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PAYAM SOLHTALAB
People cross a street in downtown Tehran, Iran, August 28, 2025
Features / 30 August 2025
30 August 2025

Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran

Destroyed military vehicles in Khartorum, April 2023
Features / 11 July 2023
11 July 2023
With nearly 700,000 having fled the fighting to nearby countries, the conflict between two sides of the armed forces risks sparking violence across the whole volatile region, warns PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Iranian Teachers Trade Association spokesperson Mohammad Hab
Features / 7 April 2023
7 April 2023
PAYAM SOLHTALAB, of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights, issues a call for support following the arrest of a leading teaching trade unionist by the Islamic Republic regime
Iranian school students protest with a sign reading ‘Woman
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023 / 6 March 2023
6 March 2023
Hundreds of schoolgirls have been targeted in poison gas attacks in Iran. We need to sound the alarm and be calling for justice as loudly as possilble, says PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
OUTPOURING: Demonstrators march towards Piccadilly Circus in
Features / 16 February 2023
16 February 2023
The struggle for change in Iran has reached the point of no return, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
An Iranian holds up the name of the young woman who died at
Features / 27 November 2022
27 November 2022
The regime has already resorted to brutal, deadly violence to suppress protests, and is now indicating it will go even further – international solidarity is vital, writes PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Campaigners from Amnesty International carrying a batch of f
Features / 25 March 2022
25 March 2022
Seven years ago Saudi Arabia began a brutal onslaught that has been widely described as causing the world’s worst humanitarian disaster – a crime not possible without at least £6.5 billion of British weapons, explains PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Protesters march with a banner reading ‘Without water, wit
Features / 24 July 2021
24 July 2021
PAYAM SOLHTALAB writes on the ever-deepening water crisis in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province and reveals its root
Features / 16 May 2021
16 May 2021
PAYAM SOLHTALAB of civil rights advocacy group Liberation calls for an immediate ceasefire and respect for international law in the besieged Gaza Strip