Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
 
			AMID the ongoing outrage being perpetrated against the Palestinian people right before the very eyes of the world, which quite rightfully dominates headlines internationally, the theocratic dictatorship in Iran continues to lurch headlong from one major crisis into another.
Its governing doctrine of “political Islam” has utterly bankrupted and failed Iran and its people and continues to do so. The recent presidential “elections” charade underlines the reality that the current political and socioeconomic model is completely unreformable.
Over 40 years on from the Islamists’ hijacking and defeat of the Popular 1979 Revolution, which ousted the Shah’s monarchical dictatorship, the theocratic regime now presides over a situation of ruin for most ordinary Iranians.
 
               Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
 
               The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
 
               In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran
 
               
 
               

