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THE Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) demanded the release of arrested Iranian Teachers Association general secretary Ismail Abdi yesterday.
Mr Abdi was detained on June 21 as he attempted to travel to neighbouring Armenia en route to an the annual Education International trade union conference in Canada.
Border guards prevented him from crossing and confiscated his passport, then told him to report to Evin prison, whose political prisoners’ wing is known as Evin University for the number of intellectuals who have been incarcerated there.
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
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