After a century of struggle against colonial and imperialist domination the Iranian people have overthrown the hated regime of the shah and have weakened the hold of the imperialist predators. They are struggling to break the imperialist and capitalist yoke over the country. The advance of revolution, the gains that it has made, and its tendency to develop have come into irreconcilable conflict with the interests of the United States and other imperialist powers and with the reactionary forces in the region.
To attempt to roll back and defeat the [Iranian revolution, the imperialist powers have resorted to economic blockade, political pressure, and military threats. The imperialists have encouraged the Iraqi regime’s aggression against the Iranian revolution, The Iraqi regime has occupied territory of Iran, bombarded civilian population causing death and misery, and created more than one million refugees.
The Iraqi regime’s aggression however, has not achieved its goal of reversing the Iranian revolution. The heroic struggle of the Iranian toilers waged through a mass resistance movement, halted the advance of the Iraqi aggression.
The Iraqi people, who are themselves victims of imperialist oppression and capitalist exploitation, have no interest in this criminal drive of the Saddam Hussein regime against the Iranian revolution. Their liberation lies in uniting with the Iranian revolution and fighting against the counterrevolutionary war of the Iraqi regime.
Against the opposition of the military hierarchy, soldiers, workers, and peasants of Iran mobilized against the Iraqi attack. The Fourth International hails this struggle to extend and defend the Iranian revolution against the military aggression waged by the Baghdad regime, and the drive of the imperialist and reactionary forces inside and outside Iran to reverse the revolution. The Fourth International supports the struggle of the workers and peasants and of the oppressed Kurdish people in Iran and Iraq against repression and for their self-determination—all of which are in the interests of the oppressed people and aid the defense of the Iranian revolution. In the interests of the peoples of Iran and Iraq, we call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Iraqi troops from Iran, We will do all in our power to spread the truth about the Iranian revolution, to mobilize and build solidarity among the working people of the world. Imperialist hands off Iran! For immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Iran! Long live the Iranian revolution!