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Police in frontier clash with Iranian Kurds
5/27/2011 Article - Untitled Article Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Jul 20, 1979; Section: None; Page: 7 Police in frontier clash with Iranian Kurcis Front UPI in Tchran ArniecL Kurds f o u g h t national pn licv uu ' I ( Th'aV tin' /Vcst lrnnian frontier town or Serow vcsu'rday as Uhr (;overn- ]nentp fl aR altenipt to UFLI l tjvc months of 1Curd h unrest. nanicu a new Gyvernur-Geper i1 flu is a native 0! the area. Pre;s repGrts frifin Set-ow said the cl.ishes ha d LiegLin on /Vednesd;iy when he u;itionul police tricri to move reinforce- men s into the area 1 1r t SUES mi]es of ironti r hava l i'en ihe scene ut sporadic violence &nce the L”ebrttary revolution. It wa; not iInnlediRfoly cle ir 1! tlir Kurds fighting the natior:a! pulluc In Screw belonged to the iucrvement which seeks Ku rdish utvnoiiiy. The S:ate rad Io dtscribed them as “counter-rcvo1utionarje . t 1 The EttelaaL newspaper, r ir tirig offidals saul a national police official had been wounded and several Rurd killed and wour.ded in . LJt÷grly 20 hours of fighting. KurdEsh NourCes in Teliran arrt1ITr Jeatli loll was much higher but cou ld not give any (letail;. T)ii iqood fl(j(J% The Iranian (‘alnnel. held a special •w si u n y('s( cnF y to consider what were believed to luive been eni ic 4 l dec [ sions taken un /Wdne day a L talks in Qmu w th Ayatollah Khoniein i 1 the dr cido Head of Slate. T :e Qorn inceling caine amid ,res5 reports of a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle. Little merged, though. e cce9t an ann oun cement thaL the coMro- ver5ial chief of nii1 ary poliee Generei! Azizollab Arnir B- l1i]iti had finally been ths- muised. The Interior Minister. Mr Sadeq F Stb confirmed GL'TL c'.ral flah ;.mi'S d L3In1s Ia1 ufter a Iu' Le between the Gov ernmen and the rel!giou le ider }i p. The General, who had been dismissed 10 days ago by the Defence Minister. Mr Tag u Iliahi, a44 promptly reinstated by the ayatollah, had proved to lie a highly ciubarrassing thorn in 11w sick of an already weak. eneil Government. According to a report /cstcr- day jn Baindad 1 e r ie o1 Teh. razVs more reliable daiUes, a Cabinet reshuthe was expected within a week. Contrary 10 widespread rumour, the Prime Min:stor was rith expected o Jeave h s post, the newspaper saLd . Meanwhile, In the south- wesiern port of Khorramsbahr. an Arab ulUmatum, threaten- ing new vio1 nce if their spin- tu l leader was rot released 1 expLi-ed peacefully fl 9 a n i. yesterday. The eiderly Shi'a leader GE Ii-an'z estiiuazed Iwo million Arab , Aya lollah Rhag- Inni was repDrted to l iive arrive d i Qom where 1w W i ' S e pece l to meit AyaloflaL Khom&rii to discuss the recent po J it al uphe vals and Arab demands for autonomy. Esarhier his supporters had feared lie had been kidnapped Early yesterday in the north- western town of Kboy. five former officials (if the Sha 1's regime were rxeeutc& as Was the former police chief n Qaz- yin, west of Tehran 1 archive.guardian.co.uk/.../getFiles.asp?. - . 1/2
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