A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
‘The regime ruling Iran is not anti-imperialist’
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, international spokesperson for the Tudeh Party of Iran, explained to German newspaper Unsere Zeit the true nature of the Islamic Republic and the massive protests currently taking place inside it
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DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Unsere Zeit: In Iran, the protests quickly changed from being about the murder of Mahsa Amini to being about the general situation of women. Can you briefly describe what that situation is? What are the restrictions on women’s rights apart from the obvious dress code?
Mohammad Omidvar: To understand the root and cause of the current uprising against the reactionary regime in Iran, it is essential to note that over the past two years we have been witnessing ever-increasing social unrest and protests.
There have been a number of strikes across various industries, the most prominent being the long strike at the Haft-Tapeh sugarcane agro-industrial complex in Susheh, the strike at Hepco, the heavy equipment production company in Arak, thousands of contract workers in the oil and petrochemical industries, strikes and protests by teachers across almost all cities in Iran and protests by tens of thousands of pensioners.
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