IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Coups

· Socialist Challenge No. 167, 9 October 1980 · p. 6 of the scan · 236 words

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page 6 of the scan

Irag has provided sanctuary for officers and soldiers loyal to the old Iranian TORTOV organised under the Oveissi, Palizban and Bakhtiar.

They are trying to form a 'white supported and armed by imally. per aram. These exiled counte These exiled revo ntionaries could ink up in ans coup attempt with plotters in the Iranian army and the old state apparatus, not all of whom were uncovered the foiling preparations in June.

THE Iranian against Iraq has brought into the alliance bent destroying the Iranian revolution.

The Gulf states and Jordan, which had already been covertly aiding the Iraqi war effort, openly threatening to join it, while the fighting spirit of the Iranian people has caught the imperialists off guard When the calculated the effects of the US cutting off from Iran the parts lor hardware inherited from the Shah, they forgot to take into account the response Iranian masses.

Khorramshahr, Abadan, and Ahwaz the Iraqi troops are encountering fierce house-to-house resistance the people of these engage in combat the regular Iranian army As Tne Sunday acknowledged: "At the front, alongside Marxists and nationalists. Inis also apples to the oppressed minorites.

The Arabs of have by no means seen Iraq have been against the Iraq rulers, which is hardly any wonder when it was the areas, led by the oil wo the oil workers.

who were in the vanguard of the movement which overSocialist Challenge

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