CHILD suicides are on the rise in Iran, the government conceded today after an 11-year-old student took his own life because he did not own a smartphone, preventing him from taking part in online classes.
Mohammad Moussavi was found dead in the kitchen at his home in Dayyer, south-west Iran, by his mother on her return from shopping last weekend.
Mohammad, and two other students who could not afford a smartphone, had reportedly been promised them by the school principal to enable them to take part in classes via an app connecting teachers and pupils.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
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 Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
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