Foes Schedule Day of Mourning Monday to Test Shah’s Strength

December 16, 1978

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By R. W. APPLE Jr.
TEHERAN, Imn, bec. 15 The li ent could not restore same semblance
Speciallo The r4aw York Times
gious and secular opposition to Shah MO- of order within a month, he asserted, the
hammed Riza Pablevi served notice Shah would probably be forced out.
today that it intends to step up its war of Oil production reached only 1 1 million
economic attrition in the hope of driving barrels today, a little more than one-sixth
him from power. of the potential. With the central bank in
The leader of Iran's 33 million Shiite only fitful'operation, and shops closed all
Moslems, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, over the country, the economy has been
declared that Monday would be a day paralyzed.
national mourning and called for a
general strike to support the striking Merchants Plan to Open
wo4ers who have crippled Iranian oil A merchant in the Teheran bazaar said
production. The Ayatollah spoke from that ,he and his colleagues, whose busi-
e sile-. at Neauphle-le-Chãteau, outside nesses have been':closed since Nov. 5 ex-
Paris, . cept for one brief-interval, would attempt
He described the. Shah as a “mentally to reopen- tomorrow for tw weeks, but
-disturbed” man who-is. ”on the verge çf would then close.--again An. opposition
hisdownfaIl.” . leader-in .Isfahax .sa d a• sixnilari'tactic.
Hours later, the National Front, the might be tried' there, to placate opposi-
Drincipal political party opposed. o the- tion support s who had complained that
hah, èhdá'rsed day of . mót rning , l e s wnwas tflapje'imPqssible.:
which would come seven.days afCer OV- Relatively little vLolen e was
ernment troops killed a group of demon - in the streets 1r rjian cities tóday b Ir-
strator in Isfahan following an holiday ing the past 24 ‘-hours, the most troubled -
parade, The number killed has not been- :city.appears to have-been hiEáz, a tradi-
determined. The National Front ap- tional cultural center that. is also a 9 refin-
pealed to. everyone to stay indoors on ing center, 560 miles south of the c pital.
Monday to avoid the possibility of re- P eports of deaths there yesterday ranged
ñewed clashes. . - - from. 12 to 24;
A Test of Strength Set Up According to,. the sketchy lnformat
available here, 12 to -14 persons were-shot
The opposition's call br intensified or beaten to death by troops and d mon-
economic warfare set up. a test of strators backing the Shah. Later, one re-
strength with the Government. In a port said, opponents of the Shah ‘killed
speech last night, the Prime Minister, two soldiers and eight members of” their
.Gen. Gholam Riza Azhari, said that oil
families. The soldiers and their families
workers and others who failed to return were said to be adherents of the Bahai
to work would soon face dismissal. faith. - ‘- ___
Appearing on television, Gen. Azhari This morning, the opposition staged a
said that the Government was running procession in which the bodies of those 1
short of money because of the politically killed yesterday were borne through I
motivated strikes, especially those in the downtown streets, according to o e re-
olifields. The str;fe is costing the nation ‘port. Soldiers ordered the procession to I
about $60 million a day in lost foreign ex- diserse, the eoor' said, and when the
change. oov-c'siticn leaders ra used , the froo s
A s ' nior Western di lcn at sakd he . o ned ‘./‘- rge urnhe c rop e -
thought the ‘omic s r W.l -- were hit, the ‘:-e - ac tg-
BP0005 97
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• I Teheran, relatives tried to console a woman at th r w o1 her ..ia '.who,
shesald, was one otseven of her children killed In dash.. with aiien troops.
Foes Schedule Day of Mourning
Monday to Test Shah's Sfrength

          
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          TEHERAN, Iran, Dec. 15--The religious and secular opposition to Shah
          Mohammed Riza Pahlevi served notice today that it intends to step up its war of
          economic attrition in the hope of driving him from power.
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