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TERRAN. Aug. 22—Iran's unofficial
head of state, Ayatollah Rubollah
Khomeini, today offered the country's
restive [ Curdish minority the equiva-
lent of $75 million in an apparent bid
to buy its loyalty and head off a rebel-
lion in western iran .
At the same time, khomeini warned
[ Curdish rebel leaders that they would
be punished harshly if they did not ac-
cept his Islamic rule.
In an eight-point statement broad-
cast by the state radio, the Moslem re-
ligious leader said he had ordered the
chairman of the National Iranian Oil
Co. to put a day's oil revenue at the
disposal of the western province of
ICurdistan within the next week. At
normal export levels, this would
amount to about $75 million.
The first four points of the state-
ment covered discipline in the armed
forces, of which [ Chomeini declared
himself the supreme commander last
week.
Hinting at discontent in the armed
forces over his orders to put down the
ICurdish rebellion, he said special
courts would judge soldiers who
failed to obey orders or who took part
in strikes.
The fighting against the ICurds has
been carried out principally by Is-
lamic Revolutionary Guards dis-
patched from outside the ICurdish -re-
gion.
In his statement, Khomeini said. “I
tell the [ Curds that all the Iranian
masses are the same. There is no dif-
ference between the nationalities.”
But he warned members of the ban-
ned Kurdistan Democratic Party that
they must “join islam” or face harsh
treatment from the authorities. The
[ Curds are Sunni Moslems; Khomeini
is the leader of the Shilte wing of Is-
lam in Iran.
In the Kurdish stronghold of Maha-
bad, supporters of the [ Curdistan Dem-
ocratic Party today deployed tanks
and antiaircraft batteries in prepara-
tion for a possible attack by govern-
ment forces.
Earlier today Iran's state radio re-
ported that Revolutionary Guards had
killed 60 ECurdish rebels in mopping
up operations in ECurdistan. The radio
said iO guards were killed in the
clashes, several were injured and 10
were missing.
A. Tehran evening newspaper said
75 rebels were killed.
Those reports could not be con-
firmed independently. [ Curdish
sources indicated that the govern-
ment-controlled news media was try-
ing to dramatize the conflict to rally
support from an increasingly disen-
chanted public.
Meanwhile the leaders of the [ Curd-
ish. rebeUion threatened to execute a
captured Revolutionary Guard for
each rebel [ Curd shot by firing squad.
in other developments in Iran:
o A married woman convicted of
adultery was executed in the northern
town of Behshar, while her lover was
flogged. The revolutionary court said
it gave the lesser sentence to the man
because he was single.
o Two Vest German journalists,
among five European reporters whose
expulsions were ordered yesterday by
the Ministry of National Guidance,
will be permitted to stay in Iran, the
official Pars News Agency said. A
ministry spokesman said the two were
accredited by the government and
that “the expulsion order against.
them was due to a misunderstanding.”
