Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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‘My wife, my sons and my daughter all drowned. They left because life here is so bad with no electricity, no jobs and no salary’
The family of Rizgar Hussein attempt at the perilous crossing from France to Britain last month ended in tragedy. STEVE SWEENEY, who had met them, looks at the political background that leads tens of thousands to escape poverty and oppression
LEFT TO DROWN: Rizgar Hussein’s wife Khazal and children, daughter Hadia and son Mubin; location screen grabs
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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
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“THEY were trying to escape from them,” Mohammad says as the Kurdistan Regional Government announced that the bodies of 16 people who drowned in the channel in November were being returned home.
“Now it is the Barzanis that are bringing them back. Even in death they cannot get away from them,” he tells me, his voice tinged with sadness.
His best friend is one of the thousands who have fled Iraqi Kurdistan in recent months, desperate to escape a brutally oppressive regime and deepening poverty that has blighted the region.
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