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IRAN is operating a shoot-to-kill policy to crack down on protesters, a human rights organisation warned today.
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) has called on international organisations to put pressure on the Iranian regime to halt the violence against peaceful demonstrations.
Codir assistant general secretary Jamshid Ahmadi told that Star that observers and doctors in the country have witnessed protesters shot in the heads and upper torso with military-issued ammunition.
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
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
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI