The region and the world stand today on the brink of an abyss and facing a real threat of a wide regional war, and perhaps an even wider war. NAVID SHOMALI, international secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran, explains the complexities of the situation

Following the release of a new film detailing Britain and the US's direction of the coup that removed Iran's first democratically elected leader and imposed a brutal monarchy on the country, NAVID SHOMALI of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran looks at the putsch's legacy