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ranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022.
PROTESTS continued to rage in the streets of Iran on Thursday even as the nation’s authorities renewed threats against dissent.
The protests in Iran, sparked by the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini after her detention by the country’s morality police, have seen at least 328 people killed and 14,825 injured, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that’s been monitoring the protests over their 54 days.
Online videos emerging from Iran appeared to show demonstrations in the capital Tehran, as well as other cities in the country.
KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
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
