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Tehran. clearly showed. hundreds are US imperialism would dearly love to overinrow ine regime ana replace it with a new righ wing government, perhaps based on the army just as they did in the CIA-organised coup of The Khomeini regime, by launching an offensive against the most advanced sections of the masses, is doing lne airty work oruperialism, paving the way for precisely such a The events of this summer marked a turning point in the iranian crisis. First, the regime alarmed by the growth of the opposition's support launched a murderous attack on a Mujahadin demonstration, killing hundreds of The Mujahadin's response was to launch a bombing campaign against the leadership of the regime, assassinating some of the most prominent political figures in the nation. Every day brings fresh reports of machine gun battles in With the regime opposed by the openly pro-imperialist right wing and by an increasing number of the working masses, its days are almost certainly numbered. The question is, what will replace it?
It would be an illusion to believe that the en tire social base of the regime has disappeared, as tne mobilsalons agamst ine assassilialiul But Iran is a society in turmoil; thousands COT poor dispossessed have flooded into Tehran.
The social basis of the regime now increasingly rests on these dispossessed. The recruits to the revolutionary guards and the hezbollahis trom the lumpen street defeated by mass mobilisation. in a frontal battle.
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