A protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2022
MORE than 200 people have been killed during a fierce crackdown by Iranian authorities, as women in the country continue to protest and win support across the world.
Iranian security forces have mounted a huge clampdown on protests across the country, sparked by the death in September of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the so-called morality police for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women.
Widespread protests across Iran on Wednesday were marked by security forces’ use of guns and beatings.
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