Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of imprisoned British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and their seven year old daughter Gabriella pose for the media in Parliament Square, London in September 2021
BRITISH-IRANIAN charity worker and journalist Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due back in Britain after the government settled an outstanding £400 million debt owed to the regime in Tehran.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who had been detained in Iran since 2016, and fellow dual-national detainee Anoosheh Ashoori boarded a plane to London at Tehran airport, Labour MP Tulip Siddiq wrote on Twitter.
“I came into politics to make a difference and right now I’m feeling like I have,” she wrote.
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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