During the last ten years over one thousand army officers have been foaled or shot in Persia, Countless thousands of civilians have been imprisoned or executed for political offences. Recently, ne Bazargan, a professor at Teheran University and leader of the sae a Group section of the outlawed opposition National Front, was sentence to ten years imprisonmonte All opposition parties are hanned $ trade unions are run by the SAVAK secret police and unofficial strikes ; ruthlessly suppressed. The Shah does not hesitate to massacre his subjects.
by a special correspondont
Recently an appeal was smuggled out of Persia from 19 army officers, arrested in 1954, shortly after the Governmont of Dr. Mossadegh was ousted by a royalist coup d'etat, for which chief credit must go to CIA” head Allen Dulles, ox-Nazi sympathiser Genoral Zahedi and Teheran undorworld boss, Shaben DBi-Mukh. The royalist Government set about ruthlessly eliminating all oppositionists from the army and the civil service, The officers named below were anong those purged; they fear that their plight has been forgotten. They have »o-n nomad 8Ut aan in Teheran to Braz jany, in a desolate area nexar the Persian Gulf. They can make no contacts with the world outside their prison, but they remzin confident that their country will be liberated soon, Socialists everywhere should support the anti-Shah and anti-imperialist struggle in Persia and agitate for the release of all political prisoners,