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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (centre) is surrounded by a group of lawmakers after the conclusion of his speech on his budget bill at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, January 11, 2023
IRAN has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to 74 lashes and a lengthy prison term after convicting him of spying in a closed-door trial, state media reported on Tuesday.
The website of Iran’s judiciary said a revolutionary court sentenced Olivier Vandecasteele to prison for spying, collaboration with hostile governments and money laundering — each conviction carrying a 12-and-a-half-year sentence.
Mr Vandecasteele was also fined $1 million (£825,000) and sentenced to two and a half years for currency smuggling.
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
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
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