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IRANIAN President Hasan Rouhani said on Thursday that those protesting against severe water shortages have a right to do so, in a message broadcast on state television on Thursday.
He said that this includes “the right to speak, express themselves, protest and even take to the streets within the framework of the regulations.”
Mr Rouhani was responding to a growing crisis which has seen demonstrations spread from the largely Arab Khuzestan province to a number of other areas.
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
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI