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Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Aug 21,1979; Section: None; Page: 7
Iran's leaders in
move to crush H
opposition press.
and parties
From Rester
in Tehran
Iran's rulers yesterday shut
dowir —22 opposition news
papers , and ordered political
orgaulsalions which oppose
Islamic rule to hand over their
guns.
Spurred by reports of a Kur
dish rebellion in the W t7
trewdsof demonstrators
attended the Tehran funeral of
Revolutionary Guards killed in
weekend fighting in the region
and called for the execution of
Kurdish leaders.
Among the papers tilenced
on the orders of the Tehran
revoluUonary prosecutor, An '
tollab Abmad .Azari Qomi,
were the official organs of the
‘tudeh (Communist) Party, the
Marxist People's Fedayeen
guerrilla group, and the Cc i i-
Inst Nation-al Democratic
Front.
A Turkish-lan;uage paper,
alleged to have insulted Aya
tolZah Khomeini in a cartoon,
was also shut down.
A delegation of the Mujahi-
deen Khalq National Movement
yesterday left for Qom, for
talks with Ayatollah Khomeini
on saving theIr Tehran head-
quarters from takeover by the
Government. The Mujahideen,
were served notice to surrender
their weapons and building to
the prosecutor.
In a separate order, Ayatol-
lah Qoml ordered all political
parties and groups, “especially
those whose politics go against
the wishes of the Iranian
nation,” to surrender
taken from military arsenals
during the February revolu-
tion.
The reference to the
“1 ran ian nation,” was a
f,.nsflln to describe the
overwhelming majority of the
electorate who voted for an
Islamic Republic in last
March's referendimi, and the
order was apparenUy directed
principally at opposition party
militias.
In a message to the Kurdish
people broadcast on State ...Jl&
yesterday Ayatollah Khomeini
c a I I e d on the civilian
population to cooperate with
Government forces to hunt
down members of the Kurdish
Democratic Party. — -
State radio broadeast the
shouts of an emotional crowd
at the funeral, who called for
the execution of Mr Quassem-
Iou and of the Kurdish spiri-
tual leader Sholhh Czzedhn
Hosseint
On Sunday, Ayatollah Kho-
meini ordered military mobllls
ation to crush an alIeg d
Kurdish rebellion, which ire
centredon the city of
Sanandaj.
Witnesses In Sananda) yes
terday, said the city was peace-
ful. They said six tanks and
some 100 Revolutionary Guards
were stationed at the airport,
and troops commanded hllitop
positions, but there was no in
dicatlon fighting had taken
place.
Sources close to the pro-
Soviet Tudeh Party said its
leadership was meeUn to dis-
cuss the future of its daily
paper Mardom and might de-
cide to go underground.
Sources said the party's
offices in Isfahan, Buthire,
Sari, and ‘Yabris had been ran
sacked over the weekend.
Pars news agency yesterday
said that crowds In Isfaha'n
had attacked the International
Press office In the city, and
had destroyed all English-lan-
guage books and foreign news
papers.
Sources said that Revolu-
tionary Guards yesterday broke
Into the offices of the National
Democratic Front, and into the
home of its leader, Hedayatol .
lah Matins Daftarl. The offices
were sealed at the weekend
after art arrest warrant was
Issued for the NDF leader,
Sheiklt Ezzethn Rossein4,
and Mr Qassemlou, are In the
I{urdisb western border region.
TIw State Radio yesterday
said the Region was peaceful,
and under Army control. No
independent reports on the
situation could be obtained.
Ayatollah Hussein All Month.
zen was chosen president of
the assembly of e cperLs which
will write a new Iranian Con-
stitution, the 3t4 mews
agency Pars reported yester
day.
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Iteferriag to the l C D ? as the UPY adds from Lausanne: A
party of Satan. Ayatollah Kho• group of exiled Kurds appealed
inein i said: “It is your dwine to the UN Secretary-General
duty to show the hiding places yesterday to intervene with the
of (he XDP to the authorities.° jjr .nj n Government and the
Be called for the arrest of the major powers to nrevant the
KDP leadership, which is mass slaughter of Kurds. The
headed by Abdulrahaznan Quas- Kurdist.an Liberty aS Pro.
aernlou. gross Party, formed In April
this year by exiles, said The
genera] mobilisatlon is “practi-
cally an invitation to genocide.”
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