Kurds beat back
Socialist Press1979 1979-10-31Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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Khomeini Even while they declaim their support for the struggles of the Palestinian people, the religious bigots of the Iranian regime are still working to massacre the struggles of the Kurdish people against national oppression.
But Khomeini's strategy of military occupation and repression has failed to crush the Kurds into submission.
Returning from the hills, militants of the Kurdish nationalist movement have once again seized control of the streets of Mahabad.
As army units were powerless to move out from the barracks in which they were beseiged, Khemeini's forces imposed a blockade on all supplies to the town and negotiators scurried to and fro.
After dire warnings from military chiefs, the religious tyrants have been forced to recognise their inability to defeat the Kurdish forces and the necessity of diplomatic methods.
After eight months of strenuous and violent activity, Khomeini has still proved unable to impose a stable dictatorship in Iran against the opposition from the nationalist movements of the Kurds and the Arabs in Khuzestan, and in face of the still undefeated though massively confused strength of the powerful Iranian proletariat.