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President Donald Trump speaks on Iran, at his Mar-a-Lago property this week
JEREMY CORBYN accused Boris Johnson of kowtowing to US President Donald Trump today over the assassination of an Iranian general to protect the prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal.
The Labour leader also accused the Prime Minister of “hiding behind” his Cabinet colleagues when he was absent from the Commons during the reading of a government statement on Iran.
Earlier in the day, Mr Johnson called a National Security Council meeting with senior government and military officials.
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
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
