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A challenge to the future of theocracy in Iran
In protest against the corrupt ruling dictatorship, the left is rejecting the sham parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections taking place in Iran today. NAVID SHOMALI of the Tudeh Party of Iran explains why Iranian communists have called for a boycott of the poll
Campaigners from Woman, Life, Freedom, hold posters of women killed in Iran as they take part in a demonstration to mark International Women's Day in Whitehall, central London, 2023

THERE are reasons to believe that the polling stations in Iran will remain quiet today. Almost all independent, progressive, reform-minded forces in Iran — essentially those to the left of centre — have confirmed that they will refuse to participate in today’s parliamentary show. 

More than a year since the massive protests of women and youth against the killing of Mahsa Amini (a young Iranian woman, murdered in the headquarters of the “morality police”) shook Iran, people are set to take the world by surprise.  

International media agencies have dispatched their journalists to Tehran ahead of the anticipated showdown. 

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