TWO men were escorted to Heathrow last week and forcibly put on a plane to Teheran. Their deportation brought howls of delight from much of the mass media.
Yet the two Iranians had not, for example, been buying arms to mow down hundreds thousands of Iranian people.
That was the privilege of the late Shah of Iran, whose Britain • Were accompanied by ceremonies at Buckingham Palace neighbouring Palace of Westminster.
Neither had the two deportees been spying on Iranians in kritain. which was the role of Savak, the former Iranian policeterrorist squad, who received the hospitality and assistance of the British Home Office.
The two Iranians were among the 72 arrested outside the 'American Embassy in London for the crime of protesting at the country's support for the tyrant Shah and its continuing attempts to bludgeon the Iranian peo ple into accepting the rule of imperialism.
The demonstrators also had the audacity to protest at being assaulted by the Metropolitan Police. They ought, of to know that it is 'unBritish' to object to being beaten up by the cops on picket lines.
For these assorted threatsto civilisation as we know it, 44 of those arrested face deportation.
the magistrates, press such as the Daily Mail (front page headline: 'Exit a trouble maker'), the deportations are an opportunity to wave the shrivelled fist of British at the people who dared to overthrow the West's puppet.
Socialists should oppose the deportations, and condemn the racism and chauvinism which accompany them.
It's the old heave-ho as Britain turfs out first of
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By Geoffrey Sheridan