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Today: August 20, 2026
August 20, 2026
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An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’

On one side, you face the domination of the Islamic Republic; on the other, the imperialist forces that Republic claims to stand against

August marks the anniversary of the 1988 mass executions in Iran, a horror that echoes in the country’s current surge in death sentences. It also marks the 19 August anniversary of the UK- and US-orchestrated coup against the prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. Amid the current, indiscriminate waves of US-Israeli military assaults against Iran, this letter of solidarity denounces the repression of the Iranian people and their political prisoners by forces both at home and abroad.

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