Protesters gather outside the UN headquarters in Erbil, Iraq, on September 24, 2022, to protest the death of Masha Amini, who had fallen into a coma for three days after being detained by the morality police in Tehran, Iran
ANTI-GOVERNMENT demonstrations erupted in several locations across Iran on Saturday as the most sustained protests in years against the theocracy entered their fourth week. At least two people were killed.
Marchers chanted anti-government slogans and twirled headscarves, rejecting coercive religious dress codes. In some areas, merchants shuttered shops in response to a call by activists for a commercial strike, or to protect their wares from damage.
Hackers broke into the evening news on Iran’s state TV for 15 seconds later in the day, just as footage of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was being broadcast.
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
