Taraneh Alidoosti poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Leila's Brothers' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 26, 2022.
AN IRANIAN actress known for her work in an Oscar-winning film was arrested on Saturday for her support of the nationwide women-led protests.
Taraneh Alidoosti, who starred in 2016’s The Salesman, was detained after she made a post on Instagram expressing solidarity with the first man recently executed for taking part in the protests against the government, a strict theocracy that polices female behaviour, which have been going on for three months.
She has been accused of spreading false information.
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 Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI