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
A DEGREE of tension between the elected President of Iran and the country’s Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been built into the system ever since the establishment of the Islamic Republic 40 years ago.
That tension has focused around the degree of emphasis in Iranian foreign policy upon engagement with the US and to a lesser extent the European Union.
The Western press have tended to simplify this tension as one between “conservative hardliners” and “reformists” within the Iranian political system, seeing hope in the presidencies of Khatami (1997-2005) and Rouhani (2013-2021), while despairing at the two terms of Ahmadinejad (2005-2013).
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
In part one of two articles, STEVE BISHOP exposes blatant lies of the warmongers who demand ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran using the excuse of nuclear weapons, when it is Israel that blatantly disregards international law



