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Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Aug 20,1979; Section: Front page; Page: 1
Khomeini
orders in
troops
against
the Kurds
From Router
In Tehran
Iranian Goverrnnent forces
on the Kurdistan
capital of Sanandaj j a1cad,. :
after Ayatollah Khomeini
ordered a general mobitisation
to crush what he called a
Kurdish rebellion.
sue 79-year-old unofficial
Head of State said, in a mes-
sage over the State radio, that
the arsenal of the twentieth in.
fantry division was about to
fall into the bands of the
Kurt, who had surrounded
tr*snandaj garrison. He de-
manded that troops be flown to
Sanandaj, and to other parts of
Kurdistan , immediately, to re-
aivision .
But the governor-general of
Kurdistan strongly denied that
t h u Lr.udaj garrison was st ir-
rounded, or that there had
been any lighting in the city.
Mr Mohanunad Rashid Shakiba
said on the telephone from the
city: “I don't know who told
Ayatollah Khomeini this. It is
a total lie. There is no unrest
here.
Roth the town and the bar-
racks are peaceful, and the
local commander has not asked
for any reinforcements.”
The Kurdish society in
Tebran z sId thousands of
townspeople had begun a pea-
ceful sit-in in front of the
Sanandaj barracks, following
Ayatollah Khomeini's mobilts-
ation order. A spokesman for
the society said the people of
Sanandaj wanted to prevent
the Army from taking any
arms out of the garrison.
Thousands of Kurds staged
demonstrations yesterday in
nine main Kurdish towns, to
support theL dual leader,
Sheikh Ersedin Ilosseint, who
has been branded a “corrupt”
element by Ayatollah Kho-
meini according to the spokes '
men-
The Voice of the Islamic Re-
publ4c radio broadcast reported
that troops and Revotutsonary
Guards were on the outskirts
of Sanandaj, ready to attack
th city whenever Ayatollah
Khomeini ordered it.
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The official Pars news agency
said a number of unidentified
courtier-revolutionaries, who
were said to be Leftists and
fl I a? tin' ilow-h2njfld
!Rhomemi
and captured rocket•launthers.
tontimieti irufti page one
series of fiery speeches since
last Frida )- has demanded
vigorous action to crush his
opponents, yesterday gave the
armed forces 30 minutes in
which to mobilise. and ordered
them io put down the insur-
gents violently.
The Kurdistan governur-
general -ld tl re had only
been one small incident in
Sanandaj yesterday.- when
some of the townspeople dis-
armed a truckload ni Revolu-
lionary Guards. Ayatollah
jtheinei i issued his orders
without even consulting me
bout what was going on,” he
said.
Eleven Kurds captured when
Governm forces retook
Paveb were executed at dawn
yesterday in The nearby town
of Kerrnanshah. for waging
war on “God and his represen-
tatives.”
The radio said that Ayatol-
lah Sadegh Khalkhali, who as a
former head of Iran 's Revolu-
tionary Tribuna iins to
have sentenced hundreds to
death since the February revo-
lutlon, had been ordered to
Kerutansliab by Ayatollah Kho-
meini to deal with counter-
z-evnlut ionary cases.
In a stalemeni broaden-cl on
the radio last night. Ayatollah
Khomeini said he had been in-
formed that th& armed forces
had taken emergency measures
to deal with the situation in
Kurdistan.
Epilki , the Ayatollah
carried out his threat to ban
the KDP. which lie blamed for
the violence in Paveh. The
election nf lOP seerelary-
general Abdul Rahaman Qas-
semloo earlier this month was
declared null
lrans Council
a-
Itli' Qassemloo had already
decided to boycott yesterdays
inauguration of Iran's Council
of Constitutio r Esperts,
dominated by clergymen loyal
10 Ayatollah Khomeini.
In a statement issued in the
Kurdish town of Mahabad yes-
teitlay , Mr Qasseniloo sai d
Ayatollah K ii o in e i n I burl
-started an inquisition, and was
gradually restoring iran to a
religious dictatorsIi
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