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40 Reported Dead in Southern Iran Town As Shiite Moslems Attack Bahai Members
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40 Reported Dead in Southern Iran Town
As Shiite Moslems Attack Bahai Members
TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (AP) —Shiitc
Moslems, in an outbreak of sectari-
- an violence in Shiraz, southern
Iran, were reported today to have
• attacked homes and businesses be-
longing to members of the Bahai
• sect. Forty of the attackers were
shot and killed, informed sources
reported.
The violence against the Bahais
nipted in the Shiraz suburb of
Saadi. Among the homes set ablaze
• were ones belongin to a former
army intelligence chief and several
noncommissioned members of the
army.
Informed sources in Shiraz, said
the army men used their weapons
to defend themselves and their fam-
ilics against the rioters, shooting
and kitIng at least 40 and wounding
corcs of others. An army corporal
win n.e lionic was burned was killed
by the u'icrs antI his family fled
aI(n 't. With hundreds of other
I Ia in Is a i thy mountain town.
the Mi lcms also attacked busi—
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Shiraz has been he Icquent
scene of anti-shah demonstrations
since civil unrest started 11 months
ago throughout Iran.
As the unrest grew, Shiite
Moslems put the pressure on the
sluih to dismiss members of the
rCt in influential 0 ositiOflS.
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that world oil prothi ets intel'
raise the price o t oil at their
end price meeting this wed
but he refused to speculate ot
precise outcome.
Mr. Jaidah also said that si
induced reduction of oil produ
in Iran will have no immedia'
feet on OPEC pricing. But he
that he was optimistic that Jr
oil production will pick up
and that other OPEC natio
any case could raise their pr
tion to “alleviate the problcr
declining Iranian output
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Egypt at a later date.”
Later, aides said this was meant
as an assurance to both sides that
even if the United States turned its
attention to othet' mailers, it would
not give up on icuelting an eventual
seUlement.
Asked to speuly the other
pressing inierniutional pi bls ins
demanding his attention, the pies i '
dent cited the tension between Ai '
gentina and Chile over the owner-
ship of disputed islands, Ike ;uetl n
tion efforts in Nicarn u4t and the
negotiations with the Soviet )niitui
over a new strategic mitts liuitttatiolt
agreement.
There are about 700,000 Bahas in
Iran and the sect has always played
a prominent role in the country's
social, economic and military life.
In an attempt to pacify religious
opponents, the shah replaced bank
presidents, several generals and the
president of Iran Air, retired Ai
Force Gen. Ali Mohammed Khade-
ml. Gen. Khademi later committed
suicide because of accusations that
he had misapprOpriateel funds of
the national air carrier, the govern-
ment had said.
The military governments mean- day night before they were gunned
while, maintained official silence down.
about reports that rebellious troops - The government has declined to
shot and killed at least 12 imperial comment on the version reported
guard officers and wounded more by. informed sources, that the at-
than 20 this week in a camp close tack on the officers mess was made
to the shah's Niavaran Palace resi- by three troo ers on Monday
dence. whose fate is an nown.
Official sources yesterday
claimed that three terrorists dressed The government tried to et the
in military uniforms sprayed a bar- economy rolling, again srit on-
racks with bullets from their auto- certed efforti to soh'e ' cripphng
matic weapons. wounding at least strike by 37,000 oil field workers
20 soldiers at Levizan camp Tues- now in its 12th day.
Iran Oil Production Reported Very Low
PARIS, Dcc. 15 (AP) — Iranian
offshore oil production came to a
cornpletc halt this week, while
onshore crude oil for export dwin-
dled to a trickle of 600,000 barrels
a day, according to a confidential
report obtained here today.
The little oil being exported is
exclusively for Consortium mem-
bets, according to the report h)' oil
ntIiu si ty experts that is being circu—
l; ,tcd among miii c4imnpanics. iliose
incmnhcrs CoilSist it a luinillill of
large, mostly nun—A nmc.mica ii, cm am
panics.
The report was shown to the As-
sociau d Press-Dow Jones news ser-
vice on condition that the source
remain unidentified.
It sai .l the virtual halt in produc-
tion came two days ago. Daily pro-
duction now stands at 1.1 million
barrels — one si tth of its usual rate
—with the unexported crude going
for domestic consumption..
Iran had 35 producing oilfields
in 1976,22 of them on land. -
1ran's oil industry has been crip-
pled by strikes. Before the civil
strife in the country, iran was the
world's second largest exporter of
crude, and it produced about 6 mil-
lion barrels a day.
ihe mepori said productioli was
so bmw that the National Iranian
Oil (.o. was lryin to purchase
products primarily jet fuel, on. thc/
international market.
But consumer intake terminals in
Iran were not functioning, and it
‘Broad Gaiiuut'
• .“There's such a broad ‘gamut of
things that I need Secretary Vance
back here,” he said, explaining why
he had ordered the secretary to cnd
his Middle East shuttle and return
home today.
Mr. Carter said the Argentina-
Chile dispute “could erupt into a
conflict.” But other administration
officials said that despite this, a
major purpose in recalling Mr.
Vance was to jolt the Israelis into
serious consideration of the latest
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- Carter May Call
China Sumnilt
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (AP)
— President Carter hastily ar-
ranged a televised address to the
nation late this evening amid re-
ports that he would announce plans
for a U.S-Chinese summit and
resumption of, full diplomatic rela-
tions. • -
An administration source said
‘‘- . .‘ . r -” ii..
was difficult to tell how imported
oil would reach its destination, the
report added.
Russians Seen Hurt
By Iran. Oil Strike.
• BRUSSELS, Dec. 15 — The oil
strike in Iran has cut the flow of
Iranian, natural gas to the Soviet
Union and threatened tO interfere
with an important Soviet trade
agm'ccnscnt in Western Europe, dip-
lomat ic sources said yesterday.
l'hc Soviet Union imports sub-
stantial quniltitieS of Iranian gas,
then delivers domestic gas to West-
ern Europe, which pays for it in
brirs iit reflCii 'f that are much in
