The antics of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed and detested Shah of Iran, are remindful of the poem "The Man Who Wasn't There" by the American Hugh Mearns.
A coalition of exiled opposition Iranian groups and figures formed as protests challenged the authorities has collapsed, leaving diaspora representatives grasping for new ways to find long-sought unity.Always outside the coalition was the most organised of Iranian exiled opposition groups, the People's Mujahedin (MEK) which is implacably opposed to Pahlavi but is regarded with disdain by many in the diaspora for siding with Baghdad in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
“The workers very carefully considered how best to advance their struggle in the face of the restrictions imposed on them both by the present regime and by the right-wing opposition. The mass uprising has provided fertile ground for them to voice demands linked to their daily existence and lived experience. ”
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