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The struggle for change in Iran has reached the point of no return, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
OUTPOURING: Demonstrators march towards Piccadilly Circus in London earlier this year, to protest following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian state forces

AFTER five months of unceasing protest and activism by tens of thousands of young women and men in Iran, demanding that their fundamental human and democratic rights be respected, the political landscape in the country is beginning to shift dramatically.  

Mir Hossein Mousavi, who was prevented from taking office having won the 2009 presidential elections following a hugely popular campaign, has published his manifesto for the rescuing of Iran and a political transition away from the decades-old dictatorship.

Mousavi has been kept under house arrest at his closed-off residence in Tehran for 13 years now, along with his wife Zahra Rahnavard — herself a prominent and well-respected activist. 

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