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THE government’s motives in rebuilding ties with Iran were called into question yesterday, with leftwingers suggesting that the main goal was exploiting lucrative Iranian markets.
Speaking in Tehran a day after he reopened the British embassy following a four-year hiatus, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Britain must tread carefully in its newly thawed relationship with Iran, but that the two countries can work together to defeat Islamic State (Isis) and fight opium smuggling.
He said Iran was “too large a player” in the region to leave in isolation.
RAMZY BAROUD and ROMANA RUBEO analyse how the US has consistently negotiated in bad faith to secure the element of surprise in military attack
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The US’s bid for regime change in the Islamic Republic has become more urgent as it seeks to encircle and contain a resurgent China, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ