Not toilers region put up ty. This led the Khoninshahr, ON) has the against the Iranian revolution.
vances in Iran, nian territory counter-revolutionary the Iranian revolution.
What they and other imperialist smokescreen of Iran.
put it this week, destabilisation Bank, in Israel's drive toward war.
tremendous death tionary war, villages, masses responded to revolution by fight for the current government tinue the economic counterrevolutonor workers and farmers government.
fend Iran tacks!' October statement concluded:
nian masses against the countered by possiole ine demands Iraqi Troops Out Now! Imperialist Hands Off Iran!
Defend the Iranian Revolution!' Two years later, shahr.
The International Executive Committee ofthe Fourth International stands with the millions among une peoples or iran wno have mobilised in the streets over the past several days to hail the defeat of the Iraqi in vading army and the retaking of the city of Korramshahr by Iran. At the very outset of the war, twenty months ago young Iranian fighters, joined by the Arab population of that heroic but unsuccessful resistance to the Iraqi occupation of their ci people of Iran to rename it 'City of Blood. Although not all Iraqi forces have yet been expelled from Ira.
nian territory, the victory at Khoninshahr not tremendous symbolic significance for the Iranian masses but also goes a long way towards breaking the back of the war by imperialism and the Iraqi regime In response to these decisive military ad. the spokespersons for imperialism and pro-imperialist regimes such as those in Egypt and Saudi Arabia are warning Iran of the consequences of any move by Ira. nian forces into Iraqi territory in order to en sure Iran's borders and prevent shelling of Ira They are strengthening tront 'against actually fear is the impact which the revolution and the defeat of the counter-revolutionary Iraqi aggression will have on the class struggle throughout the region. It is for this reason that Washington behind a 'neutrality, have stood behind the invasion from the outset; they 'viewed it as a key front in their battle to crush the revolution of the workers and peasants o As Secretary of State Alexander Haig expressing Washington's worries over the Iraqi retreat, US 'Neutrality in the war was not the same as 'indifference'.
The imperialists fear that further advances by Iran to expel the Iraqi army and secure it.
borders will set off a crisis for the Saddan regime, and stimulate the mobilisation of the workers and peasants of Iraq. They fear the reactionary imperialist rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan. They fear the inspiration that will be drawn by the Palestinian people on the West southern Lebanon and inside the 1948 borders against Zionist repression and The imperialist-backed Iraqi war brought and destruction in wake. Thousands of Iranian fighters were kill ed or maimed and there are nearly 1.5 million Iranian war refugees. In conducting this reac Saddam sent thousands of Iraqi youths to their deaths. Massive destruction was rained on the cities, oil fields and port facilities of Iran This destruction, combined with the drain of resources to conduct the defensive war, and the imperialist economic boycott of Iran, has seriously exacerbated the living conditions of the Iranian workers and peasants. The Iranian this attack on their repeatedly • pouring into the streets, supporting the war effort and demanding actions against the hoaders, capitalists and officials who impeded this effort. The workers and peasants have continued the their own economic social and democratic demands against the policies of Although the imperialists have been dealt a setback, the defeat of Iraq will cause them to step up attacks on other fronts against the Including their effort to topple the current government, they will con boycott of Iran and escalate military aid and cooperation with forces. ine fight against this counterrevolutionary front and tor their own demands, the Iranian masses through their independent mobilisations will advance along the line of march towards a When the Iraqi invasion was launched in late 1980, the October meeting of the United Secretariat adopted a statement entitled 'Deagainst Iraq and imperialist atAt that time, the Iraqi invasion had already stalled following initial success. The The initial hopes of both Baghdad and im perialism for a swift victory were thwarted thanks largely to the mobilisation of the Ira Iraqi attack. designs of imperialism in the region can be urgently raising as widely as Full Support for the Efforts of the Iranian Masses to Defeat the Hands of Reaction!
the International Executive Committee reaffirms these demands in hailing the victory over Iraq at Khanin-