The Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) or UIC(S) for short, was a Maoist organisation that adopted people's war as its line of struggle.

In this year the UIC(S) mobilised forces in forests around Amol and launched an armed campaign against the Islamic Republic.

Zaim was arrested by the Revolutionary Guard after they retook Amol by force, and eventually executed in 1984 in spite of a pardon from death granted for helping end the firefight.

After the failure of the uprising the UIC(S) went through a difficult period with most of its leadership and members arrested or killed.

The Little Black Fish (Persian: ماهی سیاه کوچولو) is a 2014 Iranian film by Majid Esmaeili Parsa about Amol uprising.