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IRAN today executed a bank guard who was convicted of fatally shooting a senior cleric in April following months of unrest, state media reported.
Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, was the most senior member of the clergy who was killed after protests and a bloody security crackdown on demonstrators.
The protesters were enraged by the death in September of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the country's morality police. The protests gradually died down in the early months of the year.
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
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
