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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