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Iranian demonstrators set fire to French flags during their gathering to protest against the publication of offensive caricatures of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023
IRANIAN protesters burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran on Sunday to protest against cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampooned Iran’s supreme leader.
Hundreds of protesters, including students from seminary schools, shouted “death to France” and accused French President Emmanuel Macron of insulting Iran while urging Paris to stop “animosity” towards Tehran.
Iranian state television said that similar protests had been held in the shrine city of Qom.
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
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
