THE SHAH'S ARMY DEATH TO THE GENERALS

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THE carnage of recent days in up any lingering doubts over the nature of the Bakhtiar government.

Ayatollah Khomeini's refusal to have anything to do Bakhtiar has CUTTCCE.

First Bakhtiar tried ham-fisted deceit, pretending that Khomeini had agreed to meet him in France.

When that failed he let the army out on the rampage.

Eyewitnesses tell of the cold-bloodedness of the killings: soldiers lined up on rooftops and in the streets, firing vollies at chest height whose only aim can have been to kill.

Only professional army units were used, conscripts being reckoned unreliable.

But even army morale was low. Several soldiers joined the demonstrators, some of them after shooting particularly brutal colleagues.

The people got symbolic revenge on Monday when they waylaid a general of the paramilitary merie. The violence of the treatment received was an indication of the frustration and anger at thousands of brutal army murders.

It was the who intervened to stop the general hanged.

This should serve as a gendar- warning of the future role the religious leaders he likely though so far they have been obliged pace with mass feelings.

And mullahs Khomeini, is of course the most being symbol of the struggle.

Bakhtiar

Popular justice against the military murderers as general is attacked in the streets of Tehran on Monday.

into Iran at once.

Iran's to play, to keep of them, out.

unbending should be forced to let him back generals are beginning to show their military power. The threat of a twice coup to bring back the Shah cannot be ruled Although they may favour such solution at the moment, it is the imperialists who have supplied the army with the wherewithal -highly sophisticated establishment the Size of Britain's.

The fight now must be to force the Labour government to draw all military aidfor British guns will be used directly against the Iranian workers and peasants.

The first chance to do this will be on Saturday 3 February, in a march of solidarity. Assemble Trafalgar Sq, London at 1.30.

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