bourgeoisie government.
major ones revolution can be halted a promisingly stage, short of workers' power, party itself. CLOSES is increasingly discredited -partly because of the momentum of the mass struggle and partly because of the Chinese bureaucracy's support for the The logic of the Fedayeen's Faruhar position on armed struggle is to proceed to smash the remains of the army and replace it with Geraceness masses. Once that happens it will be difficult to turn the until TWO leaders of the National Front have been included in the Bazargan government.
The party's social base is the Tehran bazaar — a layer that is both intransigently opposed to the old regime and stabilise a new pro-capitalist The Front itself is what its name suggests — a coalition of groups, of which there are three Dariush Faruhar, the labour and social minister, leads the section of the National Front with the most affinity to its namesake. His Iran Nationalist party is uncompan-franist, though it refrains from the Pan-Iranist The latter models itself on the Nazis and stands for the annexation of Bahrain, Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan and the Soviet Union.
IS a prominent The centre section of the Front was led by former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar This expulsion for accepting office under the Shah six weeks ago. That Bakhtiar could have been in the Front so recently is an indication of how far to the right Faruhar's group really is.
Karim Sanjabi, now Bazargan's Foreign Minister, is the National Front's general secretary and leads its liberal wing, the Society of Iranian Socialists. Since his recent visit to Khomeini in Neuphie-leChateau, Sanjabi's salon radicalism has been reduced to total oenticanon win the religious leader.
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