This International Women's Day carried a somber air, marked by echoes of raids, shattered schools, and fallen walls that silenced more than 160 young voices at Minab Elementary School. March 8, is the International Women's Day and it felt definitely different this year for Iranian women. For many Iranian women activists in the diaspora, it did not arrive with purple banners or the familiar rhythm of events, speeches, Interview and solidarity messages about gender equality as before. (…)

Chez certain·es en Iran, le sentiment passe de l'espoir d'être secouru·es à la consternation face à la destruction des infrastructures, de la culture et des vies humaines Après des années d'arrestations, de disparitions et de massacres de manifestant·es, la haine que nourrissaient certains milieux en Iran à l'égard du régime au pouvoir, intransigeant et oppressif, avait atteint un tel paroxysme qu'un grand nombre de personnes avaient cru à la promesse de Donald Trump selon laquelle les (…)

What we are seeing today in part of the current Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan is no longer just a tactical slip or simply a sign that they cannot understand the real balance of forces. Organizations such as PJAK, PAK, and Khabat had been waiting for foreign intervention and for a chance to play on the borderlines for years. The others are no better, and these parties follow the right-wing and far-right horizon in Kurdistan and welcome war conditions. What we are (…)