Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
STEVE BISHOP looks at what has triggered the mass protests in Iran
THE threat of further attacks upon Iran, following the bombings by Israel and the United States in June 2025, looms large in the thinking of the Iranian people. The leadership of the Islamic Republic is however corrupt, divided and in danger of paving the way for foreign intervention. Codir’s executive member Steve Bishop reports
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran