Khadijeh Karimi, deputy of the vice president for women and family affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, speaks during a special Human Rights Council session at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, November 24, 2022
WESTERN diplomats and the UN human rights chief appealed today to Iran’s government to halt its bloody crackdown against protesters.
The call came during a special human rights council session to discuss a bid for greater scrutiny of the country’s “deteriorating” rights situation.
But Iran’s envoy blasted the initiative as “politically motivated.”
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