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Protest wave continues to engulf Iran
Simmering unrest in Iran has been spilling over into open street protests against the theocratic dictatorship as Western sanctions continue to bite and the economy tanks. JANE GREEN assesses how the struggle against the theocratic dictatorship in Iran is unfolding
TROUBLED NATION: Iran’s flag flying over its capital city Tehran
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VERY often, Iran makes international headlines vis a vis the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, the agreement reneged on by Donald Trump in 2018, a form of which US President Joe Biden is seeking to resurrect.
The situation facing ordinary workers inside the country rarely breaks into the headlines of the international media.
Yet the level of civil unrest and subsequent repression by the Islamic Republic is not only newsworthy for its international ramifications, should it force a change in the regime, but for the extent of resistance taking place under what is essentially a theocratic dictatorship, which brooks no opposition to its core beliefs.
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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
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran