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Iran oil chief replaced after ‘treason’ charges

          
          5/27/2011
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          Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Sep 29, 1979; Section: None; Page: 6
          Khomeini: orchestrates attack byclergy
          Iran oil chief replaced
          ? ..ãffei!: ‘treason' charges
          From UPI in Tehran'
          the 7rime Minist&. Mr
          Bazargait, yesterday sacked
          In&s controversial, chief oil
          trentive, Mr Hasstn” Pjazih.
          ard named a new Oil Minister
          to take charge of all oil, gas
          and petrochemical industries.
          Mr Nazih has beed under
          attack front (he clerical leader-
          ship for refusing to pUtge the
          ‘o i industry's .40 ,00 od
          workers—but he was not said
          directly to be dismissed in a
          ‘State ‘radio broadca t, by Air
          Dazargan. :1-.:
          Instead, Mr B azargan
          announced that the n&w Minis-
          (er. Mr All Akbar, MOinfar ,
          will, concurrently - With his
          Cabinet .responsibztity.. for oil,
          take over as chairman and
          managing director, ‘of the oil,
          gas and. petrochemical- com-
          panies' merged in tG rthe new
          Ministry.
          Mr Nazib became chairman
          and managing director of the
          National Iranian Oil Company
          (NLDC) beluue it resumed pro-
          duction arid export of crude oil
          last March 1 after the winter
          strike that led to the Shah's
          downfall. Earlier yesterday Mr
          Nazibfr a French-educated law-
          yer,- ‘ts ok'dered,by4he prose-
          cLLtOr-gefleral, Mr Qoddoust to
          appear in court to answer
          charges st rnmlng from com-
          plaints by the oil company
          workers.
          Ayatollah Khomeini in a sub-
          sequent decree ordered his
          Prime Minister to ensure that
          Mr Nazib appeared in court
          this morning. The Ayatollah
          also warned that be would be
          tried if sufficient evidence was
          available against him. It was
          not clear what specific charges
          were made by Mr Nazib's cr1 -
          I ía among the “numerous
          complaints” said to have been
          flied with the Prosecutor-
          General's office.
          carries the maximum sentence
          of death by firing squad.
          • Liz Thurgood adds; Four
          Iranians were necuted
          yester j iy following some of
          the worst violence since the
          armed forces recaptured the
          last remaining rebel • strong-
          holds three weeks ao In the
          western province of kurdestan.
          It was not known ii (lit Iuur
          executed men were Kurds.
          The executions tuck place
          before daybreak in Mahabad.
          after summary trials supervised
          by Sheikh Khalkhali, the Isla-
          mic judge who has condemned
          nearly 80 Kurds t. death.
          Three of the t cecuted men
          were found guilty of ‘contacts
          with counterrevolutionaries'.
          and the fourth ot ‘moral
          offences !
          Th e Sheikh flew Into Malta-
          bad after more unrest was re .
          ported in ICurdestan. Before
          embarkl3g Ost hs Islamic mis-
          sion. Shei$th Khalkhali issued a
          communique banning all de-
          inonstrations supporting the
          outlawed Kurdish .Den!oeratic
          Pirty ( K i 4L I ] warned that
          onee again, counterrevolu-
          tionaries were stirring up
          trouble to ‘colour Kurdestan
          with the blood of our—ccnrntrfl
          ehildren.'
          originally centred on demands
          for autonomy. But following
          list montb' battles with the
          armed forces, they have since
          been reduced to' angry de-
          mands Out ‘.the baa G I L the
          Kurdish leaders be lifted and
          ttt”ttatSc guardsmen loyal
          10 Ayatollah Khomeini be
          pulled out of the province.
          Senior ICurdisti sources do
          not rule i n st tht possibility of
          new negotiations with the Gov-
          ernment. Firlier attentpte were
          broken off nearly four weeks
          ago, when the, armed forces
          entered Mahabad
          But, say the Kurt , the
          opening of any flew uegotia-
          t ons would .depeád, on a prior
          commitmeztt:.from the Govern-
          ment to meet. a three-point list
          of Kurdisb demands. .In addi '
          tioll I i the withdrawal of all
          non-Kurdish Islamic guardsmen
          from the area, the. Kurds want
          the Government to JeJare a
          ceasefire and lift the ban on
          their leaders.
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          5/27/2011
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          Islamic groups within the oil Acfcordlng to K U r d I a i i
          company have demanded that sources in Tehian , three died
          Mr Nazih be tried as a C0Ufl and 20 were wounderwnen a
          LerrevolutiOoarT. The charge hand grenade was tossed Into a
          1O,000strong protest march in
          Mababad on Wednesday morn-
          ing. The attacker, believed to
          be a member of the Islamic
          guardsmen, was stabbed to
          death by enraged Kurds and
          several guardsmen were also
          taken hOstage.
          The Kurdish version of the
          Inoident differs substantiaII
          from the government's. Accord-
          ing tä the evening paper, Kay .
          han, the grenade was thrown
          into a vehicle carrying Islam ic
          guardsmen arid flung back at
          the marchers before explod ing.
          About 50 Kb ? members were'
          later reported to have been
          arrested.
          the troubles In Kurdeslan
          The Iturds denied Govern-
          nient claims , repe4tl& In
          Thursday's: press :by the gov-
          ernor-geiiersl of Kermanahab,
          that Iraq was ,iqterferlnt in
          Iran 's Internal, stairs by send-
          ing large numUei1s of 3ralned
          guerrillas into Kurdestan to
          ‘undertake large-scale sabota-
          ge 1 t The Kurds were receiving
          u n aid from foreign ,goven-
          nents said a spokesman but
          the Kurdish people of both
          Iraq and Turkey weye supply.
          Ing the Iranian Ktds wttb
          food and medicine.
          • Mahabad itself ‘was reported
          •to be. quiet over the Iranian
          weekend. Rut most stores in
          the bazaat' reniained closed, de-
          spite' tsarn(nfl televised loQally
          that shopkeepers who refused
          to op n their, flails would be
          considered J&ofaedfel'arz (cor
          rupt on earth).
          In a strongly-worded editor-
          ial, The Iranian, a weekly
          magazine, has accused the cen-
          tral authorities of trying “to
          sweep the minorities under the
          prayer rug.”
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