Iran's state-run agency says a pair of gunmen opened machinegun fire in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan, killing the brother of the owner of a tower that collapsed there earlier this year
Iran's state-run agency says a pair of gunmen opened machinegun fire in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan, killing the brother of the owner of a tower that collapsed there earlier this year
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The Iranian regime continues to experience political earthquakes and it is failing to address the underlying issues. Political upheavals are like dam failures. To the casual observer, they appear to happen in an instant. But in actuality, what causes dams and political systems to break is years of unaddressed small leaks that create mounting pressure until one final drop
There are growing mass protests, but very little, if anything, in the way of conscious organisation. Under these contradictory circumstances the left must avoid the temptation of giving up on basic anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist principles, insists Yassamine Mather