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A group of Iranian lawmakers gather in protest over a water crisis in their constituencies as President Hassan Rouhani submits next year's budget bill, in an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, on December 25 2018
IRANIAN security forces fired tear gas at a peaceful protest in Isfahan yesterday with at least 50 teachers believed to have been detained as anti-government protests continue.
They attacked the gathering which took place outside the city’s Education Department as teachers demanded an increase in wages and the release of their colleagues who were jailed after taking strike action earlier this year.
The demonstration was part of growing unrest across the country with anger over the regime’s handling of an economic crisis and acute water shortages.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
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 Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI