Butchery and arson by Owen's friend
Socialist Press1978 1978-11-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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"Our report is drawn from the observations of people in Abadan-people who were at the Rex Cinema, people who gathered as the full horror of the death trap unfolded, people whose sons. and daughters, sisters and The remains of the Rex cinema As the regime of the Shah totters the Labour government is in the forefront of international efforts to prop it up.
As the Iranian masses demand with one voice the removal of his murderous regime, the Shah takes his cue from David Owen and announces 'concessions' . An inquiry into this or that puppet. Another promise of elections in the distant future. A reference to 'mistakes' Meanwhile he turns to a government of generals, the 'persuasion' of tanks and The n lateria Resistan. ce, pur ociațion of the below lished United excE the ates. the 'order' of murder troops on the streets.
The biggest threat to his regime comes from the working class with political strike of the oil fields as drastie for the! capitalist customers as for. the regime itself.
Sympathetic as ever, the Shah calls in the troops. David Owen and Jimmy Carter the two exponents of 'human rights' talk of the need for order; for stability; for oil.
To support them the Shah releases some political prisoners and then sends his soldiers onto the streets tol refill the jails and the Pd from the pap: lian Students As