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Reza Pahlavi speaks of a “revolution”, but what kind?

Houshang Sepehr — 2026-04-15T20:38:18Z

In Iran, the streets, morgues and cemeteries are now littered with corpses. Predictably, the Islamic Republic is carrying out summary executions of protesters with extreme brutality. It was a deliberate massacre aimed not only at stifling mobilizations, but also at deterring any dissent.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Iran

Trump's barbarous war on Iran, part of a long history of war crimes

Dan La Botz — 2026-04-07T05:22:33Z

President Donald Trump's war on Iran is barbarous, cruel, vicious, undertaken and carried out without a bit of concern for the millions of human beings it is affecting in Iran, in the region, and throughout the world. The nature of the war was revealed on the first day, 28 February , when the United States hit a school in Minab and killed an estimated 175 people, 100 of them children. Attacks on civilians are a war crime, all too common a war crime in all modern wars. Now Trump is threatening an even greater war crime.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), Iraq, Vietnam, Iran

A Revolutionary Feminist Position on Iran: Vs. Authoritarianism, Vs. Imperialism, Vs. Zionism, and NO TO WAR!

Anonymous — 2026-03-31T18:43:36Z

A REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST position on Iran must refuse the false and damaging binary that demands choosing between defending the Islamic Republic and endorsing US-imperialist and Zionist intervention. This is a constructed choice designed to collapse political judgment into campism. It converts solidarity into a competition of moral allegiances and leaves ordinary people, workers, women, youth, and minorities to a reality shaped simultaneously by internal repression as well as external militarized destruction.

- Feminism / Women, Iran, Far Right, Anti-imperialism

The Iranian nuclear bomb: a devastating boomerang

Houshang Sepehr — 2026-03-17T17:32:39Z

In the aftermath of January 2026's crackdown, voices within and close to the Islamic Republic renewed calls for Iran to complete a nuclear deterrent, claiming the bomb would have prevented the current existential crisis. Houshang Sepehr, exiled Iranian Marxist and editor of Solidarité Socialiste avec les Travailleurs en Iran, challenges this on structural grounds. Drawing on the cases of India, Pakistan, and North Korea, he argues that nuclear deterrence only functions within security architectures backed by a great power patron --- a guarantee Iran never had. Neither Russia nor China was willing to absorb the risks of a nuclearised Islamic Republic contesting US hegemony. The bomb, he concludes, would have deepened Iran's isolation rather than protecting it.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Iran, Nuclear power

US Antiwar Movement Grows Slowly Amid Political Confusion

Dan La Botz — 2026-03-09T07:25:09Z

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have conducted a tremendously powerful air war against Iran which, as Iran responded and Israel also made war on Lebanon, quickly became a regional war bringing death and destruction to many Middle Eastern nations, killing thousands. Trump is now demanding Iran's “unconditional surrender” and the right to a role in choosing the country's future leaders. Elected as a candidate who opposed foreign wars and regime change, Trump has repeatedly betrayed his promises.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA), Iran

Nooshi – do you dare to do as Spain's Social Democrats have done?

Alex Fuentes — 2026-03-07T16:54:57Z

“What kind of leader is Nooshi, who does not dare to take a ‘clear and unambiguous' stance like the Spanish Social Democrats, whom she herself often praises?.”

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Spanish state, Sweden, Iran

Trump Launches War on Iran: Will Americans Support It?

Dan La Botz — 2026-03-02T10:51:57Z

President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America's “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Trump has launched just such a war on Iran and the question is: Will his base and the American people support or even tolerate it?

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA), Iran

The Massacre of Protesters Will Not Block the Path to Freedom

Iranian Writers' Association — 2026-01-28T13:52:45Z

In less than two weeks, the Islamic Republic repeated—on a vast and horrifying scale—all the crimes it has committed over forty-seven years of bloody rule. As many had feared, “the government filled the prisons and cemeteries with protesters.”
By cutting off all means of communication—from the internet to text messages and phone lines—the authorities carried out a massacre in total silence. They labeled the victims “rioters” and “enemies” and opened the way for the continuation of an (…)

- News from around the world / Iran, Protest movements

Beyond the Headlines: Why Iran's Protest Wave Can't Be Reduced to One Name

Siyavash Shahabi — 2026-01-26T17:08:49Z

“the street is the product of a decade of accumulated pressure, repression, and scattered bottom-up organizing. Famous figures arrive late. The real danger is that, instead of strengthening the movement's diversity and real field experience, projects emerge whose goal is not to open a road to freedom—but to manage and control a movement that has already broken out of control.”

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Iran, Protest movements

A new popular uprising in Iran

Sarah Selami — 2026-01-12T08:18:00Z

“Faced with these mobilizations, the authorities have responded with repression, mass arrests and violence. However, the experience of the movements of 2017, 2019 and 2022 shows that this strategy has never made it possible to impose submission in the long term. The current protests are thus part of a continuity of recurrent protests. ”

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Iran