Little differentiation between Kurds and KDP members during the air raids by fighter planes and helicopter gunships LOWI of Paveh during the summary executions which followed the capture of those towns. And the executions of non-Kurdish medical teams who were tending the Kurdish wounded what is meant by the Iranian citizens. All who stand in the way of Khomeini's programme for an Islamic Republic are equal fodder for his goon squads.
The letters to the faithfully reflect Khomeini's plans for national reconstruction. ally material basis struggles which overthrew the Shah, provision overcoming the appalling conditions of poverty in which the majority of Iranians live. "The struggle was waged for Islam'; says the Ayatollah. inconceivable that anyone would have sacrificed his son for a cheaper melon or house.' The draft constitution of the Islamic Republic, nOW end of passage through 'Council of Experts' programme: assertion of the unity of all classes of Moslems against the infidels and their foreign ideologies; sanctity of private popular control fundamental decisions life; institutionalised male supremacy and the extreme oppression Kaminis assertion fundamentally Islamic character the February uprising, insistence оп the necessity defending the unity of the revolution, are a smokescreen designed not only to obscure the class conflicts which haye emerged, but also to deny the ethnic and linguistic differences Iran, which are one of the channels through which the class flows. While the ideological content of his nationalism differs from that of the Shah, the underlying motive is the