Middle East 4 ChangeStruggles in Iran – Another response
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
We published a letter we received from comrades Iman Ganji and Jose Rosales on the current strikes in Iran. We asked them how these strikes related to the…
Petrochemical workers in Iran strike over pay and conditions
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Jean Shaoul Petrochemical workers across Iran have been waging strikes since June 19 to demand higher pay, the payment of back wages, the elimination of intermediary contractors and…
Iran Clears Way for Hard-line Judiciary Chief to Become President
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Farnaz Fassihi Candidates in Iran’s presidential elections have always been strictly vetted, and those deemed insufficiently loyal to the Islamic Revolution were disqualified. Within those limits, contenders held…
Iran’s Presidential Election: Electioneering without candidates
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Yassamine Mather Iran’s presidential elections will be held on June 18 and so far it is not clear who will be the candidates proposed by the many Islamic…
Poems by Mohammad Mokhtari
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Iranian writer, poet and left-wing activist, he was an active member of the Iranian Writers Association. He was murdered during the chain of extrajudicial murders of progressive intellectuals…
Three Poem by Mehrdad Fallah
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Mehrdad Fallah comes from Northern Iran. He was born in 1960 in Fashoo Poshteh – “a small village . . . five fingers away from the Caspian”, as…
The limits of guerillaism: interview with Mohammad Reza Shalguni
Monday, February 8, 2021
Mohamad Reza Shalgouni was a founder-member of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). He spoke to Yassamine Mather about his strategic reassessment as a prisoner…
Spiralling poverty in Iran adds to pressure on regime
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Najmeh Bozorgmehr This time last year, Mohammad could still just about afford fruit and chicken for his three children. But as US sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic have…
Iran: Three waves of urban protest, 1992-2019
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Since the beginning of the 1990s, Iranian society has witnessed successive waves of protest movements. One could argue that it has been in a perpetual state…
Iran: Three waves of urban protest (Farsi)
Friday, January 1, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad ME4Change summary of the article: The author analyses the three large waves of urban protests in Iran over the last three decades. The three waves differ…
Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Patrick Cockburn I was in Israel on 4 November 1995 when a student named Yigal Amir assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace…
Death of courageous journalist of Middle East, Robert Fisk
Friday, November 13, 2020
Robert Fisk, a veteran Middle East correspondent for The Independent and the most celebrated journalist of his era, has died after an illness. He was 74. Fisk was…
Iranian writers Association and PEN protest at imprisonment of writers and repression in Iran.
Friday, November 6, 2020
The protest by the Iranian Writers Association in Exile and Iranian PEN Association in Exile against the arrest and long prison sentence by the Islamic Republic on three…
How filmmaker Khosrow Sinai uncovered the hidden history of Polish refugees in Iran
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Aga Sablinska Iranian filmmaker Khosrow Sinai passed away in August from COVID-19, leaving behind an important and eye-opening document of Polish exodus during the Second World War. His…
Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
Monday, September 14, 2020
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Ammar Maleki, Tilburg Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s…
Will October Surprise Be Trump-Provoked War With Iran?
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Bob Dreyfuss Was Donald Trump’s January 3rd drone assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani the first step in turning the simmering Cold War between the United States and…
‘Music is our only weapon’: Middle Eastern artists fight oppression with new ‘peace album’
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Bell Trew One of the songs was recorded during an air strike, parts of another by a fleeing refugee aboard a boat. The man behind the album is…
China Signs Series Of Deals To Develop Supergiant Oilfield In Iran
Monday, August 3, 2020
Simon Watkins Two key questions logically arise from last week’s announcement from Iran’s Petroleum Ministry that it has awarded a US$1.3 billion development deal to more than double…
Remembring Houshang Pezeshgnia, Iranian artist
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Houshang Pezeshgnia, Iranian artist (1917-1972) was one of the first modernist painters in the country. He attended the College of art in Istanbul studying under professor Leopold Louis….
Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, the U.S. War Machine Presses On
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Jeff Mackler That Russia paid the Taliban financial bounties to kill 18 U.S. and “coalition” soldiers in Afghanistan is in dispute to say the least. Both Democrats and…
Iran jolts India to activate US sanctions loophole
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Kaveh Afrasiabi Earlier this month, authorities in New Delhi were rattled by reports from Iran that India had been expelled from a key investment project in favor of…
Trump Authorized CIA To Wage Cyberwar On Iran And Others
Monday, July 20, 2020
Moon of Alabama Recently there have been a number of incidents in Iran where unexplained fires or explosion have destroyed some infrastructure: Since June, fires or explosions have…
Defying U.S., China and Iran Near Trade and Military Partnership
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Farnaz Fassihi and Steven Lee Myers Iran and China have quietly drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership that would clear the way for billions of dollars of…
Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Iran is one of the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). What effects will the realization of the BRI have on the geo economical and…
The Way To The Orchard: Poem by Sohrab Sepehri
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Keep calling me! Sweet is your voice. It is the green Growing beyond the companionship of sorrow. In the scopes of this silent era I am lonelier than…
خطر تشکل های سازش طبقاتی (کورپورات) در ایران
Sunday, June 7, 2020
هدایت سلطان زاده یاد داشتی کوتاه در این زمینه این نوشته حدود سی سال قبل در « راه کارگر تئوریک » شماره ۳ منتشر شده است و بنابراین…
US imperialism, Zionist and the danger of war
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Mike Macnair, Moshé Machover, Yassamine Mather Crisis and need for conflict Mike Macnair What we are seeing today is a situation where the United States is lashing out…
Iranian feminist political prisoner’s open letter defends Kurdish women political prisoners
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee Golrokh Iraee’s letter from inside the Varamin-Qarchak prison; the pressures on #Zeynab Jalalian continue. Zeinab Jalalian is one of the longest serving political prisoner in…
Iran Quietly Lowers the Temperature With U.S.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Alissa J. Rubin and Farnaz Fassihi After years of increasing tensions that nearly led to war, Iran has moderated its approach to the West, shifting from a policy…
Poem by Ziba Karbassi منظومه ی ویرانی
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
آن سوتر جوانی با چهره استخوانی و ته ريش با پيرهنی جر خورده بر سه پايه ای كنار حوض شكسته سِنج ميزند سَنج دمای پريده از شيشه لب…