Details of Iran’s proposals at the much heralded negotiations with the P5+1 powers that took place last weekend in Geneva were supposed to be secret. However, rumours about what has or has not been agreed have filled the Iranian and international press. The destiny of 75 million Iranians, if not the entire population of the …
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Iran executions: Brutal signal to opponents
Iran’s Islamic government might be taking a more ‘moderate’ approach regarding nuclear negotiations, but as far as internal repression is concerned its stance is as bad as ever before – as bad as the worst periods of the rule of the last president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the last week of October alone, Iran’s judicial system …
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Solidarity with the Iranian working class
The political landscape of the Middle East is an increasingly complicated place. In this video, Yassamine Mather of Hands Off the People of Iran looks at the conflicting interests that have driven the United States and Iranian governments to seek some form of modus vivendi with each other and the implications this may have both …
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Iran: Step up solidarity
After weeks of speculation about Iran-US relations and the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, Iran’s foreign minister and his deputy finally made their initial proposals clear on October 15-16 in closed talks with the ‘P5+1’ countries in Geneva. Those proposals will come in stages, coinciding with a gradual reduction of western sanctions. Despite Iran’s denials it …
Telephone diplomacy riles Israeli hawks and Iranian conservatives
Last week’s phone conversation between the presidents of the United States and Iran, the first direct talks between the two heads of state in more than 30 years, has been the cause of major controversy amongst conservatives both in the US and the Islamic Republic. Although both countries have declared a willingness to work together …
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Edging towards a settlement: US sanctions appear to have produced results for imperialism
As Iranian president Hassan Rowhani addressed the UN general assembly on September 25, there seemed to be no end to the charm offensive unleashed by the new government in Tehran. Following a number of conciliatory articles in US papers1 and a TV interview during which he emphasised Iran’s commitment to “peaceful nuclear development”, the Iranian …
Rowhani’s visit to US
The events we are now witnessing in the Middle East, the “United States’ accidental diplomacy” regarding Syria1 and renewed talk of the resolution of Iran’s nuclear programme were unexpected a few weeks ago. Having declared that the use of chemical weapons was the “red line” the Syrian leadership should not cross, the US has now …
Vazir Fathi ( Rahyaab)
A Brief Personal History and poem Translated from Farsi by: Ali Atash. ***** Vazir Fathi ( Rahyaab) was born in April 1963. He was a political prisoner during “the Decade of Sixties”- 1980’s- and is a survivor of the massacre of “sixty seven”. He was arrested in February of 1983 and was formally released in …
Rowhani and Sanctions
How long after the inauguration of the new president before disillusionment sets in? Yassamine Mather discusses the limitations of Hassan Rowhani Iran’s new president, Hassan Rowhani, will take office on August 3. He faces major internal as well as international problems. It will be interesting to see how a man who describes himself as a …
‘Iran and the Middle East’
Hands Off the People of Iran fringe meeting at Marxism 2013 ‘Iran and the Middle East’ Speakers: Moshe Machover & Yassamine Mather Location: University of London Union, Bloomsbury Suite Starts: 17:15, Sunday 14 July 2013 Ends: 19:30, Sunday 14 July 2013 Contact Email: office@hopoi.info Phone : 075904416922