Iran’s monarchist opposition’s support for “liberation” by invasion proved to be a nightmare for ordinary people, says Iranian American socialist feminist Frieda Afary in an interview with Alternative Viewpoint’s Farooq Sulehria.
Frieda Afary
It took the popular uprisings in Iraq and Lebanon, following the earlier uprisings in Sudan and Algeria this year, for the Iranian masses, especially unemployed and student youth, to gain the courage to go out into the streets in large numbers again. For the first time since the December 2017–January 2018 uprising, they are mobilising to call for an end to the Islamic Republic.