iranian trade union leader Reza Shahabi, who has been on hunger strike since 4 December in protest at his continuing imprisonment.
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