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AN IRANIAN activist has gone missing after criticising a proposed Bill to implement highly restrictive internet policies, his family said on Saturday.
Hossein Ronaghi, a blogger and free-speech campaigner, disappeared on Wednesday after he criticised a parliamentary Bill to limit internet access known as the users’ protection Bill. The proposal has been criticised by many Iranians on social media.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, compained in March last year that social media in Iran is “unbridled” and that it should not be “surrendered to the enemy.”
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
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
