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Iran – danger of outside intervention escalates
The developing situation in Iran and the international response to it underlines the danger of widespread war in the Middle East as the struggle for political control in the region unfolds. STEVE BISHOP reports
(L to R) Mir-Hossein Mousavi in 2009, protests at Tehran's Hafez Street, January 2020
[(L to R) Salar Nayerhoda/CC Mohsen Abolghasem/MojNews]
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
WESTERN-BACKED regimes in the Middle East — namely Israel and Saudi Arabia — have long viewed the Islamic Republic of Iran as an existential threat.
This is based on the support of the Iranian regime for the Hezbollah and Hamas factions in Lebanon and Gaza, both of which are regarded as a threat by Israel.
The Islamic Republic also repudiates the particular brand of Sunni Islam perpetrated by Saudi Arabia, favouring a militant interpretation of Shia Islam which it seeks to roll out across the region.
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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
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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