IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

IRANIAN PEOPLE THREATENED BY COUP ATTEMPT

· Socialist Challenge No. 158, 31 July 1980 · p. 9 of the scan · 297 words

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Oil companies In co-operation with the Western oil companies Shah undertook revolution' whose main benefithe capitalist class to install a military dictatorship in Iran ex-prime minister Bakhtiar have failed. Now a third has been - led by the man who was known as the 'Butcher of Tehran'.

The latest coup plot is still in British news acorde Now in it 25 July issue the magazine revealed 7.000-strong 'Liberation has been trained in stationed in frontier camps on the commande forces Gholam the who was directly responsible for of peaceful demonstrators against it was Oveissi wno gave the orders on Bloody Friday the In september 19/8, wnen 3,00 •and end discussied visited with US officials. Afterwards he . "By the end of the I shall be master of Now! •The immediate objective is to establish Lital bases at Ahwaz in the oil province and at Hamadan, • Kurdish Onci Oveissi's agents succeeded they on disaffected troops and the local population to join them, then re-group to march or the holy city of Quom, and finall This plan appears much mo etermined and seriol than General Oveissi in london in June 1973 theological colleges in Qom and une residences or une majonly or deputies to the Iranian One of the first acts of the new American hostages, claimed the Monitor report the ex DOSUlt conspiracies provide: additional support for Bani-Sadr's assertio the raid Washington on 24 April the 'fiasco in the desert' was part of broader military plan to bring down the Iranian government.

The type of regime installed b such a coup would inevitably be devoted to crushing the resistance of the working class and peasantr Iran. No quarter could be expecte from the likes of Oveissi.

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