5/27/2011 Article - Untitled Article
Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Jul 30, 1979; Section: None; Page: 5
Kurdish
leader
fears
reprisal
From Router in Tehran
The spritual leader a! frau's
3.5 eslilioza Kurds mid y
day that bared a con-
frontation between the Army
and the Kurda as the Iranian
military ... to re25
trot of Kurclish areas on the
casntry' a border.
Slseikh Kereotin Itocacini in-
sisted that the Ktsrda should
be grenled arlf-ru —
The dispatch of the Army
and talomic Revolutionary
Guards In Kurdiston is a great
saistake end I.. .L...ted against
all ihe peoples of Iran, the
Sheikh said by plstfrom
lila headquarters In the north.
western town of Mahabad.
The government has been
sending releforeenienta, leirlud-
log armoured units, into Kur-
dish troable spota since July”4ee
ltenspt to take back areas
abandoned when Ihe Shah's
armed forest disintegrated in
the revolution.
The sheikts sent a message
to the people of the Kurdisla
town of Kamysran wh see.
preaenlest a column of 13
tanks resehsng the provincial
capital of Kurdittan. Sasands).
hv staging — ..t L. ,,rotest on
the roads.
Sheikti Erradan Ia a Sunai
Cloalem. like saost Kssrds. The
majorIty of traalan g to
the Shi'ite t tolam, like
Ayatollah Khemelnl. Sheikh
Fesedia believes that tile
future Coessilutlen of the Pats-
nile Republic should clearly
grant autenemy to the Kurds
sod other ethnic nsinortti
An aaae,nbly of cenetits-
tiunal esperta Ia Is he elected
on Augset 3, but the draft
which they will have one
month to approve does not
issenlion atatononsy for any of
Iran's regions.
F!T Deputy Premier Muatafa
Chararan. said In an interview
published at the weekend that
the Goreremeet wan deter.
an iced to reestablish Ito author.
tv lit Kurdish areas with the
Armys
One terget mentioned by Dr
Chamran was the reacrupation
or time mil llary hsae at Islaha-
had. Mafloboct wan she capitol
‘if a rttert.lived Kurdish repub-
lic pracloarard Soviet
ousparro at the end of the
Sreoad World War.
Kurdlob guerrillas raided
M garrlano during the
February upriniog and cap-
bred mary wenpooa. some of
which were reported to have
been ueed when Kstrds pinned
down the 28th tr )ivisien
at us garrison i Coardiasao
provincial capital of a _ ., _ . _ a.. ;
Is Marsh.
The Kurt rlainaed to have
rapturr tanks earlier this
utootto when they intercepted a
osutitory convoy trying to re-
oeen a border post at Sero. art
the Tarkiati frostier, to — re-
store law sod order and pre-
vent smuggling.' Some of the
trenton troops were forced to
through Turkey.
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5/27/2011 Article - Untitled Article
Ayatollah lfhomeiatl regeited
at the weekend a personal note
of apology from the Chinese
Communist Party 's elialrmaa
Bus Gttofeng far visiting Ir an
in the cloning mootho of lhe
deposed reportn 3 Lrdav SOldand Media Limited
that the note was dehit'e'red to
the ayatollah on Saturday by
the visiting Pakistani Foreign
Minister, Agaha Shahi, who
wet him at Qent.
The press also reported yea-
terday that a team of Islamic
guordo in Qam. Ayatollah Kho.
itteini't home town, wilt punish
anyone eating in the daytime
doring the Moslem faatlng
month or Ramadan. The
Tehran newspaper Bamdad
said tranogrennnco wauld be
punished in public, bat did net
indicate the type of puaioh-
itsent.
• Iranian nationals end fnr•
cigia travellers may no lunger
lake Persian carpets with them
when leaving iran, the caslomo
department ruled yesterday.
Pamenger carrying carpets
have been stopped at Tehran'n
eirpnrt lately in a drive coin-
ciding with curbs On the
eeport of doreigrs exchange.
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