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:rcpublic today ‘ithout writing for ol
ficial results of the wo clay national
referendum on establishing r new sys
tern to replace the deposed monarchl
I his is the first da of God's gov
erument in [ ran, said Rhomeir I do
crocing that it become a national boll
day, Joyous gun buist 8 cind chantin
of “Allah is great wei e he u d
throughout ‘1 ebran lat into the night.
The interior ministei sacd moi e
than 8 percent oh' the electorate
voted and 97 percent said yes to the
Islamic rc public
This did not seem to take into ac
count re ults from regions like sepa
ratist inclined Kuiclistan, wherc heavy
h03 coils of the referendum were re
‘pci ted
Deputy Prime Minister ,/mii' En
teaa i said full results would not be
I nown loi about In e dla3 s Even the
‘proportion ol the electorate that
voted seemed open to question since
there ‘ire no otci i egisti a lma i oils
Entezani also piedietecl that the
most likely area for any new scpai a
tist i'e ielliun against the 9 ehran go
ernmnn 1 , is Khuzestau, the south est.
I egion around the oil cap taI of Aba
dan at he h cad ci lie Persian C oh J', 11
is popitla ed by rabs , who have been
demanding a gi cater h 'n 'e ol' laconic
Ii om the i ich oil fields concentr'itcd
in then ai ea
flic satanic i err/me has been cast
into the gai bage eai of history,” Kho
nieint s ocl in his l) oclarnation,
“I w ill be at ow sei'vice and at Is
lam's sei ice in the last few clays of
my lile, said the 78 eai old Kho
mcmi, Bc called on the govai n enL
‘to reorganize in an Islamic l'oi in all
the ministi ies that wci e set Uf) on
Western lines,'
It sas IIO / clear hh hat was meant by
h t / 1 or is it yet clear lii eeisel3 what
an Islamic i'eptthhc will be e eept
that it probably will ban pi act ees lot
bidden b3 the Kora i, the loslem 11013
hook such as drinking alcohol, garn
bling and inirnoclest dress,
grow in number ol People think
the Imal shape of the Islamic i epubhic
may hase to be settled by a count of
vaiable to the vai'ious factions
in the icw Iran
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Khomeini Says Balloting
Istablishes Islamic State
IRAN, From Al
Khomeini said the next step is
election of .a constituent assembly to
approve a new constitution. Spokes-
man ‘Entezam said a text of the draft
donstitution will be published next
week and that the people will have
about a month to discuss it before vot-
ing for the assembly's membership.
Asked in an interview why voters
*ere required to do their balloting in
the open, where the different colored
“yes” or “no” ballots could clearly be
seen by partisan observers, Entezam
aid there had not been enough time
to provide booths for the country's
1 ,OOO polling places.
• Nobody watched anyone else and it
ras “a completely free vote,” he
• dded.
The head of a four-man delegation
of French lawyers invited by the gov-
rnment to observe the voting said:
This is not the way we do things in
the West, and it does not meet our
ériteria of democracy.”
Entezam said that he did not yet
know whether voting for the constitu-
ent assembly would be done in the
ame public way.
In the debate on the Islamic repub-
lic, Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan
made it clear that he opposes a radi-
&il rupture of Iranian society. Bazar-
an told a. French interviewer that he
ad told Khomeini he is and always
1 as been a gradualist and that, if the
yato11ah did not care for that ap-
roacIi, he should replace him.
“The problem,” said Bazargan, “is
that the populace is still in a state of
evo1ution, while we are a normal gov-
irnment and, in addition, a trans-
itional government. We want people
;tp return to work. Maybe the next,
elected, government will be revolu-
.tionary.”
There is tremendous pressure on
the 71-year-old Bazargan to run for
resident but he keeps insisting that
ie does not want the job.
. “I think he's the only qualified
than,” said Entezam today.
;: If Baz argan maintains his refusal,
however, some younger men are
emerging as likely candidates, with
Entezam himself representing the Ba-
zargan-style moderate and Revolution-
ary Affairs Minister Ibrahini Yazdi
the Moslem revolutionary exti-en e.
Somewhere in between is radio-televi-
sion director Sadegh Ghotbzadeh.
Bazargan has been openly éritical of
the revolutionary committees with
their thousands of well-armed but
poorly trained Khomeini supporters
providing law and order in much of
the country.
There is a race against time to see
whether the revoluUonary commit-
tees will, be forged into an effective
national military force under Yazdi
before the regular armed services are
reconstituted.
Bazargan chooses to blame the
breakdown in military discipline
wholly on Marxists rather than Mos-
lem revolutionaries like Yazdi's fol-
lowers in the Army's soldiers' commit-
ees.
“The Marxists,” he said, “want to
annihilate the Army under the pre-
text that it is imperialist. We had to
fire the whole command of the Army
because the so'diers demanded it. The
extremists are pressifig against all the
officers. They are doing the same in
the police and the gendarmerie so
that the government will be 100 per-
cent disarmed.”
Bazargan's new defense minister—
the old one was relieved apparently
for ordering dissolution of revolution-
ai y committees in the Navy—made it
clear today that he is on the same
wavelength as his predecessor, Adm.
Ahrnad Madani, and Bazargan.
The new minister, Gen. Taglii Riahi,
said it had been a mistake to retire
the generals en masse.
“We need a national Army,” said RI-
ahi. “but the decision will be made by
Khomeini and the premier. This is a
political matter. They must decide.
We will take their orders, whatever
they decide upon.”
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