THERE is one big reason why Carter is holding back from military action against Yet it Is hardly publicly. That reason is USSR.
Imperialism's hold on the globe been weakened by the one-third of the population from its control. The abolition property relations in the USSR and other workers states means that they exert attraction towards the oppressed masses of the world.
The workers states acts not merely as a deterrent to tae smicnical warmongers; it provides a basis for further shifting the balance of forces against imperialism.
Yet the Kremlin studied neutrality recent events in Iran. Worse, its representatives at the United Nations actually voted for the US-sponsored manding embassy hostages, sanctioning continued protection of the Shab.
They Iranian mentioned special meeting the American imperialists' mortally removal of held.
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towards In other deof the thereby US latter will ber 1979 Page 4 suppori the initial demand of the refused government 0I the UN cing. Security Council to discuss the threat of war against Iran, insisting that the hostages be released before any meeting would be wars Why has Moscow ducked people such a golden opportunity to about put the US government in the public opinion and expose its record LU of three decades of support to The answer lies in its policy co-existence' Rather than 11 IT: ratification of the SALT treaty with the US, the Kremlin bureaucrats refuse to come to the aid of the Iranian WOrdS. starting from the premise of 'building socialism in one country, they put the interests of their own privileged caste above those of the workers of the world. And there can be no doubt that the increasingly their own political conclusions. American settlers — nas made the John Wayne syndrome less convinIn that sense some comparison can be made between the real story of the American West and that of the US in Iran; the truth being that the United States of America has a record of 'hot "cold wars', and war subversion which makes the Iranian • understandably suspicious those American 'diplomats' in Tehran were really up Peace-terms Matthews, Us Secretary of State, pul 1950 Francis it this way when justifying the US courtesy United Nations: "We should boldly proclaim our undeniable objective to be world peace. To have peace we should be willing, and declare our intention, to pay any price, even the price of instituting a war, to compe co-operation for peace.
Or, to put it another way, if any country in the world fails to agree with what America means by "peace, then it will be invaded or bombed to smithereens until it does.
This principle has not just been verbally stated. The Iranian people