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Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of Basij paramilitary force in Tehran, Iran, on November 26, 2022
FORMER Iranian prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi called at the weekend for a referendum on a new constitution, saying the powers currently vested in the position of supreme leader must go.
The ex-leader published a call on the Kaleme website saying the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that swept the country following the police killing of Mahsa Amini last September had revealed “major truths” about the anti-democratic nature of the Islamic Republic.
He demanded a constitutional assembly be formed to write a new constitution.
KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
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