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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
IRAN’S communist Tudeh Party has dismissed any possibility of progressive change coming out of yesterday’s parliamentary elections.
More than 6,000 candidates contested the 290 parliamentary seats as part of several slates or as independents.
But Tudeh Party international secretary Navid Shomali warned that the apparent pluralism was illusory, as a similar number of reformist candidates had already been purged from the election by the powerful Guardian Council of theologians and jurists.
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
The war crimes of US imperialism in its third military aggression against Iran and the necessity of confronting the devastating policy of ‘War, war until victory’!
