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
HUMAN rights abuses in Iran continue to be an issue for young people, women, trade unionists, ethnic and religious minorities, and the political opposition.
The regime does not see the judiciary as being independent from the ruling theocracy in the country.
The Islamic Republic’s judicial system criminalises dissent and even imprisons lawyers for doing their job.
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
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



