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In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, October 1, 2023
ACTIVISTS are calling for a UN investigation into an alleged attack by Iran’s morality police on a teenage girl, leaving her in a coma.
Foreign-based rights campaigns like Norway’s Hengaw Organisation say witnesses reported Armita Geravand being beaten for not wearing a headscarf.
IranWire says she is currently in hospital with head trauma.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
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
