5/27/2011
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Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Aug 24,1979; Section: None; Page: 4
Artillery reinforeèmqnts calIc dup
to. crush Kurdish Insurgents
Iran pounds rebel
tronghoid
in air attack
From Nassir Sbirkhatl
in Saqqez
Heavy fighting was going on
in this Kixrdish stronghold last
n&ght guvtrnmeM bell-
copters pounded rebe l positions
for the second day ru Sng.
The town was in Icurdish
hands but the two sid scrc
figtvtlng It out with canneD and
heavy machineguns around a
government garrison at the
edge of tuw.n,
Army sources outside Saqqez
said yesterday that they were
waiting for artillery reinforce
nets to rout the Kurds from
the town of 4Q000
The rebels he ld.an important
road bridge south of Saqqez
but diplomatic sources said
Iltat a heavy armoured column
was heading south from the
west Azerbalian provinciaL capi-
ta! of Rezaiyeh.
Three helicopters were con-
s antly strafing the town with
niachinegun fire and the shoot-
ing was too heavy for rescue
teams to remove dead bodies
from the streets. As night fell
the helicopters began droppIng
flares every three minutes to
light up their targets. US-bu ilt
Air Force Phantom jets buzzed
the town hut did not open fire.
More tiran 600 Kurds are
believed to have b 11 hilled
since fighting broke cut last
week.
An Army officer sa id yester-
day: “We had no artillery.
That's why the Words are hold-
ing the town. If don't have
artillery we can t get them
out”
Kurdish sources inside the
tOnt i 1 terated claims that
they had killed 80 government
troops In fighting yesterday al-
though the authcrI Vies have
denied the figure.
to withdraw the defensive p0 5 1 .
liens, 19 kin (12 miles) the
town.
Khomeini ordered the Army
and revolutionary guardsmen
to coordinate their offensive
and warned “violators and in-
stigators” in the ranks
that they would be tried
as criminals. Strikes in
the Armed Fortes were
banned, he said, and “in
case of suspected conspiracy”
the offenders would be tried
by summary courts, The impit-
cation was that the guilty
could face the death sentence
for disobedience.
Iranian newspaper accounts
Sl imy fighting erupted in the
A UNITED STATES spokes-
man said yesterday that be
had no information about a
reported invitation to Mr
Andrew Young to visit Iran.
The Iranian invitation -war
dIsclo,rd I, , a Foreign Minis-
try spokesman in Tehran. No
date was announced for the
proposed visit
—
western town of Paveh last
week have added up to 600
killed, nearly 200 of them in
fighting outside Paveh In the
town of Divan Darreh, Saqq
and Mahabd.
In a warning to journalists
broadcast on Wednesday night
and repeated yesterday, Kho-
meini said “I apt announcing
my support for the law and
order forces, the Army gen-
darnierie, police and the revo-
lutionary guards, and I do not
permit that the pen should be
used or steps should be taken
to weaken them Violators will
be considered criminals and in
case of the feeling of a cons-
piracy (they) wilt be tried in a
revolutionary court.” - - - -
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Among the weapons in Khomeninl urged the Kurds
the hands of the Insnrgents are i n his message to leave the
Sovlet•ma'de Kwlas'hn Imv auto traitors and join the nation
ma4le rifles M id RPG .7 roeket. and Islam ” He said that ICurds
launehers. They have alsGIrwho surrendered with their
caputure two 106mm rec il1ess weapons would be pardotied.
rifles from government forces
The rebels said that the
Army was within six miles
of here last night but had I ter
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