Iran
Letters on the elections in Iran
June 19, 2009
A selection or recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site on the aftermath of the elections in Iran
The New York Times and Iran: Journalism as state provocation
By Bill Van Auken, June 19, 2009
In its editorials and biased news coverage on Iran, the New York Times has functioned as an instrument of US foreign policy, seeking to manipulate public opinion in support of an imperialist destabili...
Factional struggle deepens within Iranian ruling elite
By Peter Symonds, June 19, 2009
A tense factional struggle within Iran’s clerical regime continued as tens of thousands of supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi took to the streets of Tehran for a sixth...
Obama: US “meddling” in Iran should not be seen
By Bill Van Auken, June 18, 2009
Because of its long history of intervention in Iran, Washington has shrunk from giving public support to the political factions backing Mousavi, but behind the scenes, the US is exploiting the electio...
For workers’ power and a socialist Iran
By Peter Symonds, June 17, 2009
The political crisis unfolding in Iran raises fundamental issues for the working class. While there are tactical differences between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi, both are tested defenders of the existing ...
Iran: Election clashes mount as West escalates pressure
By Bill Van Auken, June 16, 2009
Over 100,000 people demonstrated Monday in the streets of Tehran against the results of last week’s presidential election as the Islamic regime’s top clerical leader ordered an investigation of op...
The New York Times and the Iranian election
By Barry Grey, June 15, 2009
The response of the US media to the Iranian election says more about the state of democracy and the so-called “free press” in America than it does about the state of democratic rights in Iran.
Protests erupt after Iranian election
By Peter Symonds, June 15, 2009
Clashes between police and supporters of defeated candidate Mousavi erupted over the weekend after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in last Friday’s presidential election.
Iranians voting in presidential poll
By Peter Symonds, June 12, 2009
Iranian voters go to the polls today in the first round of the presidential election after a boisterous campaign that has involved hundreds of thousands in rallies and street demonstrations for and ag...
Iranian presidential election: candidates debate strategic shift
By Sahand Avedis and Alex Lantier, June 4, 2009
The campaign for Iran’s June 12 presidential elections has been dominated by debate over national strategy between the four candidates allowed by the clerical Guardian Council to run.
Ahmadinejad speech provokes walkout at UN anti-racism conference
By Richard Phillips, April 23, 2009
Hysterical denunciations by the US, Israel and the European powers of the Iranian president’s speech to the UN’s anti-racism review conference were entirely predictable and part of a highly-orches...
Obama’s “carrot and stick” approach to Iran
By Peter Symonds, March 25, 2009
The US administration made a much publicised gesture toward Iran last Friday with the release of a video by President Obama to mark Nowruz, the Persian New Year. While the tone was conciliatory, the e...
