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• Isfahan % Bandar Shampoor •Shiraz EBAHRAIN QATAR carve-up of the Iran would unspectacular was a man of his word.

But there weakness to measures in its defence. agreed the • Yazd Kerman • FARS ndar Abbas world with imperialism. The deal was that be outside his sphere of influence and, when it Iran came to this sort of issue, Stalin counterpart. was the Mahabad and one that chronically through the Kurdish movement: the republic failed to enact the radical social comrades.

agrarian reform Barzani, the above all, that would enable it to enthuse the Kurdish masses Another permanent problem inside Iran.

SISTAN Zahedan • have BALUCHESTAN E GULF OF OMAN has been relations with the Kurdish movement in Iraq. The Kurdish Democratic Party of has always tried maintain organisational inde Iraqi But for a long time it was simply cheerleader to the struggle over the border.

From 1961 the KDPI sent arms and guerillas to help its This was fine until Iraqi Kurdish leader, concluded an agreement with the Shah and ordered a freeze on nationalist activities crucial weakening of garrisons in Kurdistan.

Despite the Kurdish movement's large contribution to the revolution, few of the pan-Iranian political parties have a clear position for the right of national self-determination.

The guerilla organisations abstained any position, though many sections of the Fedayeen guerillas are sympathetic self-determination.

• The bourgeois National Front and the religious movement both for maintaining the unity of the Iranian 'nation'. The Tudeh party claims it supports self-determination at the same time as declaring itself for the "territorial unity' of Iran.

Any future revolutionary government in Tehran will find support for national self determination indispensable. The dictum about 'disunion for the purpose of union' was coined in reference to a country composed entirely of national minorities the Russian Empire - and it applies equally to this modern multinational empire Any attempt to place 'national' unity above the recognition of this democratic right will in fact divide the revolution fatally.