Kurds say cease-fire is set to start today

          
          Tebran, La (Reuter)—fran's ruling
          Muslim religious leaders have agreed to
          proclaim a cease-fire today on all fronts
          in the Kurdish revolt, a spokesman for
          Kurdish negotiators said yesterday.
          The announcement, for which there
          was no official government confirmation,
          came as the official Pars news agency it-
          ported that two Iraqi military officers had
          been captured in the recent fighting in
          Paveb and sent to Tehtan for questioning.
          - It was the first suggestion that any
          Iraqi military personnel might be in-
          voWed in the fighting. Iranian officials
          have charged that civilian Kurds from
          across the Iraqi border might be involved
          in the tight for autonomy.
          The Kurdish spokesman, Dr. Rabim
          Self Ghazl, said the cease-fire agreement
          was reached after talks yesterday with
          Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, Tehran's
          spiritual leader.
          Re said the ayatollah bad promised
          that the state radio would broadcast a
          cease-fire order by this morning and that
          formal negotiations for peace would
          begin.
          A five-man delegation from the rebel
          capital of Mahabad has been negotiating
          mainly with Iran's religious leadership In
          Tebran, but three government ministers
          have been involved in the talks.
          Two trusted aides of Ayatollah Rubol-
          lab Khomeini went to the holy city of
          Qona, 95 miles south of here, earlier yes-
          terday to convey the Kurdish proposals to
          Iran's unofficial head of state.
          Dr. Gbazi said the Kurdish negotiating
          team had been invited to attend a meeting
          of Iran's council of constitutional experts
          today from which the leader of the banned
          Kurdlsh Democratic party (KDP) was ex-
          pelled earlier this month.
          The talks with the government were
          headed by Ahdul Rahman Abbasi, head of
          Mahabad's Islamic Revolutionary Council.
          The five-man delegation also included the
          governor of the rebel city. Hassan Baba-
          taheri.
          The team Included Mostafa All Cham-
          ran, the deputy premier, who was at the
          center of fighting 10 days ago in the Turk-
          ish border area, and the powerful Ayàtol-
          lah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti.
          The Kurds have not specified their
          proposals, but Dr. Ghazi said the team bad
          asked for the removal of Ayatollah Sadegh
          Khalkhali, the roving religious judge who
          has condemned more than 50 persons to
          death since arriving to punish Kurdish in-
          surgents 10 days ago.
          Dr. Ghazi said he also hoped the Army
          would agree not to push on to the Kurds'
          mountain stronghold of Mahabad. A col-
          unin of Army tanks has been deployed
          southeast of Mahabad for the past three
          days.
          A spokesman for the Kurdish Demo-
          cratic party said be had received reports
          the Army also was massing forces at
          Miandoab, in the northeast
          Dr. Ghazi said the autonomy-seeking
          Kurds felt that the basis for a permanent
          solution of their problem could be negoti-
          ated, but added that a wide representation
          of Kurds would have to be Invited to the
          final talks.
          Any cease-fire would depend on the en-
          dorsement of Ayatollah KhomeInI, who
          last week declared himself supreme com-
          mander of the armed forces In order to
          launch a full-scale military campaIgn
          against the Kurds, Mr. Chazi said.
          Ayatollah Khalkball sentenced it more
          persons to death yesterday, according to
          state radio.
          He found nine of them guilty of armed
          rebellion against the Islamic Republic and
          taking part In the recent fighting against
          government forces.
          The other two were former officials of
          the shah's regime, one of them a general.
          All were executed by firing squad yes-
          terday In the Kurdistan provincial capital
          of Sananda), the radio reported.
          Previously the state radio reported 45
          executions by authorities In the Kurdisls
          region since the fighting began 10 days
          ago.
          The Pars news agency said yesterday
          the KDP had executed four hostages- Last
          week the KDP threatened to execute one
          revolutionary guard for every j(urd the
          government sent to the firing squad.
          Shopkeeper's feet whipped
          as crowd cheers in Tehran.
          Tehran, Ir CAP—A mIddle-aged
          shopkeeper was hipped on the soles of
          his feet outside his shop near the Tehran
          bazaar yesterday in the capital's first
          street flogging since the February revolu-
          lion.
          The shopkeeper. Identified by the local
          press as Cyrus Anavin, was held down on
          his back across a bench by two revolu-
          tionary guards while a crowd of 2,000
          cheering spectators chanted “Israel is de-
          feated, Islam Is victorious.”
          A placard put up In the window of Mr.
          Anavin's cloth shop proclaimed him to be
          a profiteer and a counter-revolutionary
          element.
          Mr. Anavin was one of three shopkeep-
          ers flogged in Tehran yesterday following
          an official order from the Islamic revolu-
          tionary courts that profiteers should be
          punished publicly. Special volunteer
          squads are checking on shop prices to en-
          force the new law.
          The crowd counted aloud as the 25
          strokes were admInistered to the shop-
          keeper's stockinged feet with a leather
          whip by a man in civilian clothes. At the
          end the spectators, who had been chanting
          “Death to profiteers,” put up a great cry
          of “Allah-o.akbar” (God is great).
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          The bnstinado, or whipping of the soles
          of the feet, was a traditional form of pun-
          ishment in until It was abolished
          earlier thisciEtii?y.
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