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August 28, 1979
Section: News
Iraqi officers captured Iran's rulers agree to a ceasefire, Kurdish leader says
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (Reuter) - Iran's ruling Moslem religious leaders have agreed to proclaim a ceasefire
today on all fronts in the Kurdish revolt, a spokesman for Kurdish negotiators said yesterday.
The announcement, for which there was no official Government confirmation, came as the official Pars news
agency reported that two Iraqi military officers had been captured in the recent fighting in Paveh and sent to
Tehran for questioning.
It was the first suggestion that any Iraqi soldiers might be involved in the fighting. Iranian officials have
charged that civilian Kurds from across the Iraqi border might be involved in the fight for autonomy.
The Kurdish spokesman, Rahim Seif Ghazi, said the ceasefire agreement was reached after talks yesterday with
Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, Tehran's spiritual leader.
He said the ayatollah had promised that a ceasefire order would be broadcast by the state radio by this morning
and that formal negotiations for peace would begin.
A five-man delegation from the rebel capital of Mahabad has been negotiating mainly with Iran's religious lead-
ership in Tehran, but three Government ministers have been involved in the talks.
Two trusted aides of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini went to the holy city of Qum, 95 miles south of here, earlier
yesterday to convey the Kurdish proposals to Iran's unofficial head of state.
Mr. Ghazi said the Kurdish negotiating team had been invited to attend a meeting of Iran's council of constitu-
tional experts today from which the leader of the banned Kurdish Democratic Party was expelled earlier this
month.
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The talks with tile Goverrni ent were headed by Abdul Rahman Abbasi, head of Mahabad's Islamic Revolution-
ary Council. The five-man delegation also included the governor of the rebel city, Hassan Babataheri.
The five-man Government team included deputy Premier Mostafa Ali Chamran, who was at the centre of fight-
ing 10 days ago in the Turkish border area, and the powerful Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti.
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(iIR40) Iraq (iIR87) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH MAHMOUD TALEGHANL AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMAINL
ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL MAHABAD) (Abdul Rahman Abbasi Ali Chamraw Ghazi Hassan
Babataheri Kurdish Mohammed Beheshti Rahim Seif Ghazi)
Word Count: 399
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August 27, 1979
Section: News
Kurds vow to continue fight Khomaini soldiers clean up after siege
Saqquez IRAN
Saqquez IRAN - - From The Associated Press
and Reuter News Agency
SAQQEZ - Islamic Government forces mopped up in this shell-shattered
town in western Iran yesterday after smashing a four-day siege by I curdish
rebels. But the rebels vowed to continue their fight for autonomy and
said both sides were preparing for a major battle at the Kurds'
stronghold of Mahabad.
In Tehran, assassins killed two supporters of the Islamic Government's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini,
and wounded a third.
The battle for Saqqez, a town in western Iran near the Iraqi border, ended after Government troops, flown in by giant
Chinook helicopters, reinforced their besieged garrison on Saturday. They fought a blistering barrage with heavy
weaponry to overpower the Kurdish insurgents.
Yesterday, as Government troops searched house-to-house for insurgents, the Kurds called their pullout a “tactical re-
treat.” One Kurdish source said most of the rebel force of fewer than 500 had escaped. The Government garrison had
about 700 men.
Kurdish sources said they now expect a Government strike on Mahabad, a heavily fortified city of more than 100,000
about 60 miles northwest of Saqqez.
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They said a Government ani ored column of at least 65 tanks, scores of armored personnel carriers and long-range artil-
lerv was outside tile farming village of Solduz, about 20 miles south of Mahabad, awaiting orders.
The insurgents said Mahabad would not be intimidated.
‘We have anti-aircraft weapons, 105mm howitzers, 106mm recoilless rifles, mortars and 17 tanks ready for action, one
Kurdish leader said.
He also said the Kurds have thousands of armed fighters, all highly trained, to tackle any situation.”
“If they use helicopters to strafe and rocket us as they did at Saqqez, they are going to find it rough. Now we have the
weapons to knock them out of the sky.”
One of the major problems facing the rebels is a shortage of supplies, particularly gasoline.
Kurdish Democratic Part sources said food, medicine and gas were running out in all guerrilla-held towns. Baneh has
only three to four days of gas supplies left and Sardasht has none.
Mahabad, where Abdul Rahman Qassemlou, secretary of the banned KDP's central committee, maintains his headquar-
ters, was reported quiet yesterday.
On Saturday, Mr. Qassemlou said the Kurds would wage all-out war” and make Kurdistan the graveyard of the reac-
tionary regime.
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Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (ABDUL RAHMAN QASSEMLOU ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT KDP KURDISH KURDISH
DEMOCRATIC PARTY SAQQEZ ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT) (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini Baneh Iram Kurds
Qassemlow Saqquez IRAN)
Word Count: 481
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August 25, 1979
Section: News
Iranian Army victory after three-day battle Kurds offer peace terms as stronghold falls
Mahabad IRAN
Mahabad IRAN -- MAHABAD (Reuter) - Iranian Government troops, fighting Kurdish guerrillas on two
fronts in Kurdistan province, yesterday recaptnred the rebel stronghold of Saqqez after a three-day battle, Ir-
an 's official Pars news agency reported.
Meanwhile, the Kurds' leader yesterday announced conditions for negotiations with the revolutionary Govern-
ment; and a Tehran religious leader cursed the banned Kurdish Democratic Party.
The commander of the 28th infantry division based in Sanandaj, the Kurdistan capital, was quoted as saying
Saqqez fell to a relief column. There was no independent confirmation of the report as all lines to the hill town
were cut.
The Pars report indicated the column first relieved a stranded army garrison on the edge of Saqqez which had
been under heavy mortar and light artillery fire from the guerrillas.
Helicopter gunships pounded the town - in northwestern Iran, about 50 miles from the Iraqi border - with rock-
ets and machine gun fire throughout the day, according to witnesses.
Kurdish guerrillas still hold the northern Kurdistan stronghold of Mahabad although a battle between army
tanks and guerrillas using rockets and artillery was reported to be raging 20 miles outside the town yesterday.
Earlier, KDP leader Abdulrahman Qassemlou told reporters in Mahabad that the Kurds were prepared to negoti-
ate with the central Government if four conditions were met.
Mr. Qassemlou, dressed in traditional baggy trousers and battledress top with a pistol on his hip, said the condi-
tions were: The suspension of further troop reinforcements to the Kurdish region. The release of political pris-
oners. The freeing of all Kurdish hostages.
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An end to executions of Kurds alleged to have taken part in the fighting.
The Kurdish leader said if these conditions were not met his rebels would continue fighting.
In Mahabad, the guerrillas were armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov, American M- 16 and Czechoslovak-made
Berno automatic rifles.
The army had units at Miandowab, northeast of Mahabad, but Kurds held the road between the two towns and
had built sandbag emplacements along some stretches.
Outside Mahabad, the Kurds said, the Government forces used three planes and several helicopters against
Kurdish positions and one helicopter had been shot down. This could not be confirmed.
In Tehran in a speech to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the normally moderate religious
leader, Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, cursed the KDP and branded its members as Communists.
Using a Persian curse, he said: “Dust on their heads. The name of the KDP brings back very bad memories.”
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Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (IRANIAN ARMY; KALASHNIKOV; KDP; KURDS; RAMADAN) (Abdulrahman
Qassemlou; Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani; Iran; Kurdish; Kurdish Democratic Party; Mahabad; Mahabad IR-
AN; Qassemlou)
Word Count: 524
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8/24/79 GLOBEMAIL 11 Page 1
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August 24, 1979
Section: News
Arab militants demand return of spiritual head 25 Iranian troops die as Kurd leader issues battle call
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN -- TEHRAN (AP) - Twenty-five Iranian Government soldiers died yesterday in an ambush by
autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels in Kurdistan province, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported. The
leader of the province's four million Kurds called for a battle to avert a new dictatorship.
In Khuzestan province, the country's major oil-producing area to the south, ethnic Arab militants threatened re-
newed violence if their spiritual leader is not allowed to return to the province by tomorrow, Pars said.
In a brief message distributed by Kurdish sources here, Sheik Ezzedin Hossein called on Iranians to defend the
Kurds because it is becoming clear now the Government is leading the country to a new dictatorship, and
warned them not to believe the poisonous lies which are being spread under the noble name of religion.
He said the Kurds will not stop fighting for one moment until Kurdish aspirations are met within a united Iran.
For centuries, the large Kurdish population in northwestern Iran has fought for independence, but they now say
they want autonomy within Iran.
Units of the 28th Iranian army division were ambushed near the town of Saqez early yesterday and the division
commander, 24 troops and 15 Kurds were killed and at least 15 troops were wounded, Pars said.
Kurdish sources said the ambush followed the anny unit's mortar attack on the town, which apparently incited
the population against them. The sources said the soldiers called on troops in nearby Bucan for help, but were
ignored. The Kurds contend Ayatollah Khomaini's revolutionary guards went to the Bucan barracks and arres-
ted its commander for not moving his troops out in support of the beleagured army units.
Reporters in Kurdistan said that troops and revolutionary guards entered the town of Kamyaran, south of the re-
gion's chief city, Sanandaj, disarmed the population and declared martial law. The town was dead and no traffic
was permitted to pass through for five hours, one reporter said.
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While attempts were under way to control the Kurds, ethnic Arabs in Khuzestan warned that if their spiritual
leader is not permitted to return home by tomorrow, we will react strongly.
Sheik Shobeir Khaqani was taken away by Government forces in July after the minority Arabs clashed with re-
volutionary guards in the port city of Khoramshahr. He was taken to the holy city of Qom for safekeeping.
Meanwhile, U.S. Defence Department officials said yesterday the Carter Administration was engaged in talks
with the Iranian Government over the resumption of large-scale shipments of U.S. arms.
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Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (ARAB; KURDISH; KURDS; SHEIK EZZEDIN HOSSEIN; SHEIK SHOBEIR
KHAQANI; US DEFENCE DEPARTMENT) (Ayatollah Khomaini; Carter; Meanwhile; Pars; Sanandaj)
Word Count: 517
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August 23, 1979
Section: News
Khomaini woos rebel Kurds with promise of $75 million
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN -- From Reuter News Agency
and The Associated Press
TEHRAN - Iran's unofficial head of state, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini,
offered the country's rebellious I curdish minority the equivalent of
$75-million yesterday, but warned their rebel leaders they would be
punished harshly if they did not accept the path of Islam.
In a statement broadcast by the state radio, the 79-year-old religious leader said he had ordered the chairman of the Na-
tional Iranian Oil Company, Hassan Nazih, to put a day's oil revenue at the disposal of the Western province of Kur-
distan within the next week.
The first four points of the eight-point statement covered discipline in the armed forces, of which Ayatollah Khomaini
declared himself the supreme commander last week.
Hinting at discontent among the armed forces at being ordered to put down the Kurdish rebellion, he said special courts
would judge soldiers who failed to obey orders or who took part in strikes.
Ayatollah Khomaini said: I tell the Kurds that all the Iranian masses are the same. There is no difference between the
masses.
Meanwhile, Kurdish rebels deployed tanks and anti-aircraft batteries in their mountain stronghold of Mahabad yesterday
and the city was full of armed men, witnesses reported.
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They quoted a senior member of the banned Kurdish Democratic Party as saying the city, about 40 miles from the Iraq
border, could resist the army but not the air force.
Rebel leaders accused the Islamic regime of employing tactics reminiscent of deposed shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi so
it could annihilate the Kurdish masses in Iran.
The only difference (in the two governments) is that during the Pahlavi regime they did not kill innocent people so ruth-
lessly, said Karim Hesami, an official of the KDP.
Heaviest fighting yesterday was near the provincial capital of Sanandaj where 60 Kurds and 10 revolutionary guards
were killed, state radio said.
Kurdish sources said trailers carrying anti4ank missile launchers were spotted Tuesday in a large armored column man-
oeuvring in the region of Rezaiyeh, north of Mahabad.
Sources in Mahabad said Kurdish Democratic Party leader Abdulrahman Qassemlou left the city for an undisclosed des-
tination. He is being sought by the Iranian authorities and has been described by state radio as guilty of leading a Kurd-
ish rebellion.
So far, Islamic authorities have executed 29 Kurds alleged to have taken part in the rebellion.
Among those executed were nine Kurds who faced a firing squad Tuesday in the border town of Paveh.
The blindfolded men in Kurdish dress were lined up against the wall of Paveh hospital. Their necks were tied to the bars
of the hospital windows by lengths of cord. The firing squad knelt a few yards away across a rubble-strewn yard.
In Tehran, warrants were out for the arrest of the leader of the centrist National Democratic Front, Hedayatollah Matine-
Daftari, and the editor of the banned leftist daily Peygham Emruz, Reza Marzban.
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(1P073))
REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WE54); Iran (11R40); Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH KHOMAINI; AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMAINI; IRANIAN; ISLAMIC;
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KDP KHOMAINL KURDISH KURDISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAHABAD NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
FRONT NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL CO) (Abdulrahman Qassem1ou Hassan Nazih Heaviest Hedavatollah Matine-
Daftari Hinting Karim Hesami Mohammed Reza Pa1ilavi Peygham Emniz Reza Marzban)
Word Count: 591
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August 22, 1979
Section: News
18 Kurdish rebels executed Iran orders 3 Western reporters out
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From Reuter News Agency
and The Associated Press
TEHRAN - The Iranian authorities expelled three Western correspondents
yesterday after a call from religious leader and unofficial head of state
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini to be more revolutionary.
Two of the journalists are British - Towyn Mason of the British Broadcasting Corporation and Andrew Whitley, resident
correspondent of the London Financial Times.
The third was Frenchman Jerome Dumoulin of the Paris magazine l'Express who received the expulsion order less than
48 hours after arriving in Iran.
All three were told to leave as soon as possible in separate meetings yesterday with Ali Belizadnia, foreign press director
of the Ministry of National Guidance.
Mr. Mason was told the authorities objected to the general tone of BBC broadcasts about Iran. Mr. Dumoulin was criti-
cized for an article about life after the revolution. Mr. Whitley, who had been in Iran for two years, was ordered out
without explanation.
Six other Western journalists, all from U.S. news organizationas, have been expelled from Iran since the overthrow of
the shah.
Mr. Mason asked Mr. Behzadnia for specific criticisms of BBC coverage and said the press director replied: “We don't
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have to tell the BBC what they already know.”
Mr. Behzadnia told Mr. Mason the expulsions were a revolutionary decision which overruled any legislation already in
force, a reference to restrictions on the foreign press issued last week.
The authorities also announced yesterday they intended to expel two West German newsmen who went to cover events in
Kurdistan without obtaining credentials. They had been ordered back to Tehran and would then be expelled.
Previously, the Government had expelled reporters from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and an NBC tele-
vision crew.
The Teheran Islamic revolutionary prosecutor, Ayatollah Ahmad Azari Qomi, announced yesterday that 26 newspapers
and magazines have so far been closed down by the authorities.
In the latest move against leftwing political parties, the authorities last night sealed the offices of the pro-Soviet Tudeh
(Communist) Party. The whereabouts of its leadership were unknown.
In the Kurdish border town of Paveh, scene of bloody fighting between rebels and revolutionary guards during the
weekend, an Islamic court presided over by Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali sentenced 13 insurgents to death on charges of
waging war on God and His representatives.
The Islamic Republic newspaper reported five other rebels went before the firing squad in the nearby city of Kerman-
shah.
Sources in the Kurdish stronghold of Mahabad reported clashes between Kurdish forces and revolutionary guards.
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Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (BBC; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP; KURDISH; MAHABAD; MINISTRY OF NATION-
AL GUIDANCE; TEHERAN ISLAMIC (THE)) (Ali Behzadnia; Andrew Whitley; Ayatollah; Ayatollah Ruhollah; Azari
Qomi; Behzadnia; Dumoulin; Frenchman Jerome Dumoulin; Mason; Sources; Western; Whitley)
Word Count: 538
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August 21, 1979
Section: News
Press clampdown in Iran shnts 22 opposition papers
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From Reuter News Agency
and The Associated Press
TEHRAN - Iran's revolutionary clergy shut down 22 opposition newspapers
yesterday and ordered political organizations opposing the rule of Islam
to hand over their guns.
Meanwhile, Government troops streamed into Kurdistan to bolster undermanned garrisons as the Kurdish rebellion
showed signs of spreading to West Azerbaijan province. Sporadic attacks were reported in several Kurdistan towns dur-
ing the weekend.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini, the unofficial head of state, has ordered a general military mobilization to crnsh the
rebels. He said the rebellion was centred on the city of Sanandaj, but reports from there said the city was quiet.
Among the newspapers silenced on the orders of the Tehran revolutionary prosecutor, Ayatollah Ahmad Azari Qomi,
were the official outlets of the Tudeh (Communist) Party, the Marxist People's Fedayeen guerrilla group and the centrist
National Democratic Front.
A Turkish-language paper, alleged to have insulted Ayatollah Khomaini in a cartoon, also was shut down.
In a separate order, Ayatollah Qomi ordered all 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 Febrnary revolution.
In a message to the Kurdish people broadcast on state radio yesterday, Ayatollah Khomaini called on the civilian popu-
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lation to co-operate with Government forces to hunt down members of the Kurdish Democratic Party.
Referring to tile KDP as the party of Satan, Ayatollah Khomaini said: ‘It is your divine duty to show the hiding places of
the KDP to the authorities.
He called for the arrest of the KDP leadership, headed by Abdulrahaman Qassemloo, whom he branded as corrupt.
Independent witnesses, who telephoned from Sanandaj yesterday, said the city was peaceful. They said six tanks and
about 100 Revolutionary Guards were at the airport and troops held hill-top positions but there was no indication fighting
had taken place.
Infoni ed sources in the town of Paveh on the Iraqi border - recaptured from the rebels by Government forces on Sat-
urday - said bodies of 36 Revolutionary Guards still were waiting to be flown out by military helicopters. One body was
headless but the sources said it was impossible to say whether the guard had been beheaded.
Infoni ed sources said Revolutionary Guards yesterday broke into the offices of the National Democratic Front and into
the home of its leader, Hedavatollah Matine Daftari.
An arrest warrant was issued for the NDF leader after complaints by victims of a street riot here eight days ago that he
was responsible for the violence, which pitted NDF supporters demonstrating in favor of press freedom against Islamic
militants armed with rocks and clubs.
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REGION: (Middle East (iMI23) Gulf States (iGU47) Western Asia (iWE54) Iran (iIR40) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (ISLAMIC KDP KURDISH KURDISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
FRONT NDF) (Abdulrahaman Qassemloo Avatollah Ayatollah Khomaini Ayatollah Qomi Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho-
maini Azari Qomi Heda atollah Matine Daftari Infoni ed Khomaini Revolutionary Guards Sporadic)
Word Count: 562
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August 20, 1979
Section: News
Khomaini orders Kurds' revolt crushed
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (Reuter) - Iranian Government forces converged on the Kurdistan capital of San-
andaj yesterday alter Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini ordered a general mobilization to crush what he called a
Kurdish rebellion there.
The 79-year-old unofficial head of state said in a message over the state radio that the arsenal of the 28th In-
fantry Division was about to fall into the hands of autonomy-seeking Kurds who had surrounded the Sanandaj
garrison.
But the governor-general of Kurdistan, Mohammed Rashid Shakiba, strongly denied that the Sanandaj garrison
was surrounded or that there had been any fighting in the city.
In a telephone call from Sanandaj, he said: “I don't know who told Ayatollah Khomaini this. It is a total lie.
There is no unrest here.
“Both the town and the barracks arc peaceful and the local commander has not asked for any reinforcements.”
The official Pars news agency said a number of unidentified counter-revolutionaries, who were said to be leftists
and members of the now-banned Kurdish Democratic Party, had attacked a column of two tanks and three ar-
mored personnel carriers in Sanandaj and captured rocket-launchers, mortars, artillery and anti-tank weapons.
The thrust on the western border province of Kurdistan, and particularly Sanandaj, followed Government re-
capture on Saturday of the town of Paveh on the Iraqi border alter several days of fighting against Kurdish
guerrillas.
The ayatollah said last night that he would like to turn Iran into a one-party state.
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We want to make it like the Rastakhiz (Resurrection Party), he said in a reference to the deposed shah's official
party.
We will keep jnst one party or a conple of good ones and the rest will be banned, the ayatollah said.
Eleven Kurds captnred when Government forces retook Paveh on Saturday were executed at dawn yesterday in
the nearby town of Kermanshah for waging war on God and his representatives.
Earlier, the ayatollah carried out his threat to ban the KDP, which he blamed for the violence in Paveh. The elec-
tion of KDP secretary-general Abdul Rahaman Qassemloo earlier this month was declared null and void by Ir-
an 's shadowy Council of the Revolution.
The U.S. consulate in Tehran was attacked late on Friday night with what appeared to be rifle-fired grenades,
U.S. officials said on Saturday. No one was hurt.
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Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (28TH INFANTRY DIVISION; ELEVEN KURDS; KDP; KURDS) (Abdul Rahaman
Qassemloo; Ayatollah Khomaini; Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini; Khomaini; Mohammed Rashid Shakiba)
Word Count: 467
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August 18, 1979
Section: News
Kurds beheaded 18 in hospital takeover, beseiged Iranians say
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN -- TEHRAN (Reuter) - The Iranian authorities accused Kurdish rebels yesterday of beheading
18 people in the embattled border town of Paveh, state television said.
A spokesman for the premier's office said the bodies of the 18 and those of 22 other people had been airlifted
out to the city of Kermanshah.
He said the 18 were beheaded at Paveh Hospital after it was taken by Kurdish rebels earlier yesterday. A num-
ber of doctors and nurses died in the attack.
The state television said Deputy Premier Mostafa Ali Chamran and a force of Islamic revolutionary guards were
besieged in the Paveh army barracks with Government units. It quoted him as saying he would hold out to the
last.
The broadcast said Paveh was likely to fall to the rebels at any time.
Mr. Chamran went to the town by helicopter earlier yesterday with fresh ammunition for the besieged troops.
The radio described the situation in Paveh, which has seen two days of fierce fighting, as very tense. It alleged
that pro-shah forces led by Gen. Hosseinali Palisban were aiding the rebels and accused Iran's Kurdish Demo-
cratic Party of spearheading the revolt.
Fighting is believed to have broken out after local Kurds protested over non-Ku rdish revolutionary guards be-
ing dispatched to the town.
Premier Mehdi Bazargan's spokesman said those killed in Paveh included revolutionary guards.
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The official Pars news agency earlier reported that an Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom had crashed near the
town; a second had been hit by bullets.
The state radio said Kurdish forces led by the Iraqi Kurdish leader, Jalal Talebani, were fighting on the rebel
side in Paveh.
Defence Minister Taqi Riahi said army and militia reinforcements were being rushed to Paveh. He told reporters
that the situation in the rest of the Kurdish region was quiet and cast doubt on the radio report that Gen. Palis-
ban's forces or guerrillas from the Talebani clan were involved in the fighting.
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REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WE54); Iran (11R40); Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AIR FORCE; IRAQI KURDISH; KURDISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY; PAVEH; PAVEH
HOSPITAL; PREMIER MEHDI BAZARGAN) (Ali Chamran; Chamran; Defence; Hosseinali Palisban; Jalal
Talebani; Kurdish; Kurds; Palisban; Taqi Riahi)
Word Count: 388
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August 17, 1979
Section: News
Khomaini warns leftist dissidents Kurds reported to have seized town
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (AP) - Rebellious Kurds overran Government forces in the western Iranian town of
Paveh yesterday after two days of heavy fighting in which at least 13 people were killed and 50 others were
wounded, news reports said.
The Government did not confirm the fall of the town in the restive Kurdistan region, about 300 miles northwest
of here, but said troop reinforcements had been unable to reach beleaguered revolutionary guards there.
The latest flareup among Kurdistan's four million Kurds - seeking autonomy for the region bordering Turkey
and Iraq - was considered a major setback for the Islamic regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini.
Appeals for help arrived here from Paveh's Government defenders on Wednesday night as the situation became
serious, the official Pars news agency reported. Deputy premier Mostafa Chamran accused the leftist-oriented
Kurdish Democratic Party and affiliated political groups of laying siege to the town.
The press reports confirmed earlier information from Kurdish sources that the town had fallen to the insurgent
forces early yesterday.
The fighting came amid incidents of opposition to the revolutionary Government, which overthrew the shah's re-
gime last Febrnary.
This week, Islamic revolutionary guards loyal to Ayatollah Khomaini occupied the Tehran offices of the
People's Fedayeen, a leftist guerrilla group. The incident sparked fighting between right-wing Moslems and the
Fedayeens and their leftist allies.
Other disputes centred on the Iranian news media after the Government announced sweeping press restrictions.
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In a broadcast yesterday, Ayatollah Khomaini told Iranian leftists: Unless you stop your follies, I shall give tile
final word.
Observers interpreted the remark as a threat to unleash Islamic militants against leftists protesting against re-
strictions on the press and pushing for a government based on democratic principles.
‘No one should think that the corrupt clashes (by) the American-inspired leftists are capable of doing anything
in Iran,” Ayatollah Khomaini said. The Iranian nation is tired of these follies and is not frightened by them.”
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(1G080))
REGION: (Middle East (iMI23) Gulf States (iGU47) Western Asia (iWE54) Iran (iIR40) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH KHOMAINL AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMAINL KHOMAINL
KURDISH KURDISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY KURDISTAN) (Appeals Deputy Fedaeens Mostafa Cham-
raw Observers)
Word Count: 427
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July 25, 1979
Section: Editorial
Stupefied
From the Iranian-Turkish border came reports that 500 people, most of them civilians, had been killed in a
clash between Iranian troops and Kurdish militants. From the region of the Iranian-Iraqi border came fresh
bulletins on the continuing sabotage by Arab militants of oil pipelines.
From Tehran came the usual sound of gunfire. But in the holy city of Qum such minor annoyances, the little
troubles and irritants of daily life in the Islamic Republic, were not allowed to distract the attention of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomaini from matters of real weight and substance:
Music, he warned, should not be broadcast over the radio and television. Music is something that everybody is
attracted to naturally, but it takes them out of reality to a futile and lowly livelihood. Like opium, music also stu-
pefies persons listening to it and makes their brain inactive and frivolous.
If he were talking about disco he might have a point, if hardly an original one. But this anathema appears to be
total. Most totalitarian rulers or philosophers, from Plato to Leonid Brezhnev, have damned one sort of music or
another as subversive or decadent. But the Ayatollah, the man who turned all Iran into a kangaroo court over
which he rules as chief kangaroo, is the first to banish music altogether. Perhaps it interferes with his enjoyment
of the sound of the firing squads.
Iran 's economy is a wreck. Its people are hungry, frustrated and terrified. A token government passes laws that
nobody heeds, and shadowy bands of killers wield the power to annihilate anyone who dares to listen skeptically
to the latest gibberish pronounced by Ayatollah Khomaini.
Revolutions, in this century, have given power to tyrants, to monsters, to sadists, to mediocrities, even to a geni-
us or two. Iran's revolution has given power, for the time being, to a pious fraud, a man without the least trace
of political intelligence or, for that matter, any visible hint of intelligence of any sort. His brain may not be
frivolous in the ordinary sense - although it seems the height of frivolity to sit solemnly dictating the designs of
bathing suits in a country in ruins. But it clearly is inactive.
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REGION: (Middle East (iMI23) Gulf States (iGU47) Western Asia (iWE54) Iran (iIR40) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH AYATOLLAH KHOMAINL AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHO-
MAINI) (Kurdish Leonid Brezhnev)
Word Count: 433
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July 25, 1979
Section: News
Kurds battle Khomaini forces Music on Iran airwaves despite ban
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (AP) - Iranian radio played Persian folk music, classical pieces and themes of the
country's revolution yesterday, ignoring a call by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini for a ban on music, which he
described as an opiate that makes the brain inactive.
The director of the state radio said the ban “would apply only to the holy month of Ramadan, which starts on
Thursday.”
“For periods starting at the end of Ramadan, an appropriate decision will be made later on,” said director Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh, apparently avoiding a direct clash with Ayatollah Khomaini, the Iran's austere 79-year-old reli-
gious leader.
In other developments yesterday:
- Rebellious Kurdish forces captured a state police headquarters near the town of Khoy in northwestern Iran as
fighting was reported elsewhere in the region between Kurds and Government forces.
- Two men were arrested, tried and executed within hours of being caught while trying to set off a bomb near
pipelines leading to the world's largest oil processing plant. Saboteurs believed to be ethnic Arabs wanting
autonomy damaged pipelines in the Persian Gulf region earlier this month.
Ayatollah Khomaini's launched his attack on music in an address Monday to employees of a summer radio sta-
tion in the holy city of Qom.
“Music should not be played over radio and television. Like opium, music also stupefies persons listening to it
and makes their brain inactive and frivolous,” the official Pars news agency quoted him as saying.
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Ayatollah Khomaini accused the regime of deposed shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of corrupting and degrading
Iranian youth by permitting music to be broadcast over the airwaves.
But songs of the revolution that toppled the shah's regime and other standard music fare still were broadcast yes-
terday.
The ayatollah's attack was reminiscent of attempts in other countries to censor music. China tried to root out
some music during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Radicals said Western music reflected “the nasty life
and decadent sentiments of the bourgeoisie.”
Hitler baimed depraved art, including jazz and some modern classical composers. But he loved Richard Wagner,
and for that reason, an unofficial, but firm ban of Wagnefs music persists on Israeli radio, television and concert
stages.
In northwestern Iran, Governor-General Jamshid Haghu of West Azerbaijan Province disclosed that state police
headquarters near the town of Khoy had fallen to insurgent Kurds, Pars said.
Premier Mehdi Bazargan's provisional government acted quickly to discourage further attempts at sabotaging
the country's vital petroleum industry.
The two men executed yesterday were believed to be brothers and members of the ethnic Arab community in
southern Khuzestan province. They were executed swiftly after being caught with a bomb near pipelines leading
to Abadan, sight of a giant oil processing plant.
Three other men were executed for crimes ranging from heroin pushing to “rebelling against the Islamic republic
of Iran.” It raised the total of executions since the February revolution to 363.
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NEWS SUBJECT: (Legal (1LE33); Intellectual Freedoms & Civil Liberties (11N08); Civil Rights Law (1C134);
Censorship (1 CE48); Government (1 G080))
REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WE S4); Iran (11R40); Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH KHOMAINI; AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMAINI; CULTURAL
REVOLUTION; RAMADAN; WAGNER) (Hitler; Jamshid Haghu; Kurds; Mohammed Reza Pahlavi; Music;
Pars; Premier Mehdi Bazargan; Rebellious Kurdish; Richard Wagner; Saboteurs; Sadegh Ghotbzadeh)
Word Count: 613
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July 23, 1979
Section: Editorial
Iran: hell under a holy man
Iran under the holy tenor of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini is as savage a place as it was under the unholy terror
of the Shah. Only the chaos has deepened, and the absurdity.
The holy man who promised a democratic, egalitarian Islamic Republic has laid down, as if on tables of stone,
an authoritarian constitution that denies even a hint of the autonomy that had been promised by the Ayatollah's
supporters to the Kurdish and Arab minorities.
And so, while the Ayatollah concentrates on denouncing as Communists all who criticize his constitution, other
ayatollahs included, an Arab liberation movement calling itself Black Wednesday has been blowing up pipelines
and oil-field installations in the southern province of Khuzestan. Meanwhile, to the northwest, Iranian and Iraqi
military aircraft have been exchanging a series of border raids, of which, by an insane symmetry, the Kurdish
people who populate the villages on both sides of the border have been the victims.
The Kurds of Iran, Iraq and Turkey, tough and warlike themselves, have been embattled for most of their his-
tory, ordinarily under attack by the governments that claim sovereignty over the tenitory on which they live,
rather than those of the neighboring countries. Taking the attacks across national borders, as Iran and Iraq have
been doing, simply adds a new dimension of lunacy to an old chronicle of butchery.
The troubles among the Iranian Arabs of Khuzestan, however, are new. They came in with Ayatollah Kho-
maini. And, fanned by inflammatory talk in both Tehran and Baghdad, they threaten to set off explosions more
devastating and more far-reaching than those they have yet produced.
Black Wednesday takes its name from the massacre of Arabs by Iranian troops on Wednesday, May 30. More
than 80 died. The Arabs who died had been protesting the revolutionary regime's decree that Persian Iranian
militiamen among the Ayatollah's legions were to be allowed to keep their arms but that Arab Iranian militia-
men were to be stripped of their weapons.
For Iranian Arabs this brutal slaughter was the first warning offered that the Islamic Republic of the Ayatollah
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was to be much less sympathetic in practice to Iran's minority peoples than it had been in promise.
The following month a peace pact was signed between Arab community leaders and Rear Admiral Ahmad
Madani, the military governor of Khuzestan. Arab rights were to be protected. The massacre was to be investig-
ated and those responsible for it punished. But Black Wednesday and its supporters insist that the promises were
not followed through.
Between two such volatile and violent states as Iraq and Iran any disorders among borderland minorities have
explosive implications. But there are extra complications in Khuzestan.
The majority of Moslems in Iraq, as in Iran, are members of the populist and often turbulent Shia branch of the
faith. Several of the shrines most holy to Ayatollah Khomaini's followers are in fact situated in Iraq. But the mil-
itary rulers of Iraq are members of the Sunni branch of the faith which is the religious establishment in most of
the Moslem world. And the Iranian Arabs of Khuzestan are Sunnis as well.
Thus the military rulers in Baghdad have a special interest, beyond the claims of pan-Arab nationalist rhetoric,
in the Iranian Arabs of Khuzestan. Alarmed already by the possibility that the Shia fundamentalism preached
by the Ayatollah will spill over the border to turn Iraqis against their Sunni leaders, Baghdad cannot help seeing
its Arab brothers in Iran as natural allies and as potential citizens more congenial even than most of its own
people.
The fires of anger in Khuzestan could hardly have been lit at a more dangerous time. In Iraq a new President,
Saddam Hussein, has taken power and talks like a man determined to prove his toughness. In Iran competing
governments and shadow-governments are wrestling in the dark, and the administration of the country has come
down to the matter of keeping the firing squads occupied. Each country has territorial claims on the other.
Military incompetence on both sides - the Iranians could not hold up the Shah; the Iraqis could not crush the
Kurds - may be the last, best hope for peace.
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NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (1S005); Political Risk (1P029); World Conflicts (1W007); Islam (11S02);
Global Politics (1GL73); Religion (1RE60))
REGION: (Western Asia (1WE54); Asia (1A561); Middle East (1M123); Arab States (1AR46); Gulf States
(1GU47); Iran (11R40); Iraq (11R87))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (ARAB IRANIAN; ARABS; AYATOLLAH; AYATOLLAH KHOMAINI; AYATOL-
LAH RUHOLLAH KHOMAINI; IRANIAN ARABS; IRANIAN ARABS OF KHUZESTAN; IRAQIS;
KHUZESTAN; KURDISH; KURDS; PERSIAN IRANIAN; SUNNI; SUNNIS) (Ahmad Madani; Alarmed; Ar-
ab; Black; Saddam Hussein)
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Word Count: 841
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July 20, 1979
Section: News
Iran's leaders agree on power-sharing
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From The New York Times
and Reuter News Agency
TEHRAN - Premier Mehdi Bazargan declared yesterday that he had reached
agreement with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini, Iran's revolutionary leader,
on the sharing of power between the secretive Revolutionary Council of
Iran and his embattled Government.
In a nationally televised speech, Mr. Bazargan said that members of the Revolutionary Council would participate in the
Government as deputy ministers, while members of his Cabinet will share in the Revolutionary Council's deliberations.
He said the decision was reached after weeks of deliberation and the near-resignations of 11 of his 17 ministers in the
Cabinet.
“It was the only way to preserve the unity of word and the unity of decision and leadership in this country,” Mr. Bazar-
gan said.
The Premier said he went to see Ayatollah Khomaini last week in Qom, the holy city where the Shiite leader lives, and
told him that he was about to lose most of his Cabinet. “I told him that if they left I would have no one else to replace
them with,” he said.
The Premier then invited some of his key ministers to participate in a meeting with members of the Revolutionary Coun-
cil and the ayatollah.
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After two days of deliberations, Mr. Bazargan said, a decision was reached to mix the executive power of his Govern-
ment with the legislative power of the Revolutionary Council.
Mr. Bazargan said that four members from the Revolutionary Council will now take positions as deputy ministers in the
Government. He described them as “those with whom we have had the most difficulties.”
The four include Ayatollah Mahdavi Khani, the chief of Iran's Islamic Committees, or Komitehs, which have wide juris-
diction in the administration of law and order, and Ayatollah Hashem Rafsanjani, who has a key role in the administra-
tion of the Revolutionary Tribunals which have dispatched more than 300 people to death.
Alitied Bani-Sadr, a radical Islamic economist, will be appointed deputy minister of economy and finance with special
responsibility for the banking sector. Ayatollah Bahonar has been appointed deputy minister of education.
Unrest among Iran's ethnic minorities has spread to the Turkish border area where Kurds were reported yesterday to
have attacked a column of paramilitary police and captured two tanks.
Unrest among Iran's ethnic minorities has spread to the Turkish border where Kurds were reported yesterday to have at-
tacked a column of paramilitary police and captured two tanks.
Kurdish sources said the population was opposed to police reinforcement of a frontier post at Soro.
The official Voice of the Islamic Republic Radio blamed counter-revolutionaries for the clashes and said troops would be
sent up to the border area. It said the police reinforcements were sent on Thursday to ensure law and order in the area and
to prevent arms smuggling.
Southern Khuzestan province was reported calm yesterday after violence involving autonomy-seeking Arabs earlier this
week.
In the northwestern town of Khoy, five former officials of the shah's regime were executed early yesterday after being
found guilty of shooting anti-shah demonstrators.
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COMPANY: PREMIER
NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (1S005); Minority & Ethnic Groups (1M143); Race Relations (1RA49); Political Risk
(1P029); World Conflicts (1W007); Islam (11S02); Global Politics (1GL73); Religion (1RE6O); Government (1G080))
REGION: (Western Asia (1WE54); Asia (1A561); Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Iran (11R40))
Language: EN
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OTHER INDEXING: (CABINET; KOMITEHS; KURDISH; PREMIER; PREMIER MEHDI BAZARGAN; SOUTH-
ERN KHUZESTAN) (Ahmed Bath; Ayatollah Mahdavi Khani; Bahonar; Bazargan; Council; Hashem Rafsanjani; Kho-
maini; Revolutionary; Revolutionary Council; Ruhollah Khomaini; Unrest)
Word Count: 631
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July 16, 1979
Section: News
Ayatollah's aide shot Iran executes three after blast
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From Reuter News Agency
and The New York Times
TEHRAN - Three men were executed in Iran's gulf port of Khorramshahr
last night after being blamed for a grenade attack on a mosque yesterday
in which six Government supporters were killed and 60 injured, a
spokesman for the city governor's office said.
He said the three were held responsible for the blast which provoked a violent attack by Islamic revolutionary guards on
the home of Arab leader Sheik Taher Shobeir Khaghani.
About 300 guards stormed the sheik's home and a nearby religious school. At least two people were killed.
Survivors of the mosque attack immediately blamed Arabs seeking autonomy for Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province for
the blast. Two of the men executed last night had Arab surnames.
In Tehran yesterday a close aide to Iran's unofficial head of state, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini, was shot and wounded
in the arms and legs.
Hujaat Islam Razi Shirazi, the chief of a key Islamic revolutionary committee and a prominent clergyman, was shot three
times by a man who waited for him in a tiny alley leading to his home from a mosque where he worshipped. Another
man with a scooter, which was used for a getaway, waited for the assailant and both escaped.
Mr. Shirazi was rnshed to hospital and was said later to be in satisfactory condition.
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Khorramshahr city governor Mohammed Alavi said in a telephone interview he was resigning and attributed the city's vi-
olence to what he called the intervention of irresponsible latecomers to the Iranian revolution.
He added: “I have warned that the danger in Khuzestan is threatening the revolution.”
Iran's navy chief, Rear-Admiral Ahmed Madani, who is also governor of Khuzestan, was on his way to the town yester-
day from the provincial capital Ahvaz.
Mr. Alavi called on Ayatollah Khomaini to support Admiral Madani “with all his might and power.”
In troubled Kurdestan province, Kurds took control of the border town of Marivan on Saturday after a battle with re-
volutionary guards in which at least 22 died. Government forces were standing by behind barricades at the main San-
andaj airport.
Khorramshahr has been the scene of mounting tension over the past week since saboteurs claimed responsibility for
blowing up oil and gas pipelines as a protest against Government failure to meet the minority Arab's autonomy demands.
The minority community contends that the continued detention of Iranian Arabs is the main reason for tension in the re-
gion. Officials have blamed counter-revolutionaries for the unrest.
More than 100 airborne guards were flown in yesterday to restore order in Marivan.
Meanwhile, Iran's military strength may be decreased under an emergency budget released yesterday which calls for a
$12-billion spending cut and a 60 per cent cut in defence spending.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Political Risk (1P029); World Conflicts (1W007); Global Politics (1GL73))
REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WE54); Iran (11R40); Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (HUJAAT ISLAM RAZI SHIRAZI; KHUZESTAN; KURDESTAN; MR SHIRAZI; SHEIK TAH-
ER SHOBEIR) (Ahmed Madani; Alavi; Arab; Ayatollah; Ayatollah Khomaini; Khomaini; Kurds; Madani; Mohammed
Alavi)
Word Count: 561
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June 16, 1979
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Iranians claim new attacks made at border by Iraqis
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (Reuter) - Iran accused Iraq yesterday of launching new attacks on its territory and
said people in the area were ready to go to the nearby border and fight.
The official Iranian radio said Iraqi planes strafed three of Iran's border posts, the second such air attack along
the 750-mile frontier in less than two weeks.
As tension continued between the two Moslem states, the radio said the Iraqi jets struck after flying across the
border near Mehran in 11am Province, southwest of Tehran.
The broadcast also said Iraqi ground patrols opened fire at the same time on Iranian guards across the border. It
made no mention of casualties.
Paramilitary police and revolutionary guards were rushed to the border from the provincial capital, 11am, and the
Iraqi guards were forced to retreat, the Iranian broadcast said.
The radio said thousands of people marched through the streets of 11am yesterday shouting they were ready to
fight. The province is the home of minority Kurdish and Turkish tribesmen.
Iran said Iraqi jets bombed and strafed four Kurdish villages in a June 4 raid over the border. Six people were
reported to have died in the raid and a seventh died of his injuries later.
The Iranian charges have sparked a war of words between the two neighbors. The Tehran Government spokes-
man, Amir Entezam, said on Thursday: “We condemn the raids and if these incidents happen in the future our
government will take serious decisions.”
Mr. Entezam said the Iraqis apologized for the June 4 raid but this was denied by Iraqi Embassy sources here.
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They said Iran had ample warning of proposed military activity along tile border in Kurdestan. The Iraqis were
apparently in hot pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas from their side of the border.
The tension between the two countries has grown since this month's fighting in Iran's southern province of
Khuzestan between autonomy-seeking Arabs and Iranian militia.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (World Conflicts (iWO07) Global Politics (1GL73))
REGION: (Arab States (iAR46) Middle East (iMI23) Gulf States (iGU47) Western Asia (iWE54) Iran
(iIR40) Iraq (iIR87) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (IRAQI EMBASSY IRAQIS) (Amir Entezam Entezam Iranians Paramilitary)
Word Count: 386
6/16/79 GLOBEMAIL 14
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June 15, 1979
Section: News
Iran issues warning in wake of air raids on border by Iraqis
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN -- TEHRAN (Reuter) - A verbal war between Iran and Iraq intensified yesterday with a warning
by the Iranian Government that it would make “serious decisions” in the event of further air raids on border vil-
lages by Iraqi jets. The Iraqi planes which bombed several villages 10 days ago were apparently in hot pursuit of
independence-seeking Kurdish guerrillas who had fled across the border into Iran. Iran's official Pars news
agency said yesterday that a seventh person had died as a result of the attacks.
Government spokesman Amir Entezam said: “The incidents caused by Iraq are in defiance of good and friendly
relations between the two countries and I hope our relations will normalize.”
But, he added: “We condemn the raids and if these incidents happen in the future our Government will make ser-
ious decisions.”
Senior Iraqi diplomats denied a statement by Mr. Entezam that Iraq had apologized for the attack. Reports of an
apology have been broadcast on the official Islamic radio for the past two days.
The diplomats said no apology had been made, adding that Iran was warned in advance of military activity near
their common border in Kurdistan.
Tension between the neighboring countries was heightened by fighting in the southern Persian Gulf province of
Khuzestan between Persian militia and autonomy-seeking Arabs.
Senior Iranian officials have claimed that Iraqis were running guns to the Arabs and accused the Baghdad Gov-
ernment of moving troops up to the border. Roads up to the frontier with Iraq in the sensitive area have been put
under a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
A symptom of the worsening relations has been extensive Iranian press coverage of alleged mistreatment of
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Shiite Moslem clergy by Iraq's Baathist Government.
The overwhelming majority of Iranians and more than 50 per cent of Iraqis, belong to tile Shiite sect.
Iranian newspapers have reported violent demonstrations in the Iraqi cit of Najaf, where Iran's unofficial head
of state, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini, spent most of his 16 years in exile.
They said the demonstrations were in support of Shiite leader Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammed Baqer Sadr, who
was reported by the Pars agency to have been arrested in Najaf.
Ayatollah Khomaini, who earlier this month appealed to Ayatollah Baqer Sadr to remain in Najaf rather than go
into voluntar exile, sent him a telegram of support yesterday.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (iSO05) Political Risk (iPO29) World Conflicts (iWO07) Islam (iIS02)
Global Politics (iGL73) Religion (iRE60) Government (1G080))
REGION (Western Asia (1WE 4) Asia (1A561) Middle East (1M123) Arab States (1AR46) Gulf States
(1GU47) Iran (1IR40) Iraq (11R87))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (IRANIANS SHIITE) (Amir Entezam A atollah Ayatollah Baqer Ayatollah Khomaini
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini Baqer Sadr Entezam Roads Sadr Senior Tension)
Word Count: 476
6/15/79 GLOBEMAIL 3
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Globe and Mail
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April 25, 1979
Section: News
Grenade attack on Premier foiled by Iranian militia
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From The Associated Press
and Reuter News Agency
TEHRAN - Revolutionary militiamen foiled an assassination attempt
against Iranian Premier Mehdi Bazargan and other top Government leaders
yesterday.
Witnesses said the militiamen wrested a hand grenade from a man who had tried to throw it at the leaders and kicked the
would-be assassin to the ground as he attempted to fire a sub-machine gun. Militiamen hustled Mr. Bazargan, 72, to
safety and took the unidentified attacker and at least one other person into custody.
Mr. Bazargan and other leaders of the provisional revolutionary Government were marching in the funeral procession of
murdered Gen. Mohammed Vali Gharani when the attack took place.
Gen. Gharani, the first army chief of staff appointed after last February's revolution, was killed in his garden Monday by
two assassins who escaped. He was the first major figure of the revolution to be assassinated.
A Government aide denied to reporters that an assassination attempt had been made against Mr. Bazargan. But reporters
saw the disarming of the unidentified man who, they said, wore an air force uniform.
No shots were fired, and the funeral march continued without Mr. Bazargan. He and other senior officials were pushed
into two cars that rushed away through the crowd, with armed security men hanging on, witnesses said.
Members of Iran's air force have been loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini, religious leader of the revolution that
ended the Shah's rule, and to the Bazargan Government appointed by the ayatollah.
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A secret organization named Forghan and another gronp calling itself People's Fighters claimed responsibility yesterday
for Gen. Gharani's murder. Little is known about Forghan, which is named for a holy book.
Forghan said the general was killed for his role in the death of innocent people in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj during
fighting between troops and Kurdish tribesmen last month, and because of his collaboration with Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahiavi.
Gen. Gharani was the Shah's military intelligence chief but he was jailed twice for opposing the monarchy.
Among political groups that condemned the general's murder were the leftist-religious urban guerrilla movement Feday-
een and the pro-Moscow Tudeh (Communist) Party, which called for a determined struggle against counter-re-
volutionaries.
The assassination was the latest in a series of violent incidents in Iran since the revolution, including serious clashes dur-
ing the weekend in the northwestern town of Naghadeh between Kurds and local Turkish-speaking Azerbaijanis.
Meanwhile, firing squads yesterday executed another member of the Shah's army, a sergeant, in the southwestern town of
Shushtar, after trial by a revolutionary court. He was the 158th accused known to have been executed since the revolu-
tion.
In the northwestern town of Naghadeh, the third Government-sponsored ceasefire in as many days appeared to be hold-
ing.
State radio said 40 death certificates had been issued so far after four days of fighting between ethnic Kurdish and Turk-
ish tribesmen. The official Pars news agency has put the Naghadeh death toll as high as 180 in recent days.
The Government said it sent in 600 troops Sunday.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (1SOOS); Violent Crime (1V127); Civil Unrest ( 1CI 1 1); Political Risk (1P029); Crime
(1CR87); World Conflicts (1W007); Global Politics (1GL73); Government (1G080))
INDUSTRY: (Ground Forces (1GR94); Military Ordnance & Weapons Systems (1M179); Military Forces (1M137);
Aerospace & Defense (1AE96); Defense (1DE43); Defense Equipment (1DE51))
REGION: (Western Asia (1WE S4); Asia (1AS61); Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Iran (11R40))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AIR FORCE; AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAR KHOMAINI; MOHAMMED REZA PAHLAVI;
SHAH; STATE) (Bazargan; Forghan; Gharani; Kurdish; Kurds; Mehdi Bazargan; Mohammed Vali Gharani)
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Word Count: 644
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April 24, 1979
Section: News
Fired after Kurdish revolt, general slain in Tehran
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From Reuter News Agency
and The New York Times
TEHRAN - Gen. Mohammed Vali Gharani, Iran's first armed forces chief of
staff after the revolution, was shot by three unidentified gunmen in his
home yesterday and died later in a hospital.
He was the first major figure in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini's regime to be slain. A gronp calling itself Forghan Fight-
ers claimed responsibility for the slaying.
There was immediate speculation that Gen. Gharani, in his late 60s, was the victim of leftists who considered him pro-
U.S. or of Kurds who resented his tough line against a Kurdish uprising in the northwestern town of Sanandaj last
month.
The general was appointed Feb. 12, the chaotic last day of the revolution against the Shah, by Premier Mehdi Bazargan.
His appointment had the blessing of Ayatollah Khomaini.
But he was dismissed on March 27 after severe criticism of his handling of the Sanandaj uprising.
The general airlifted commandos of the Shah's former brigade of personal bodyguards, the Immortals, to fight Kurds
who were seeking greater self-mle. He was alleged to have ordered helicopter gunships to machine gun Kurdish civilian
areas.
By the time of his dismissal, rumors also had spread that he tortured prisoners during the Shah's regime.
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Gen. Gharani was head of army intelligence when anti-Shah premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who forced the monarch
into a three-day exile in 1953, was in power.
When the Shah returned and Mr. Mossadegh was ousted, the general survived in office but was dismissed in 1957. He
was in retirement before his appointment at the end of the revolution.
Nine more people linked with the Shah's regime, including a police general and a mullah (Moslem clergyman), were ex-
ecuted yesterday by revolutionary courts in the eastern town of Mashed and Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf coast.
At least 157 people, including 30 generals, are known to have faced firing squads since the February revolution.
The revolutionary court in the holy city of Qom, where Ayatollah Khomaini resides, acquitted six people charged with
opposing the revolution and jailed two others yesterday. One of the two men sentenced was given 50 lashes.
The court also excommunicated two mullahs and ordered them to leave the city.
The state radio also reported that 179 political detainees were released yesterday from Tehran's Qasr Prison, where about
1,200 other political prisoners still were held.
The release of a large group added weight to rumors that an amnesty might be announced soon for lesser-known political
prisoners.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Political Risk (1PO29); World Conflicts (1WOO7); Global Politics (1GL73))
REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WE S4); Iran (11R40); Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH KHOMAINI; AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMAINI; GHARANI; IMMOR-
TAL5; KURDI5H; MOHAMIVIED VALI GHARANI; PREMIER MEHDI BAZARGAN; SHAH) (Bandar Abbas; Mo-
hammed Mossadegh; Mossadegh)
Word Count: 511
4/24/79 GLOBEMAIL 19
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April 23, 1979
Section: News
Ayatollah's aide extends influence Fighting rages in northwestern Iran
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (Reuter) - Fighting raged last night in the northwestern Iranian town of Naghadeh
alter a day of abortive peace moves by religious and Government leaders, state television reported.
It said several people were killed yesterday afternoon and Government troops were poised to enter the town,
near the Turkish and Iraqi borders, if fighting did not cease.
The street fighting in the small town of 40,000 poses delicate problems for the central provisional Government
in Tehran. The troubles mainly involve two ethnic minorities, Kurds and Iranians of Turkish origin.
State media gave no casualty figures yesterday but Tehran newspapers reported up to 70 people killed since the
fighting began three days ago.
The television reported last night: “Fighting is still going on in Naghadeh. The army have not yet gone into ac-
tion. They are still situated around the town.”
The continued shooting meant that Kurds and Turkish-Iranian gunmen, dug in behind barricades, in houses and
on rooftops, were ignoring ceasefire appeals by a delegation from the Interior Ministry and from religious and
political leaders.
Meanwhile, in a significant political development in the capital yesterday, Ibrahim Yazdi, a controversial former
aide of religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini, has apparently become the effective head of the Foreign
Ministry.
Deputy Premier Amir Abbas Entezam, at a regular news conference, told reporters that Premier Mehdi Bazargan
had taken over the vacant portfolio of foreign minister, with Mr. Yazdi, already deputy premier for revolutionary
affairs, as deputy foreign minister.
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But tile official Pars news agency, reporting the changes, said:
Premier Mehdi Bazargan will supervise the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Yazdi will nm the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs on behalf of the premier. This, coupled with newspaper headlines saying Mr. Yazdi would re-
place Karim Sanjabi at the Foreign Ministry, indicated that Mr. Yazdi had increased his sphere of influence.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Military Conflicts (iMI68) World Conflicts (iWO07) Global Politics (iGL73) Govern-
ment (1G080))
REGION: (Middle East (iMI23) Gulf States (iGU47) Western Asia (iWE54) Iran (iIR40) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (FOREIGN MINISTRY INTERIOR MINISTRY MINISTRY OF FOREIGN) (Abbas
Entezam, Avatollah Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini Bazargam Ibrahim Yazdi Karim Sanjabi Kurds Mehdi
Bazargam Premier Mehdi Yazdi)
Word Count: 402
4/23/79 GLOBEMAIL ii
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Globe and Mail
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April 11, 1979
Section: News
Courts show leniency Iran faces unrest, pro-monarchy bid
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From Reuter News Agency
and The Associated Press
TEHRAN - Iran's revolutionary Government said yesterday it faced unrest
from separatist elements and unemployed workers in sensitive border
areas, and conceded that some people were calling for a return to
monarchy.
Meanwhile, the revolutionary courts continued secret trials and executions, but for the first time showed leniency to sev-
eral defendants.
Deputy Premier Amir Entezam spoke at a press briefing yesterday of continuing unrest among minority Kurds in west-
ern Iran and the Baluchis in the southeast.
He accused foreign agents of stirring up the unrest by taking advantage of widespread unemployment and separatist tend-
encies in border areas.
The number of jobless has risen as some industries have been shut down. It is now estimated at more than 3 million, or
about 9 per cent of the population. A number of foreigners had been arrested in the Baluchi area near the Afghan and
Pakistani borders, but Mr. Entezam did not identify them.
Mr. Entezam said that during a recent march by hundreds of jobless people in the western Kurdish area, some pro-Shah
elements had shouted for the return of the monarchy.
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The Government has faced uprisings by minorities seeking more rights in both the Kurdish region and the Turkoman
area of the northeast, near the Soviet border, and to a lesser extent in Baluchistan.
Mr. Entezam indicated for the first time that unemployment had become a major cause of discontent in Iran since the
February revolution which forced the Shah into exile.
Tehran newspapers reported yesterday that 13,500 jobless workers from various industries had begun a sit-in in a work-
ers' building in southern Iran, demanding jobs.
For the first time since the revolution, the courts began showing leniency, handing out prison terms rather than death sen-
tences and even acquitting 16 defendants in Tehran. In Borujerd, a former policeman was jailed for two years.
But four more officials of the Shah's government, including Col. Houshang Tavana, a former martial-law administrator,
were executed yesterday. The new deaths brought to 90 the total of secret revolutionary executions, including 30 in the
past five days.
INDEX REFERENCES
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REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WE S4); Iran (11R40); Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (BALUCHIS; DEPUTY PREMIER AMIR ENTEZAM; KURDS; SHAH) (Entezam; Houshang
Tavana)
Word Count: 440
4/11/79 GLOBEMAIL 4
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Globe and Mail
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April 2, 1979
Section: News
Islamic republic declared but Iran now must deal with minorities demands
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (AP) - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini triumphantly proclaimed an Islamic republic
yesterday, saying almost all Iranians had voted for creation of the country's first government of God.
The Shiite Moslem leader, who led the struggle that toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahiavi, said his country-
men had voted to establish a government of righteousness and to overthrow and bury the monarchy in the
garbage can of history.
The aytollah's statement contrasted with continued concern by the revolutionary Government over unrest among
Iran's large ethnic minority groups.
Premier Medhi Bazargan warned rebellious Turkoman tribesmen in the northeastern city of Gonbad-e-Qabous
yesterday that if the bloody fighting there did not cease, the Government would send troops to restore order.
The Turkomans, and four other ethnic minorities seeking to retain their cultural identities, pose a major threat to
Iran's Islamic revolution.
About a third of Iran's 36 million people belong to these groups, which inhabit strategically located and fertile
areas crucial to the economy.
The minorities - Arabs, Baluchis, Kurds, Turks and Turkomans - have their own customs and languages. Four
are Sunni Moslems in a land dominated by the Shiite sect. The Turks in Iran are largely Shiite.
Goal is autonomy
Repressed for years, their common goal is autonomy, the freedom to teach their own languages in addition to
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Persian in public schools, and the right to select their own local governments. They also want the Government in
Tehran to invest most of the income derived from their respective provinces back into their depressed areas.
Mr. Bazargan's provisional Government has granted a measure of autonomy to two of the most vociferous
minorities - the Kurds and Turkomans. Concessions are also expected to be made to other minorities.
Under the Shah, the minorities were kept in line by a strong military presence. Minority leaders were either
jailed or exiled. Movements were put down by force. The central government also kept them powerless by drain-
ing off their economies, keeping the autonomy-minded provinces underdeveloped.
But once the monarchy collapsed and the army disbanded under the weight of a Islamic uprising Feb. 12, the
minorities took action.
Kurds first to move
First to move were the 4 million Kurds who live in northwestern Iran, near the borders of Turkey and Iraq.
Four days of fighting against government forces in the provincial capital of Sanandaj left 200 dead and hundreds
wounded.
A ceasefire was arranged after a Kurd was appointed the province's governor-general for the first time and the
city was permitted to pick its own officials. Other demands are under study.
The Kurds, recognizable by their baggy trousers, multi-colored waistbands and tassled turbans, inhabit fertile
valleys and plains. They have aspired to self-rule for centuries. An additional 8 million Kurds live nearby in Ir-
aq and Turkey. Some also live in Soviet Armenia.
The 500,000 Arabs who live in oil-rich Khuzestan province in the south also demand rights to keep their iden-
tity.
Demonstrations have flared in Ahwaz, centre of the oil-producing region, creating serious concern in Tehran.
Political unrest among the 8 million Turks in Azerbaijan province rose to the surface recently in demonstrations.
With the demands for self-rule, the government, fearing the situation could get out of control, pledged to give
the Turks some measure of autonomy, but at the same time warned them to stay calm until their problems could
be solved.
INDEX REFERENCES
COMPANY: ISLAMIC COMMUNICATION NETWORK INC
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NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (iSO05) Islam (iIS02) Religion (iRE60) Government (iGO80) Minority &
Ethnic Groups (1M143))
REGION: (Middle East (iMI23) Gulf States (iGU47) Western Asia (iWE54) Iran (iIR40) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (IRANIANS ISLAMIC KHUZESTAN KURD SHA}L SHAH MOHAMMAD REZA
PAHLAVL SHIITE SHIITE MOSLEM SUNNI MOSLEMS) (Bazargaw Premier Medhi Bazargaw Repressed)
Word Count: 706
4/2/79 GLOBEMAIL 3
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Globe and Mail
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March 24, 1979
Section: News
Kurds get Iran 's promise of limited self-rnle status
Sanandaj IRAN
Sanandaj IRAN -- SANANDAJ, Iran (AP) - A ceasefire between Kurdish tribesmen and Government troops
restored peace to this strife-torn city in western Iran yesterday alter the Kurds won promises of at least limited
autonomy from the central Government in Tebran.
In central Sanandaj, men loaded weapons aboard buses, trncks and cars to journey back to their villages. Loud-
speakers blared messages of appreciation for their help from Sanandaj citizens.
The ceasefire went into effect Wednesday alter almost four days of fighting claimed about 200 lives and left
hundreds wounded.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Military Conflicts (1M168); World Conflicts (1W007); Global Politics (1GL73))
REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WES4); Iran (11R40); Asia (1AS61))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (KURDISH) (Iran; Kurds; Sanandaj; Sanandaj IRAN)
Word Count: 118
3/24/79 GLOBEMAIL 13
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Globe and Mail
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March 23, 1979
Section: News
Kurdish rebels reject ayatollah's demand to lift garrison siege
Sanandaj IRAN
Sanandaj IRAN - - From Reuter News Agency
and The New York Times
SANANDAJ, Iran - Representatives of religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomaini yesterday asked I curdish guerrillas to lift their siege at an
army garrison here but they were met with demands for autonomy for the
rugged I curdish border region.
At an open-air rally at Azadi (Freedom) Square in this capital of Kurdistan province, Ayatollah Makmoud Taleghani of
Tehran called for an end to the siege at the army barracks one mile outside the town.
Ayatollah Taleghani, sent here by Ayatollah Khomaini to try to end the fighting between Kurdish guerrillas and soldiers,
told the crowd that the army was needed to protect the region.
“Suppose we pulled out all the soldiers - do you think you could defend yourselves?” he asked.
The crowds chanted “Yes, yes,” as guerrillas thrust their guns into the air.
The guerrillas are divided into leftist and conservative religious groups, but both are demanding self-rule for the Kurdish
region.
Fighting broke out earlier this week when the Sanandaj residents, already well-armed and always suspicious of any re-
gime in Tehran, saw wheat and arms being moved out of the town - apparently headed for non-Ku rdish areas.
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INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Military Conflicts (iMI68) World Conflicts (iWO07) Global Politics (1GL73))
REGION: (Middle East (iMI23) Gulf States (iGU47) Western Asia (iWE54) Iran (iIR40) Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH KHOMAINL AYATOLLAH MAHMOUD TALEGHANL AYATOLLAH
RUHOLLAH KHOMAINL AYATOLLAH TALEGHANL KURDISH KURDISTAN SANANDAJ) (Iran Sanand IR-
AN Suppose)
Word Count: 245
3/23/79 GLOBEMAIL 3
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Globe and Mail
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March 22, 1979
Section: News
NEWS SUMMARY IRANIAN BATTLE
Confused fighting continued to rage in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj in western Iran yyesterday and one guer-
rilla leader estimated the death toll from three days of conflict at more than 200. Tehran has denounced the guer-
rillas, but a rebel spokesman said they were supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini and that they were
fighting supporters of the ousted Shah.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (World Conflicts (1W007); Global Politics (1GL73))
REGION: (Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Western Asia (1WE54); Iran (11R40); Asia (1A561))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMAINI) (NEWS SUMMARY)
Word Count: 73
3/22/79 GLOBEMAIL B 1
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March 22, 1979
Section: News
200 dead reported in western Iran Kurds challenge Khomaini rule
Sanandaj IRAN
Sanandaj IRAN - - From The Associated Press
and Reuter News Agency
SANANDAJ, Iran - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini faced one of the toughest
challenges to his Islamic state yesterday as Kurdish rebels tightened
their hold on this provincial capital and threatened the military
barracks after four days of bloody fighting.
The death toll in the fighting was estimated at more than 200 by one guerrilla leader. The Government said more than
100 have been killed and several hnndred wonnded.
Rebel forces tried repeatedly to overrun the barracks bnt were turned back when the Government put two tanks into the
battle.
Tuesday night's shaky ceasefire vanished yesterday morning as Kurdish rebels wearing cartridge belts across their chests
dodged from doorway to doorway toward the garrison. Government troops fired at them down the tree-lined streets.
Boys in their teens and grey-haired men helped distribute arms and ammunition and set up barriers near the beleaguered
barracks. There was no indication how many defenders were in the military compound.
Terrified civilians huddled in doorways and ambulances and private cars took a stream of dead and wounded to the city's
two hospitals. Many victims were taken to private homes for lack of hospital space. At least one ambulance driver was
shot in the head.
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Appeals for blood donors went out over the local radio station, which the Kurds control, and from sound trncks.
The conflict appears to have been sparked by sectarian rivalry between the Kurds of the Sunni Moslem sect and the
dominant Shiite Moslems who control the new Iranian Government under Ayatollah Khomaini.
Fighting ernpted Sunday over the army's reluctance to issue arms and ammunition to Kurds. The Kurds ousted the Gov-
ernment's local revolutionary committee and installed one of their own shortly after the fighting started.
The ayatollah appealed for an end to the fighting and sent his closest aide, Ayatollah Mahmoud Teleghani, head of
Tehran's Shiite Moslems, to Kurdistan in northwestern Iran to try to arrange a trnce.
Most of Sanandaj was under the tight control of the rebels who received tons of food and ammunition from nearby Kur-
dish towns and villages.
The Government said the armed forces commander, Gen. Vali Ullah Gharani, and Interior Minister Seyyed Ahmad Sadr-
Haj Javadi flew to Kurdistan to try to stop the rebellion from spreading. There are about four million Kurds in western
Iran, but about seven million more live just over the adjacent borders of Iraq and Turkey.
The fighting in Sanandaj, 250 miles west of Tehran, threatened to envelop all of Kurdistan province.
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NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (1S005); Political Risk (1P029); Military Conflicts (1M168); World Conflicts
(1W007); Islam (11S02); Global Politics (1GL73); Religion (1RE6O); Government (1G080))
REGION: (Western Asia (1WE54); Asia (1A561); Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Iran (11R40))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (SUNNI MOSLEM) (Ayatollah Mahmoud Teleghani; Boys; Government; Iran; Kurdish; Sadr-Haj
Javadi; Sanandaj; Sanandaj IRAN; Seyyed Ahmad; Shiite Moslems; Vali Ullah Gharani)
Word Count: 521
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March 21, 1979
Section: News
Renewed fighting breaks ceasefire in western Iran
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - From Reuter News Agency
and The Associated Press
TEHRAN - Fresh violence followed a short-lived ceasefire yesterday as
Iranian troops again battled Kurdish rebels who were laying siege to an
army garrison in the western city of Sanandaj.
The revolutionary Government said it had sent military reinforcements to the area where 86 people were reported killed
and 200 wounded during the fighting Monday.
A ceasefire had been declared Monday night after intervention by local religious leaders, but yesterday the national
Voice of the Revolution radio station quoted Deputy Premier Amir Entezam as saying fighting had resumed.
A Government mission is scheduled to visit Kurdistan today to try to negotiate another ceasefire, Mr. Entezam said.
Mr. Entezam described the situation in Sanandaj yesterday afternoon as much the same as it was on Monday, indicating
the Government so far had failed to achieve any breakthrough.
Mr. Entezam said rebels still controlled the Sanandaj radio station and had taken over the provincial governor-general's
offices.
No troop movements were seen by reporters driving to Sanandaj, 300 miles west of Tehran, but 10 helicopters landed at
the local airport, apparently loaded with soldiers.
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Throughout the day military helicopters made low sweeps over the city, firing down on targets below. Hospitals were
jammed wiht the wounded and doctors working round-the-clock appealed for medical supplies.
It was still not clear how the bloody fighting erupted on Sunday. Religious revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho-
maini and members of the provisional Government have been careful not to blame the Kurdish population of the area,
saying the fighting was fanned by counter-revolutionary elements.
The fiercely independent Kurds, who also inhabit eastern Turkey and northeastern Iraq, have been pressing for self-
determination for many years.
The Kurds have their own language and culture and belong to the Sunni Moslem faith. Most other Iranian Moslems be-
long to the Shiite sect, whose teachings were central to the revolution masterminded by Ayatollah Khomaini.
Reflecting concern over a religious split, Mr. Entezam said yesterday he knew “our real Kurdish Moslem brothers”
would not act against the revolution. But he warned that the Government would “wipe out and destroy all counter-
revolutionary elements.”
Yesterday's fighting was on the Persian New Year's Eve. With Iranians preparing for a five-day holiday, several rallies
were also held around the country to mark the 28th anniversary of the nationalization of the oil industry.
The rallies hailed former Iranian premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who nationalized oil in 1951 and briefly ousted the
Shah in 1953 before a military coup put the monarch back in power.
INDEX REFERENCES
NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (1S005); Political Risk (1P029); Military Conflicts (1M168); World Conflicts
(1W007); Islam (11S02); Global Politics (1GL73); Religion (1RE60); Government (1G080))
REGION: (Western Asia (1WE S4); Asia (1A561); Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Iran (11R40))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (IRANIAN; IRANIAN MOSLEMS; KURDISH MOSLEM; RELIGIOUS; SHI ITE; SUNNI
MOSLEM) (Amir Entezam; Ayatollah Khomaini; Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini; Entezam; Kurdish; Kurds; Mohammed
Mossadegh; Reflecting; Renewed)
Word Count: 552
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March 20, 1979
Section: News
Kurdish rebels lay siege to barracks of Khomaini troops in western Iran
Tehran IRAN
Tehran IRAN - - TEHRAN (Reuter) - Kurdish rebels fought a fierce battle yesterday with air force-backed Gov-
ernment troops in the western city of Sanandaj, capturing the local radio station and police station and putting
the army barracks under siege.
The national Voice of the Revolution radio reported last night that dozens of people had been killed or injured in
the fighting before a ceasefire was declared yesterday afternoon.
Earlier, Moslem revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini called for military resistance against the
rebels, appealing for unity between Iran's Shiite Moslem majority and the Sumii minority to which most Kurds
belong.
The ayatollah's radio statement appeared to indicate that long-standing religious differences between the two
Moslem sects were partly to blame for the fighting in the sensitive Kurdish area near the Iraqi border.
He said anyone who attacked police stations or army garrisons was a foreign agent and did not belong to the
Moslem people. Kurdish leaders, however, accused the remnants of the Shah's army of being responsible.
The ayatollah's headquarters broadcast a nation-wide appeal for volunteer nurses and doctors to treat the
wounded in Sanandaj.
National television, which carried the two appeals, also broadcast a statement from Kurdish religious leaders
calling on the population to maintain peace and order.
A spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party in Mahabad said agents of the toppled monarchy and members
of the Shah's SAVAK secret police in the security forces formed an alliance with reactionary Shiite clergy and
attacked Sunnis in the Kurdish town of Qorveh.
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The Tehran press reported that the air force intervened on the side of the Sanandaj garrison with two helicopter
gunships firing on the Kurds while F-4 Phantom jets swooped over the city.
One citizen told foreign correspondents in Tehran by telephone that he saw seven gunships in action, firing on
the captured radio station and police headquarters.
He said the best-known Kurdish religious and nationalist leader, Sheik Ezzedin Hosseini, went to Sanandaj to
try to stop the fighting and to persuade the army to share its garrison with Kurdish Pesh Murga guerrillas. This
system is in use at Mahabad barracks where a Kurdish colonel was appointed local military commander.
In Tehran, an estimated 10,000 servicemen marched through the city streets in support of Ayatollah Khomaini,
with similar demonstrations taking place in other centres.
Meanwhile, U.S. feminist Kate Millett, expelled from Iran earlier yesterday, said in Paris she was held for 24
hours under armed police guard but was not maltreated.
Miss Millett, 45, arrived in Paris with a companion, Sophie Keir of Vancouver, who was also ordered to leave
the country.
Miss Millett said: “We were not beaten up and we were not maltreated, but we were subjected to every kind of
intimidation that could possibly be used.
Miss Millett said treatment of women under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini was “highly oppressive. “It is not
just about the chador, it is about all the civil rights, and it was for that that we demonstrated. We are terrified for
all our friends in Iran.
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NEWS SUBJECT: (Social Issues (1SOO S); Legal (1LE33); Police (1P098); Judicial (1JU36); Military Conflicts
(1M168); World Conflicts (1W007); Islam (11S02); Religion (1RE6O); Global Politics (1GL73))
INDUSTRY: (Radio (1RA81); Traditional Media (1TR3O); Entertainment (1ENO8); Radio Stations (1RA S1))
REGION: (Western Asia (1WE S4); Asia (1A561); Middle East (1M123); Gulf States (1GU47); Iran (11R40))
Language: EN
OTHER INDEXING: (AIR FORCE; AYATOLLAH; AYATOLLAH KHOMAINI; AYATOLLAH RUHOL-
LAH KHOMAINI; KURDISH; KURDISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY; KURDISH PESH MURGA; SAVAK;
SHAH; SUNNI; SUNNIS) (Kate Millett; Meanwhile; Miss Millett; Sheik Ezzedin Hosseini; Sophie Keir)
Word Count: 634
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