Kurdish women hold portraits of Iranian Mahsa Amini, during a protest condemning her death in Iran, in the city of Qamishli, northern Syria, Monday, September 26, 2022
THE government must ensure that Britain remains a safe place for Iranians and others fleeing torture and prosecution, human rights campaigners have urged after the Islamic Republic launched attacks on Kurds.
An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeted the base of the opposition group Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan in northern Iraq as well as homes, offices and other buildings on Wednesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 32 others.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said the attacks “impacted the Iranian refugee settlements” in Koya, and that refugees and other civilians were among the casualties.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
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