A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Targeted for the ‘crime’ of going to school
Hundreds of schoolgirls have been targeted in poison gas attacks in Iran. We need to sound the alarm and be calling for justice as loudly as possilble, says PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
Iranian school students protest with a sign reading ‘Woman, life, freedom’
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
Years of austerity and political failure have left classrooms overcrowded and staff overstretched – now educators are organising across roles to demand change, says ED HARLOW
While US restrictions tighten economic and social pressures on Cuba, international allies and grassroots campaigns are stepping in to support the island’s resilience, writes BERNARD REGAN, secretary of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN
THERE is growing public concern and widespread anger in Iran following reports that hundreds of schoolgirls have been poisoned in a series of mysterious gas attacks on schools across the country, raising fears that militant religious groups have begun waging a new violent campaign against the education of women and girls there.
This spate of reported attacks first came to attention back in November, amid the nationwide popular protests under the banner of “Woman, Life, Freedom,” in the holy city of Qom — the centre for Iran’s clerical establishment and base for its senior leaders — but was kept from the public on the insistence of the authorities, according to Iranian news media.
However, the news has been catapulted into the headlines over this past week following the poisoning of scores of schoolgirls in attacks that appear to have spread to other Iranian cities, including the capital Tehran.
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