Iran Expels 5 More Foreign Journalists and Executes 18 Kurdish Revolutionaries

          
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          TEERAN Iran (A8 The Islamic
          regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah
          Khomaini widened its crackdown on
          international coverage of Iranian pol
          IBm Tuesday by ordering Ii e more
          foreign correspondents to leave
          bringing 10 11 the number expelled
          this month
          The expulsions followed the closing
          of 22 newspapers and magazines,
          using a new censorship law to restrict
          domestic reporting.
          Islamic revolutionary tribunals ex
          ecuted 18 Kurdi h rebels in Kurthstan
          earlier in the day Eleven others wore
          executed Saturday as a result of the
          latest uprising by Kurds seeking po
          litical autonomy in western Iran
          All Behzadnia, head of the foreign
          presa sect on in the Ministry of Na-
          tonal Guidance, gave no reason why
          correspondents of the Financial
          Times of c ondon, I. e lirpish Thoad-
          ‘sating Corp., L'Express of Paris and
          two imide tified West Ge man publi-
          cations had been ordered out of the
          country.
          The correspondents were ordered
          to leave af er Khomaint directed
          government officials to act with re-
          newed revolutionary spirit. Previous
          y t e egime expelLed reporters for
          the New York Times and the Los An
          geles Times and a four-member
          NBC TV crew, for using material it
          said was unfavorable to the revolu
          tion
          Those expe led Tuesday ncluded
          Towyn Mason of the BBC Andrew
          Whitley of the Financial Times and
          Jerome Dousrltn of ‘ cpress
          Tehran s slamic prosecutor or-
          dered the newspaper Mardum, organ
          of the Communist Tudeh Party, other
          leftist periodicals and several satirical
          newspapers to stop printing, bringing
          to 44 the nunber of publications
          closed under a press law that took ef-
          fec Aug. 11, said Mehdi Momken
          deputy minister of national guidance.
          The stringent code bans papers that
          do not follow an Islamic line and are
          critical of the nation's re gious lead-
          era
          Meanwhile the official Pars news
          agency reported that firing squads
          executed 18 Kurds convicted by revo
          lutionary tribunals of “corruption on
          u t fight g fIM d h
          prophet.”
          Thirteen of the Kurds were shot in
          Paveh on the spot where government
          troops died last week fighting the re
          bellion, the agency reported, and five
          were taken to the city of Kermanshah
          for trial and execution
          The Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali
          head of the nation's Islamic courts,
          conducted the tribunals after being
          send to Paveh by Khomaini He has
          boasted publicly of sending hundreds
          of “counterrevolutionaries” to their
          deaths since the Islamic autl 'orsties
          replaced the regime of Shah Mo-
          hammed Reza Pablavi in February
          Iran's 4 million Kurds are members
          of tne Sunni slainic sect, wntle most
          Iranians are Slua Moslems who con
          aider Khomasni their spiritual leader.
          Kurds in neighboring Iraq are also re-
          belling seeking autonomy from the
          Arab majority there.
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