Lacking | Socialist Action 1983

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Lacking any popular hase of support the Iranians could hardly have serious expectations of administering Iraq Tehran.

A failure for the coming offensive would bring home the reality to the Iranian population that the war cannot be won The Gulf war was begun by Saddam Hussein in the hope of a quick vicLOVA cheap success based on the expectation that the anti-Shah revoluțion had severely weakened the Iranian army. Saddam failed to take into acIraqi prisoners — victims of the war But neither the Iranian nor the Arab masses have anvthing to gain from such an intervention, or the different rany which the US would like to establish in Iran.

Both the Iranian and Iraqi al c anti-working dictatorships sacrificing thousands of lives for their own Socialists in the West can take neither side in the war, but should oppose ally imperialist intervention. The work of dealing with une Islamic fundanien. talist butchers can only bi that of the Iranian and Iraa workers