The U.S. government is using its economic power and threatening to use its vast military arsenal to impose imperialist interests in Iran.
In an arrogant response to the demands of the Iranian working masses for the return of the shah and the wealth he plunder ed, the U.S. rulers have escalated their aggressive moves.
A fleet of U.S., British, Australian, and New Zealand war shi ps has been activated in the Arabian Sea. American troops have been placed on the alert in the United States. Carter has ordered a boycott of Iranian oil and has frozen more than $6 billion in assets held by the Iranian government in the United States.
A chauvinist war hysteria is being whipped up by the imperialist governments and capitalist media around the world to justify these moves. This campaign portrays the Iranian masses as bloodthirsty, reactionary religious fanatics. It blames the Iranian people, especially the heroic oil workers, for the energy crisis contrived by the imperialist oil monopolies.
Right-wing hooligan attacks on Iranian citizens in the United States are being used to create the impression that American workers want to go to war against their Iranian brothers and sisters.
But neither the American working class nor the workers and oppressed masses around the world want an imperialist military intervention in Iran. They know the Iranian people struck a blow for freedom around the world when they threw out the butcher shah and his imperialist advisers.
Carter calls the Iranian people "terrorists." But the real terrorists in Iran have been the imperialist powers who armed the shah to the hilt, and the CIA and Israeli agents and the SAVAK agents they trained, who were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and untold numbers of torture victims.
Today the Iranian masses are fighting to extend the revolution that ousted the despotic regime of the shah, to win full social and economic equality, and to end imperialist interference. They deserve the fullest solidarity from the world working class.
The World Congress of the Fourth International calls on all workers organizations around the world to mobilize the broadest possible campaign of action against Washington's military threats in Iran.
Return the murderer shah to be tried for his crimes!
Give back the wealth stolen from the toiling masses of Iran!
U.S. hands off Iran! Withdraw the imperialist fleet from the Arabian Sea!