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A screenshot of anti-government protesters in Iran tearing down posters of the assassinated general Soleimani
PRESSURE continued to mount on Iran’s reactionary regime yesterday as thousands poured onto the streets demanding democratic elections and the resignation of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
The huge protests took place in major Iranian cities again yesterday after Iranian authorities made a stunning about-turn on Saturday, as they admitted to shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet on Wednesday.
Previous government statements claimed that the allegations were Western propaganda aimed at discrediting the Iranian government.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
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