Kurdish rebels under pressure

          
          5/27/2011 Article - Untitled Article
          Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Oct 24, 1979; Section: None; Page: 9
          Kurdlsh
          under
          pressure
          From Ufl in Tehrari
          Government troops pressed
          their offensive against Kurdish
          tribesmen in six 1VET Th
          Iranian towns yesterday after
          an Army general in the border
          region said That he wouW pTob
          ably declare a full-fledged war
          on the rebels.
          Any house from which revo-
          lutionary guards are fired upon
          will he razed . . - no matter
          how marty people are occupr-
          ing that huuse t ' t he Tehran
          Tim quoted General All
          Zahirnejad as saying. The
          general is commander of the
          Army gzirrison at Ururnieh,
          one of the J{urdish cities
          under siege flv il e Iraqi
          border.
          Press reports said that eight
          Goveronien: soldiers /vere
          ki;fled on Monday when a lauth
          mine exploded under th:ir
          truck outside the Kurdish cily
          of Piranshahr. TL dficial
          PARS news agency said that a
          six-year-old thUd was killed
          zind another person wounded
          yesterday when stiots + were
          red duiing a demonstration in
          Piranshahr.
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          5/27/2011 Article - Untitled Article
          In Sarclasht, another town on
          the Iraqi border, renewed
          shelling wrecked the Education
          Department building butted
          caused no casualties,
          Mahabad ttsetf has been
          without elect deity since Sun-
          c [ iy. A Government siege of
          the city continued yesterday.
          and was aggravated by food
          and fuel shortages caused b
          road Mocks around the city,
          held by the rebels.
          General Zahirnejad told the
          Teliran Times that he was
          c• poscd to the peate talks
          with the ICurds which began
          last week and then colthpsed
          after Army units cracked down
          on (lie rebels and laid siege to
          their positions Inside Mahabad.
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