Trump’s reckless drone assassination has actually strengthened the reactionary theocratic regime in Tehran, states Hands Off the People of Iran Hands Off the People of Iran unequivocally condemns the United States assassination on January 3 of the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani - the culmination of the latest bout of sabre-rattling between the two countries. It is not enough, ...
A godsend for the regime
Yassamine Mather assesses the situation in the Middle East following the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Iran’s missile revenge gesture
This week has been a godsend for leaders of the Islamic Republic. First, the drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander in chief of the Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Then Donald Trump’s ...
Interview on the Iran crisis
HOPI chair Yassamine Mather has been interviewed by Counterpunch Radio in the US, on the international crisis sparked by president Trump's assassination of Qassam Soleimani and the effects within Iran. | Listen to the interview here Yassamine is also quoted in this news story, written before Iran's admission that a Ukrainian jet was brought down by ...
Nice British bobby
Yassamine Mather compares Radio Farda’s reporting of Iran with its touching depiction of Britain. Recent protests against the withdrawal of state subsidies for fuel have seen 200, maybe 300, people killed - mostly, as far as I can tell, by the security forces. This human slaughter by the Islamic Republic regime should be strongly condemned. Moreover, ...
Threat of war is real
With Iran partially withdrawing from the nuclear deal and the US imposing yet more sanctions, tensions are rising fast. This is an edited version of an opening given by Yassamine Mather on the political situation in the Middle East A common question journalists ask these days - if they are not asking about Brexit - is ...
Raking in fortunes
It is workers who have been hit the most, writes Yassamine Mather, while those close to the regime have benefited enormously Mehdi Khalaji: doing very nicely, thank you very much We all remember Hillary Clinton’s promise of “targeted sanctions” against Iran’s Islamic republic. They were deployed to ‘moderate’ the Shia government’s regional policies, as well ...
Forty years of inequality
The US administration preferred Islamists to leftists, says Yassamine Mather The masses drove out the shah then found themselves subject to a cruel theocracy Commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the February 1979 uprising in Iran has been marked by dozens of scholarly seminars in Europe, numerous documentaries produced by the Persian-language media, as well the ...
Israel and Saudi Arabia in cahoots
Saudi plans for regional domination are not meeting with much success, writes Yassamine Mather
More than six weeks after the death of Jamal Khashoggi we know a lot more about his tragic plight after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. However, it is still unclear who ordered his execution, what will be done about it, ...
The Iranian opposition: fishing in muddy waters
Repression and exile have clouded the view of Iranian anti-government forces, writes Mohamad Moein in Tehran
Throughout history governments have faced opposition to their rule and the current period is no exception. These days in Iran , the opponents of the Islamic Republic are known as the opposition. In English speaking countries, the term opposition was ...
HOPI STATEMENT: MAY DAY IN IRAN SUPPORT WORKERS’ STRUGGLES!
Hands Off the People of Iran has consistently identified the workers of Iran as the solid anti-imperialist force in that country, a force that has shown resilience in opoposition to the religious state . This is the section of Iranian society that the anti-war movement in the west must be a partisan of and ally ...