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AN Iranian Kurdish man who set himself on fire outside the United Nations refugee agency’s offices in Erbil last week died in the early hours of this morning.
Behzad Mahmoudi suffered 90 per cent burns after he self-immolated in protest at the treatment of Iranian Kurds living in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and the failure of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help him.
His action was filmed by journalists, who have been accused of encouraging it and criticised for failing to intervene to stop him.
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 Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI