Middle East
The tasks of the Iranian working class
By Peter Symonds, June 24, 2009
The various petty-bourgeois left tendencies in Europe and the United States have responded to the crisis in Iran by lining up behind their own governments in backing defeated presidential candidate Mo...
Document points to alleged military plot against Turkish government
By Sinan Ikinci, June 23, 2009
On June 12, the daily newspaper Taraf published a new document, which allegedly reveals fresh plans by the Turkish military to discredit and destabilize the ruling Islamist Justice and Development Par...
Iran: Protests wane as conflict within regime continues
By Bill Van Auken, June 23, 2009
Even as mass street demonstrations have dissipated in the face of police repression, Iran’s ruling political establishment remains internally divided.
For a socialist, not a “color” revolution in Iran
By Peter Symonds, June 22, 2009
The establishment of genuine democratic rights is impossible outside the fight for socialism against all factions of the ruling elite. Any attempt to sidestep the difficult task of constructing the ne...
Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for confrontation
By Peter Symonds, June 20, 2009
With an uncompromising speech at Friday’s prayers, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has set the stage for a potentially bloody confrontation with opposition leaders demanding a re-ru...
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
June 19, 2009
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
France offers the United Arab Emirates nuclear protection
By Peter Schwarz, June 19, 2009
In a region dominated by the US for the past 50 years and where America has conducted two major wars—in Iraq and Afghanistan—France is offering nuclear protection to a country without coordinating...
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...
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...
Israel: Netanyahu rejects compromise with Palestinians
By Jean Shaoul, June 16, 2009
Israel’s premier, Benyamin Netanyahu, has made clear that his government is not interested in reaching any agreement with the Palestinians.
