IRANIAN human rights campaigners in Britain have called for the immediate and unconditional release of all trade unionists imprisoned by the Islamist regime this May Day.
Codir said today that scores of union and labour activists are languishing in Iranian prisons and face terrible situations.
They includes Iranian Teachers Trade Association (ITTA) general secretary Esmail Abdi, ITTA executive member Mohammad Habibi, pensioner and campaigner Esmail Geraami, journalist and labour activist Marzieh Amiri and labour activist Sepideh Gholian.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI



