Iranian-German national and U.S. resident Jamshid Sharmahd attends his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, February 6, 2022
AN IRANIAN monarchist has been sentenced to death, authorities said on Tuesday.
Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German national and United States resident, is the leader of the armed wing of a group called Kingdom Assembly of Iran which advocates the restoration of the monarchy that was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Mr Sharmahd was accused of orchestrating a deadly bombing in 2008 of the Hosseini Seyed al-Shohada Mosque in Shiraz, in which 14 people were killed and more than 200 were wounded.
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