International Socialists

The mobilisation of more than one million people on the streets of Tehran, alongside open splits in the ruling “islamist-capitalist” class, marks a revolutionary crisis in Iran. The people are losing their fear. The enormous hatred of today's political system and the economic hardship of ordinary people is boiling over. Iran is in the grip of a popular rebellion, the like of which has not been seen since the 1979 revolution. The protests that began opposing alleged vote rigging in the recent national elections has now become a movement that lays bare the deep contradictions inside Iranian society.