Khorhamshar. For all the Iragi effort, this occupation is still very precarious. Despite continuous claims, Iraq has been unable to take either Abadan or Ahwaz, even after weeks of destructive bombardment.
Iraq aimed to destabilise the Khomeini regime through the invasion, but after two months of fighting it is the Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein who is in trouble Seven Iraqi opposition groups have formthrow of Hussein. The 'National Pan-Arab Democratic Front in Iraq' is composed of communists, and various socialists and Kurorganisations. The front has declared that it wants to 'consolidate its links with the Iranian revolution'. They also state that they would grant 'self-rule' to the Kurds in norIran, Ine war is political policies into sharp relief. The basic acvelop organisation of the workers and peasants, or to try to push back the continuing mobiisations and strengthen the structures around the army. *leadership is divided on these questions.
The stubborn resistance in Abadan and Khorhamshar has been achieved through the fighting spirit mullahs, Iraq'. casualties for throwing all selfmass old state The Khomeini of the ordinary workers alongside the Islamic militia — the Pasdars — and the Mujehedin and Fedayin guerrillas. The 15 November issue of the The Economist reported: 'Puzzlingly, most of Iran's army has been watching from the hillside while the intantry and the revolutionary guards, go whistling into the slaughter with The Daily Telegraph on 20 November quoted president Bani Sadr's defence of the inactivity of the army in front of one million people at the ashura religious holiday: should not arrive at conditions where our army, like the Iraqi army, has to sustain heavy an insignificant victory'. asked the nation to unite around the Army.
Iran's rulers would rather forgo militar success than aid the present process of self-organisation and arming of the people In Teheran there are demonstrations daily. Many of them are spontaneously organis ed, and independent of the clergy. One and a half million people demonstrated outside the American Embassy on the first anniversary of the taking of the hostages. They demanded that any agreement with the US should be favourable to the revolution. Iranian president Bani Sadr The Teheran able-bodied Iranians.
inion no documentation could be UHOT jehedin.
the Iranian Revolutionary against Iraq has activists to be released.
Federation of Islamic Shorahs (workers' committees) is running a military training camp attended by workers from dozens of factories. This situation has forced Khomeini to call for the arming of all The recent repressive measures against left-wing activists are aimed at undermining the mass movement. Mohamed Reza Saadati, leader of the left-wing muslim organisation, the Mujehedin, has been sentenced to 10 years "spying Soviet duced by the prosecution to support this charge. The judge at the trial has now called for the arrest of all the leaders of the MuOther left-wing activists have been arrested including Nemat Jazayeri, a leader of Workers Party (HKE), a sympathising organisation of the Fourth International. Several newspapers, including that of the Tudeh (Communist) Party have be.". banned and their offices closed.
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