Fighting against Kurds apparently grows in Iran

          
          Tehran Iran (A?) —Iran's revolution.
          ary government yesterday announced new
          moves against secessionist Kurds on
          Iran's western borders and reports from
          Turkey said more than 500 persons were
          killed in fighting near the frontier.
          A Turkish newspaper reported Iranian
          helicopters had crossing the border
          in northweste to pursue Kurdish
          rebels fleeing Into Turkey.
          Farther south, some 20,000 Kurds
          abandoned the town of Marivan near the
          Iraqi border, according to newspapers In
          Tebran. They said the Kurds were settling
          in camps near the frontier to protest the
          government's dispatch of revolutionary
          guards to maintain order.
          Iran's state radio said Army units in
          the border zone with Turkey were on a
          “state of alert.”
          The government radio also reported
          firing squads bad executed two men and
          two women on charges ranging from rape
          and murder to running a brothel and a
          drug ring.
          That brought to 354 the number of per.
          sons killed by firing squads since followers
          of Muslim leader Ayatollah Ruhollab
          Khomeini ousted Shah Moharnmad Reza
          Ici innnarv
          In Tehran, the government ordered the
          expulsion of New York Times corre-
          spondent Yonssef M. Ibrabim, saying it
          was “unhappy” with bin reporting. He is
          the second correspondent expelled this
          month.
          Mr. Thrahim was ordered to leave “on
          the first opportunity that will not cause
          any Inconvenience.” The newsman said he
          gave Prime Minister Mebdi Bazargan a
          letter asking him to review the deporta-
          tion order.
          “They failed to specify what articles
          they were unhappy about,” Mr. Ibrahim
          said, adding: “I feel the New York Times
          coverage has been fair and accurate up
          until now and before the revolution.”
          In New York, Seymour Topping, man-
          aging editor of the Times, expressed the
          newspaper's “regret” and Said: “We fully
          support Mr. Ibralilm, who has done an ex-
          cellent, objective job of reporting before
          and after the revolution, often under diffi-
          cult circumstances.”
          David Lamb of the Los Angeles Times
          was expelled July 1, wIth officials ex-
          pressing disapproval of articles printed by
          that naner.
          Fighting against Kurds apparently grows in Iran
          The Sw, (1837-1985); Jul 23. 1979; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Sun, The (1837-1986)
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          Fighting against Kurds
          apparently grows in Iran
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