Friday 09 December 2011

Iranian imprisonment labour activist Reza Shahabi on 14th day of hunger strike

Incarcerated labor activist Reza Shahabi has been on hunger strike for over 2 weeks with no information about his condition .

Friday 09 December 2011

Iranian labour activist Ebrahim Madadi Re-Arrested by iran`s regime

The ITUC was dismayed and incensed to hear today that Ebrahim Madadi, a courageous trade unionist and Comrade from Vahed Syndicate in Tehran, was re-arrested today after being freed only last Thursday. A move welcomed by the international trade union movement

Only one solution to Iran: Regime change

By Adm. James A. Lyons

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s deplorable performance before the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 22 was not unexpected. His declaration that Iran would never recognize Israel’s right to exist - even if statehood were granted to the Palestinian people - should put to rest the common liberal thesis that if only the Israeli-Palestinian problem were resolved, peace and stability would reign in the Middle East. Nonsense.

Sunday 04 December 2011

Has the War with Iran`s islamic regime Already Begun ?

NationalJournal.com
Two incidents that occurred on Sunday—Iran’s claim of a shoot-down of a U.S. drone, and an explosion outside the British embassy in Bahrain—may have been unrelated. But they appear to add to growing evidence that an escalating covert war by the West is under way against Iran, and that Tehran is retaliating with greater intensity than ever .

Saturday 26 November 2011

Iranian Labor Activist on Hunger Strike

HRANA News Agency – On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Reza Shahabi began his hunger strike to protest against 18 months of imprisonment and legal state of limbo.

Iranian Labors Protest on the New Draft Proposals

Monday 21 November 2011

Iranian Labors Protest on the New Draft Proposals
On November 20, 3000 workers staged a sit-in by the gates of the Iranian parliament to protest the proposed new changes to the labor law. The demonstration called by the “Labor House” was used by a large number of labor protesters to show their discontent with the proposed changes to the law set to be finalized on November 21 between the “management and labor representatives”.

Monday 21 November 2011

Iranian Labors Protest on the New Draft Proposals

On November 20, 3000 workers staged a sit-in by the gates of the Iranian parliament to protest the proposed new changes to the labor law. The demonstration called by the “Labor House” was used by a large number of labor protesters to show their discontent with the proposed changes to the law set to be finalized on November 21 between the “management and labor representatives”.

Monday 12 December 2011

Report: Seven workers killed in explosion at Iran steel factory

An explosion at a steel production complex in central Iran killed seven workers including foreigners, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a senior local official in Yazd province as saying on Monday .

Monday 12 December 2011

Ahmadinejad targeted by shoe thrower

A 45-year-old textile worker who has been out of work for a year threw his shoes Monday at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to protest not having received unemployment benefits, an Iranian website reported .

Iran's Cities a Sea of Poverty under sharia and capitalism rule

by HOMYLAFAYETTE
04 Mar 2011 00:

26CommentsHalf Iranian urban population under poverty line says report
(dispatch) Between 44.5 and 55 percent of Iran's urban population lives under the poverty line, according to a new report titled "Measurement and Economic Analysis of Urban Poverty" .

31 Women Drivers Forced out of United Bus Company by iran`s islamic regime

HRANA News Agency – Farahnaz Shiri together with 30 other women bus drivers have been forced out of the United Bus Company of Tehran (UBCT) while none of them knows the reason for the mandatory buyback of their employment service.

Iranian Workers of Flarc Company on Strike for Unpaid Wages

Friday 30 September 2011

HRANA News Agency – One hundred workers of Flarc Company in Kamyaran County have gone on strike to demand their unpaid wages for the last five months. Flarc Company is a contractor working on a project to build an irrigation system utilizing rain for farmlands .

Never forget! Never forgive! The massacres of 1988

Posted on August 5, 2010

In the first of a series of articles for Hands Off the People of Iran Aida Foruzan looks at the mass murder carried out by the theocratic regime in the summer of 1988.

Iran: Violent Attacks and Judicial Farce Herald New Wave of Anti-union Repression

Brussels, 18 April 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has issued a strong condemnation of the Iranian authorities for their intensified attacks on independent trade unions in the country, with the arrests of hundreds of leaders and members of teachers’ organisations and further persecution of bakery workers’ leader Mahmoud Salehi from the city of Saqez in Iran Kurdistan.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Six Bahá'í leaders arrested in Iran

Six Bahá'í leaders in Iran were arrested and taken to the notorious Evin prison yesterday in a sweep that is ominously similar to episodes in the 1980s when scores of Iranian Bahá'í leaders were summarily rounded up and killed. It seems the six are held in the notorious Evin 209 section and are undergoing interrogations.

Protecting Rights of Gay Citizens in Iran

by RASHEED ABOU-ALSAMH in Brasília

10Dec 2011 15:28 CommentsIn land where homosexuality can yield death sentence, little hope that regime will heed a recent U.N. appeal It has always been hard to be gay in the Middle East, even more so in Iran, where a hardline regime, with ultimate power in the hands of the clergy, has been in power since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons in Iran were given the tiniest glimmer of hope in November when the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, released its latest recommendations on how the Iranian government can improve the human rights of its citizens, including for the first time GLBTs .

IMF Betrays West With Mullahs' Malarky

by Ilan Berman
Washington Times
August 29, 2011

With soaring inflation, chronic unemployment and rampant poverty, Iran is nobody's picture of economic health. So when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its latest working paper on Iran last month, the rosy assessment contained therein raised more than a few eyebrows .

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Iranian imprisonment labour activist Reza Shahabi on 14th day of hunger strike

Incarcerated labor activist Reza Shahabi has been on hunger strike for over 2 weeks with no information about his condition .

Iranian labour activist Ebrahim Madadi Re-Arrested by iran`s regime

The ITUC was dismayed and incensed to hear today that Ebrahim Madadi, a courageous trade unionist and Comrade from Vahed Syndicate in Tehran, was re-arrested today after being freed only last Thursday. A move welcomed by the international trade union movement

Only one solution to Iran: Regime change

Has the War with Iran`s islamic regime Already Begun ?

Iranian Labor Activist on Hunger Strike

HRANA News Agency – On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Reza Shahabi began his hunger strike to protest against 18 months of imprisonment and legal state of limbo.

Iranian Labors Protest on the New Draft Proposals

Iranian Labors Protest on the New Draft Proposals

Report: Seven workers killed in explosion at Iran steel factory

An explosion at a steel production complex in central Iran killed seven workers including foreigners, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a senior local official in Yazd province as saying on Monday .

Ahmadinejad targeted by shoe thrower

A 45-year-old textile worker who has been out of work for a year threw his shoes Monday at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to protest not having received unemployment benefits, an Iranian website reported .

Iran's Cities a Sea of Poverty under sharia and capitalism rule

26CommentsHalf Iranian urban population under poverty line says report (dispatch) Between 44.5 and 55 percent of Iran's urban population lives under the poverty line, according to a new report titled "Measurement and Economic Analysis of Urban Poverty" .

31 Women Drivers Forced out of United Bus Company by iran`s islamic regime

HRANA News Agency – Farahnaz Shiri together with 30 other women bus drivers have been forced out of the United Bus Company of Tehran (UBCT) while none of them knows the reason for the mandatory buyback of their employment service.

Iranian Workers of Flarc Company on Strike for Unpaid Wages

HRANA News Agency – One hundred workers of Flarc Company in Kamyaran County have gone on strike to demand their unpaid wages for the last five months. Flarc Company is a contractor working on a project to build an irrigation system utilizing rain for farmlands .

Never forget! Never forgive! The massacres of 1988

In the first of a series of articles for Hands Off the People of Iran Aida Foruzan looks at the mass murder carried out by the theocratic regime in the summer of 1988.

Iran: Violent Attacks and Judicial Farce Herald New Wave of Anti-union Repression

Six Bahá'í leaders arrested in Iran

Protecting Rights of Gay Citizens in Iran

IMF Betrays West With Mullahs' Malarky

With soaring inflation, chronic unemployment and rampant poverty, Iran is nobody's picture of economic health. So when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its latest working paper on Iran last month, the rosy assessment contained therein raised more than a few eyebrows .

26CommentsHalf Iranian urban population under poverty line says report
(dispatch) Between 44.5 and 55 percent of Iran's urban population lives under the poverty line, according to a new report titled "Measurement and Economic Analysis of Urban Poverty" .