The World Confederation Of Iranian Students (WCIS) has learned with utmost amazement and regret that Ashraf Pahlavi has been invited for a IO-day visit to the People's Republic of China.

…Such an invitation...is in no way justifiable for the movement of the youth and progressive and anti-imperialist forces of Iran.

Your government has invited Ashraf, who, next to her brother, is the most hated and the most reactionary element of the Pahlavi court. She is the element who has been directly involved in, and played a determining role in, the Black Coup of 1953, and being an agent of the CIA, has rendered the greatest service to the American and British imperialists and Iranian reaction. She, along with per dictator-butcher brother, has had a decisive role in betraying the interests of our people and in carrying out the killings of our revolutionaries and freedom lovers.

...Even more important, this invitation is taking place at a time when:

The anti-imperialist and anti-dictatorial movement of our people is in the midst of a new upsurge;

this movement is strongly under the savage attack of the fascist regime of the Shah of Iran;

The best revolutionary fighters of our country, group after group, are being tried in closed military "courts" and executed or being murdered in torture chambers;

The anti-imperialist movement of our youth and people, more than at any other time, is in need of support and solidarity of...the revolutionary and anti- imperialist forces of the world....

The WCIS in the name of the democratic and anti-imperialist movement of Iranian students and in the name of the anti-imperialist students and youth of Iran, and taking into account the above facts, objects to the act of the government of the People's Republic of China inviting such a hated element like Ashraf, and considers this act, not in the interests of our people but in the interest of profiting that puppet regime-which right now; with the help of imperialists and reactionary forces of the world, is preparing to celebrate the 2500th year of the "kingdom" of Iran in order to cover and mask its great economic difficulties and dead-ends, in order to deceive Iranian and world public opinion. For this, and in order to show that Iran is a "stable and independent island," it has started an unprecedented fascist campaign of terror and attack against our people and our revolutionary elements.

Our people, who have always rightly desired the recognition of the People's Republic of China on a world scale and have been true and ardent supporters of friendship between the Iranian and Chinese peoples, as before, with untiring and determined spirit, will continue its struggle against imperialism and its functionaries in Iran, against the fascist dictatorship of the Shah, in order to build the real cornerstone of this friendship.

Victory to the common struggle of the peoples of the world against imperialism and its running dogs!

Long live the militant unity of the peoples of Iran and China!