Khomeini offers oil revenue to Kurds

          
          5/27/2011
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          Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Aug 23,1979; Section: None; Page: 6
          Khomeini offers oil
          revenue to Kinds
          From Reuter and T JPI
          in Tehran
          Iran 's unofficial Head of
          Stute , Ayatollah Khomeini, yes-
          terday offered the Kurdish
          minority the equivalent ur
          day's oil e i'rungs, and warned
          their rebek leaders they would
          be harshly punished if they did
          not accept the path of is lant
          In a statement broadcast by
          the State Radio, he said he had
          ordered the chairman of the
          National Iranian Oil Company,
          Hassan NI CUI, Lu put a day's oil
          i-eve nue at the disposal of tile
          western province of Etirdistan
          within the next week At n
          mat export levels this would be
          wort h £33 millions.
          Khomeini said: “I tell the
          Kurcls that all the Iranian
          ILIdbSVS are the same. T liv&v iz ,
          no difference between the nati
          onalities.” But he warned mem-
          bers of the Kurdish Democratic
          Party that. th g must “join
          Islam” or face harsh treatment
          from the authorities.
          In the Kurdish stronghold of
          Mahabad, UThI supporters yes-
          Lerday deployed tanks and anti-
          aircraft batteries after iranian
          Air Force F4 Phantom fl 6 l 1 t a
          blasted rebel lank positions on
          Iran's western frontier with
          Ireg, indicating intensive fight-
          ing. - -
          The renewed Rare-up has
          claimed a Iriest 90 Jives , and
          the banned Kurdish Demo-
          cratic Party, 31 u f whose
          members have been executed
          since Sunday , sent a letter to
          the Government threatening
          that its 30,000 members would
          hunch a war unless Revolu-
          tionary Guards withdrew from
          the Kurdisb region, but the
          }CDP cjsd ii did nnt object to
          the Army's presence.
          it gave no reason for
          demanding the withdrawal of
          the Guards, who have fought
          the main battles with the Kurds
          since the February revolutivii,
          The Bamdad newspaper said
          Kurdish rebels were control!-
          ln illuhabad the Kurd's main
          political centre, rnt- several
          other areas, under the Kurdish
          religious leader, Sheiklrtrz!t
          din Hossoini, denounced by
          Ayatollah KhomeinL
          “counter-revolutionary Kurds
          controlled areas outsidetm
          main Kurdish towns
          “ThXriff9 and gendarmerie
          still have a low morale, have
          only made a show of Interven-
          tion, and it is only the people
          and the brave brothers of the
          Revolutionary Guards who are
          involved in various revolu-
          tionary operations,” the Muj-
          haieen said. The army was
          “still (aced with disobedience
          and insubordination ,”
          Reports reaching Tehran in-
          dicated that Government forces
          killed 75 Kurdish insurgents
          and lost 14 4 Ll dr own men.
          The State Radio said Revolu-
          tionary Guards killed 60 Kur-
          dish rebels in fighting whtth
          enpted on Tuesday near Divan
          Darreh, a small Kurdish town
          about 300 milca nvst of
          Tehran.
          Four Revolutionary Guards
          were reported killed in other
          sporadic incidents In Kurdis-
          Ian. press reports said. Ar
          ptñtce official told the ICayhan
          newspaper that 15 Kurds were
          killed In clashes 4tb police
          along the border with Iraq. He
          said the Kurds were among
          several gro'njw -of rebels who
          fled the cities and took shelter
          in border areas and had
          attacked border posts.
          In the northern town of Reh-
          shahr, a woman convicted of
          adultery was executed yester-
          day because she was married,
          hut her lover got oft with a
          flogging of 100 lashes because
          he was single, the oflicia!
          Pars news agency reported.
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