Strikes paralyze France and UK

TEHRAN- As NATO members – France and Britain - spend fortunes on the Ukraine war, workers at home bear the brunt and this has triggered mass protests and strikes.

Met Police: uniformed criminals

TEHRAN- In every community the police are considered to be the symbol of peace and security. There are few societies in which citizens are afraid of seeing the police, and this is rooted in the name of the police, which comes from the Greek word (polis), which means city and civility.

By Faramarz Kuhpayeh

Soldier Negotiator Expert Spy

TEHRAN – “Few men can resist expressing their appetites when they're making a fantasy about themselves.” This sentence from the 2011 Cold War spy thriller film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sums up the story of Alireza Akbari, which came to an end on Saturday.

Violence and strikes in France, UK alongside anti-Iran propaganda  

TEHRAN- French security forces have attacked Kurdish protesters and strikes have paralyzed the UK; yet the difference of Western media coverage in comparison with recent events in Iran has been strikingly different.  

Warm banks; the British long for normal life  

TEHRAN- With sub-zero temperatures hitting the UK, "warm banks" are popping up across the country where people who can't afford their energy bills are taking refuge from the cold.

By Mehran Shamsuddin

Crushed in the West Encouraged in Iran

TEHRAN – While a considerable number of Iranian law enforcement forces lost their lives due to their limited powers in countering unrest, the UK is considering turning the tide and expanding police powers in order to make protesters feel the “force” of law.

Heat or Eat; that is the question?

TEHRAN- No, we didn't get the headline wrong! This is not Yemen or the Gaza Strip both under an all-out military blockade where food can't enter like in other parts of the world. A community worker with 20 years of experience told British state media "we have people who are eating pet food. [There are] people who are trying to heat their food on a radiator or a candle."

“Is Britain's year of strikes headed for an uprising?”

TEHRAN- That was a question posed by one of Britain’s most prominent and veteran political commentators Adam Boulton. With inflation surging to a decades-long record high, there are fears of coordinated national strike action among different unions representing millions of members, which could paralyze the country.

Brits paying 90% more for energy as inflation hits new record

TEHRAN- The rate of inflation in the United Kingdom rose to a 41-year high of 11.1% last month. The figure, led by the ever-increasing higher energy bills and food prices, is much more than what economists and government agencies had anticipated.

UK food banks at ‘breaking point’ as nurses set for historic walkout

TEHRAN- Food banks in the United Kingdom are on the brink of "breaking point" as a record number of British people seek assistance, while the stage has been set for British nurses to stage a walkout for the first time in history amid a worsening cost of living crisis.

UK households slipping into poverty

TEHRAN- The United Kingdom has been warned of a gloomy economic outlook with a recession now a certainty as a consequence of higher energy prices. This is while new figures show around half of British adults are struggling to pay their energy bills, rent, or mortgage payments.