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IRAN’S communist Tudeh Party has dismissed any possibility of progressive change coming out of yesterday’s parliamentary elections.
More than 6,000 candidates contested the 290 parliamentary seats as part of several slates or as independents.
But Tudeh Party international secretary Navid Shomali warned that the apparent pluralism was illusory, as a similar number of reformist candidates had already been purged from the election by the powerful Guardian Council of theologians and jurists.
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
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