LOS ANGELES — “Yesterday and last night Tehran launched 320 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel. Almost all of them were shot down,” said Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler to an April 14 meeting here. Sandler…
The barrage of 320 drones and missiles unleashed by Tehran April 13 is the first attack on Israel launched directly from Iranian soil. It is a deliberate and dangerous escalation of the reactionary Iranian regime’s decades of assaults on Israel…
The Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces, one of the key political groups in Iran’s parliament, admitted April 3 that Tehran played a “strategic role … in planning and executing” the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, giving the lie to…
The Iranian government claims that 41% of those eligible voted in the March 1 elections to the parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the body that picks the country’s “Supreme Leader.” But even that figure would be the lowest voter…
The streets were deserted as shopkeepers and working people held a one-day strike in over a dozen cities in the Kurdish region of Iran Jan. 30. They were protesting the execution of four Kurdish men the day before, accused by…
After nine days on strike in the city of Ahvaz in Khuzestan province, 3,000 workers at the National Steel Industry Group of Iran returned to work Dec. 31. Workers blocked entrances to the plant after the company suspended 21…
The reactionary bourgeois clerical regime in Tehran is driven to increase its regional power and influence by force of arms. Its leaders strive to extend beyond Iran’s borders the four-decade-long political counterrevolution that pushed back the workers, farmers, women and…
Opposition to Hamas is more widespread in Muslim countries than is presented in the liberal bourgeois press. While actions backing Hamas have been held in Egypt, Morocco and elsewhere, an explosion of protests against Israel in Arab countries hasn’t materialized.…
WASHINGTON — Over 75 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for a vigil Oct. 28 commemorating the death of Zhina Amini, the young Kurdish woman who died one year ago Sept. 16 after her arrest by the hated “morality police”…
Retirees and oil workers across Iran are continuing weekly protests to defend living standards while workers elsewhere are striking in the face of an annual inflation rate of 46%. At the same time, working people in Iran have largely boycotted…
