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The struggle for change in Iran has reached the point of no return, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
OUTPOURING: Demonstrators march towards Piccadilly Circus in London earlier this year, to protest following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian state forces
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AFTER five months of unceasing protest and activism by tens of thousands of young women and men in Iran, demanding that their fundamental human and democratic rights be respected, the political landscape in the country is beginning to shift dramatically.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, who was prevented from taking office having won the 2009 presidential elections following a hugely popular campaign, has published his manifesto for the rescuing of Iran and a political transition away from the decades-old dictatorship.
Mousavi has been kept under house arrest at his closed-off residence in Tehran for 13 years now, along with his wife Zahra Rahnavard — herself a prominent and well-respected activist.
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The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
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