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
THE resignation of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif three weeks ago has once again highlighted the tensions within the ruling clergy in Iran.
Hard-line clerics have never been happy with President Hassan Rouhani or with Zarif as foreign minister, the latter having been the architect of the nuclear deal with the United States, China and the EU in 2015.
President Rouhani did not accept his tried and tested Foreign Minister’s resignation as he is well aware that the theocratic regime still needs to deploy the skills of Zarif in the difficult negotiations with the EU to secure sanctions relief.
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
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
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



