Workers walk out at Iranian petrochemical plants, amid ongoing nationwide anti-government protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : These elements are hostile to and organically incapable of appealing to the Iranian working class, the only social force capable of sweeping away the overbearing clerical regime and defending and expanding democratic and social rights through a joint struggle with their class brothers and sisters throughout the Middle East for socialism.
52% : The 43-year history of the Islamic Republic has provided further vindication of Trotsky's insistence that in countries of belated capitalist development the fundamental democratic tasks -- including freedom from imperialist oppression, the separation of church and state, civil equality, and the radical restructuring of agrarian relations in favour of the rural masses -- can and will only be realized through the struggle for workers' power and socialism in opposition to all factions of the national bourgeoisie.
51% : The only way forward in the struggle for social and democratic rights in Iran is through the arming of the working class with the programme of permanent revolution, which demands the independent political mobilization of Iranian workers in struggle for the socialist transformation of society alongside their class brothers and sisters throughout the Middle East.
47% : Reports from Tehran indicated that many shops in the bazaar, traditionally a pillar of support for the bourgeois-clerical regime, remained closed in an act of civil disobedience.
47% : Washington and its European allies hope to exploit the increasing crisis of the Islamic Republic to deepen the longstanding cleavages within the ruling elite so as to "turn" Tehran -- i.e. break its increasingly close ties with China and Russia -- and ultimately reduce it to the status of neocolonial bondage that existed under the Shah.
46% : But Washington, seeking to arrest the accelerating decline in its world position, kept increasing its demands on Tehran.
45% : The protests over Amini's death began in Kurdish-dominated areas of western Iran, from which she hailed, before spreading to university campuses across Iran.
41% : Workers in the West must come to the defence of the Iranian working class, first and foremost by demanding the immediate lifting of all sanctions against Iran and the withdrawal of all US, Canadian and European military forces from the Middle East as part of a global, working-class mass movement against imperialist war.
40% : Beginning with the mass anti-government demonstrations that erupted in early 2018, Iran has witnessed widespread strikes and protests by workers and the rural poor against pervasive social inequality, poverty, the non-payment of wages, and environmental devastation.
40% : The desperate social conditions that the vast majority of the population confront are the product of the punishing and murderous economic sanctions the imperialist powers have imposed on Iran and the Khamenei regime's decades-long drive to eviscerate the social rights won by working people in the immediate aftermath of the 1979 revolution.
40% : Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi accused "foreign terror groups" based in northern Iraq, a reference to the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran and Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, which enjoys historic ties to the PKK of Abdullah Ocalan, of fomenting the "riots" with the aim of provoking Kurdish secession.
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36% : Amini was arrested September 13 during a trip to Tehran for allegedly wearing a hijab "improperly" and died three days later.
36% : At least five deaths were reported following protests in Tehran and in Kurdish cities Saturday, including a 14-year-old boy shot in the head.
33% :US imperialism and its European allies could well seize on Iran's strikes on the Kurdish parties in northern Iraq to intensify their military threats against Tehran.
32% : Underscoring the deep socio-economic and political crisis roiling Iran, the protests have continued for three-and-a-half weeks in the face of brutal state repression.
32% : The politicians and journalists in Washington, Berlin, Paris, and London never care to acknowledge that their governments bear a large portion of responsibility for the social and economic misery in Iran due to the devastating sanctions they have enforced.
31% : The sanctions have also compounded the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing Iran from accessing medications and vaccines as hundreds of thousands lost their lives to the virus.
15% : The Obama administration repeatedly threatened Iran with war, declaring "all options are on the table."

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