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TEHRAN, Iran Heavy fighting
was reported Wednesday between
governmert troops and Kurd oh reb-
cia as Iran s leader at amp ed to in
duce the rebels to sin Islam” and lay
down their arms
The government radio reported 86
pers ns killed, including 11 govern
ment soldiers, ir the last two days o
a renewed revolt among Kurd oh
tribesmen fighting for pohtocai auto
nomy ,n the mountainous Kurdistan
province in northwest Iran
Iran's sp ritual leader and de facto
head of state, the Ayatollah Ruho oh
Khomauno, offered the nation's Kurd
ish minority the equivalent of $75
million and what appeared to be gen-
erai amnesty to pers ade their to stop
their re alt,
In an eight-point statement broad-
cast by he state radio, he 79 year
old religious leader said he had or-
dered the thai man of the Nations
Iranian Oil Co to put a day's oil rev
enue at the disposal of Kurdistan pro-
vincc with n the next week At nor-
mal export levels thi would be
worth $75 million,
“I tell the Kurds that all the Iranian
masses are the same Khomaono said
There is no difference betw en the
nationalities.”
But he warned members of the
banned Kurd oh Deiracratic Party
that the” m st “ D,n Islam eke
face harsh punishment from the au
thorities.
Although the Kurde like mast a-
mans, are Moslems the majority of
them are meurbers of the Sunni sect.
Most Iranians belong to the Shia sect
Meanwhile, newspapers reported
that U S. made F 4 Phantom jets had
destreyed an unspecified number of
rebel tanks in raids on Kurdish po i
tions.
So far, Islamic authorities have ex-
ecuted 29 Kurds alleged to have
taken part in the rebellion. Nine of
those faced a firing squad Tuesday in
the border town of Psych
The govemnent said the rebela
had beheaded 18 revolutionary
guardsmen at the hospital during
heavy fighting there over t e week-
end.
More than 400 people reportedly
were killed in Paveh last week when
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IRAN'S PLEA TO KURDS
Continued from Fh t Pige of the guardsmen, who have fought
several Kurdish groups united in a the main battles against the Kurds
battle to expel guardsmen from the Since February, when Khomaini's
town, forces took over the government
The Kurdish Democratic Party from the regime of the exiled Shah
warned Wednesday that its 30,000 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi,
members woujd declare war Kho. The I{urdish party vowed that its
maini's revolutionary guardsmen un- guerrillas would execute one guards-
less they were pulLed out of K dis- ma'i for each ICurd executed by the
tan province. Islamic courts in Kurdistan.
In a letter to the government, the Rebel leaders equated the policies
party said it did not object to the of Khomaini's regime with those of
presence of the Iranian army. But. it the ousted shah.
demanded the immediate withdrawal The only difference is that during
the Pahlavi regime, they did not kill
innocent people so ruthlessly,' said
Karim Hesami, an official of the Kurd
ish Democratic Party.
“The religious leaders should un-
derstand that they cannot silence the
masses with their forces,” Hesami
said in a statement telephoned from
Mahabad.
The monarch suppressed that
lpx siDg, jailed ts ‘eaders ar d main-
tamed subsequent control of Kurdis-
tan with a strong military presence.
Khornaini outlawed the Kurdish
poUtical party Sunday when he mobil-
ized the army against the new rebel.
lion.
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