From Guardian Online They came in the small hours, just as the dormitories were settling down for the night. Outside, Tehran was still in ferment, a city gripped by fury two days after a “stolen election”. Inside the dorms on Amirabad Street, students were trying to sleep, though nerves were jangling; just hours earlier several …
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Iran executes ‘Sunni Militants’
From the BBC Iran has executed 13 members of a Sunni rebel group blamed for a spate of attacks in the south-east of the country, Iran’s state news agency says. They were members of Jundallah (God’s Soldiers). The execution of the brother of their leader was postponed, the agency reported. Tehran blames the group for …
Sohrab Arabi: 19-year old Iranian Student Killed in Evin Prison
From Iranian.com We are shocked to hear that an Iranian student, Sohrab Arabi, has been killed in Evin prison. He is pictured here alongside his mother, who has been campaigning for his release.
More pictures from July 9/18 Tir
Iran: their solidarity and ours
Yassamine Mather examines a regime in crisis and looks to working class forces for a solution The continuation of demonstrations and protests against the Islamic republic of Iran, albeit on a smaller scale than two weeks ago, have fuelled further divisions at every level of the religious state: the Shia scholars of Ghom oppose the …
Videos of July 9 Demos
Videos of yesterday’s demonstrations on Youtube – in twelve parts: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDFfwKwBDu8&hl=en&fs=1]
Beyond Moussavi: The Movement of the Iranian Masses
An article by Hopi Steering Committee Member David Broder on the Commune website: While in the last two years there were strikes on the Tehran bus network and in isolated factories, as well as illegal student protests thousands strong, the post-election demonstrations were by far the greatest challenge to the authority of the Ayatollahs’ regime …
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Bita Samimizad Released!
Hopi activists have heard that Iranian student activist Bita Samimizad has been released – excellent news!
Audio File: Iran – a society in revolt
This was recorded at a meeting hosted by Hands Off the People of Iran in London on July 4. The speakers are John McDonnell MP and Yassamine Mather (chair, Hopi) Download here
Against imperialist war, against theocratic rule
Mike Macnair explains why it is now more urgent than ever to fight on two fronts (first published in the Weekly Worker- source) In last week’s issue James Turley charted the responses of the British left to the mass mobilisations in Iran against Ahmadinejad’s ‘re-election’ and to the repression unleashed by the regime. In the …
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