From Wire Services
Taiwan, Iran—iran 's ruling clergy shut
down 22 opposition newspapers yesterday
and ordered political organizations oppos-
ing the rule of Islam to hand over their
by official reports of a Kurdisl
rebellion in the west, crowds of demon-
strators attended the -Tebran funeral of
revolutionary guards killed in weekend
fighting in the region and called for the
execution of Kurdish leaders.
The Army said new unit were moving
into Kurdistan , where Army posts and the
city of Paveh have been hit by rebel at-
tacks Reports from Zanjan, 180 miles
northwest of Tehran, saId about 70 revolu-
tionary guardsmen heading for ICurdistan
were harassed by armed rebels. -
“The Kurdish Democratic party is the
party of the devil, and it Is In collusion
with the United States and international
Z ionism, ” Ayatollah Ruhollab Khomeini
said in a message broadcast on state
radio.
“it is your religious duty to abstain
from joining or assisting the Kurdish
Democratic party and it is also your reli-
gious duty to support the armed forces of
the country,” he added.
“It is your divine duty to show the hid-
ing places of the K!)? to the authorities.”
In Kermansbah, the nearest major
town .to Paveb,. the commander of the
state police said that at least 500 of the
2,000 rebels who attacked Paveb were
killed or woundet “Tb. mountains near.
the town of Pateb are littered with the
bodies of Kurdish rebels who have been
shot down by government forces,” Col(
RaSan Akhyanl said.
Be saIdSunday night that $ group of
Kurds attackeda state police — about
*7 m Iles south of Paveb, but- eight were
killed and the rest were beaten back, ac-
cording to the Tehran newspaper Kay-
h a L
• Arnong the newspapers silenced on the
ordersof the Tehran revolutionary prose-
cutor, Ayatollah Abmad Anti Qomi, were
tbe official. outlets. of. Tudeb
(Communist) party, the Marxist Piople's
Fedayeen guerrilla coup and the centrist
National Democratic front
A Turkish-language paper, illeged to
have Suited the AyatOllah Khomeini, the
unofficial bead of state, In * cartoon,wu
also shut down.
In a separate order, Ayatollah QomI or-
dered alt political parties and groups,
“especially those whose policies go
against the wishes of the iranian nation,”
to surrender arms taken from military
arsenals during the February revolution.
The reference to the Iranian nation was
a familiar pbrase to describe the over-
whelining majority of the electorate who
voted for an Islamic republic in March's
referendum. The order was apparently
aimed mainly at opposition party militias.
The order did not affect the revolu-
tionary ‘guards and local armed Islamic
committees who control law and order in
the name of Ayatollah Khomeini.
• Forthethirddaylnarow,theradiore-
ported that civilians had volunteered to go
and fight in the Kurdish region, Ayatollah
Khomeini yesterday. ordered a general
military mobilization to crush an alleged
I urdlsh rebellion, which he said was cen-
tered In the city of Sanandaj.
Independent witneeses, who telephoned
reporters from Sanafldaj yesterday, said
the city was peaceful. They said 0 tanks
and 100 revolutIonary guards were at the
airport and that troops held hilltop —
lions, but there was no Indication that
fighting had taken place. /
Iran closes 22 papers, calls in guns
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