5/27/2011 Article - Untitled Article
Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Oct 24, 1979; Section: None; Page: 9
Kurdlsh
under
pressure
From Ufl in Tehrari
Government troops pressed
their offensive against Kurdish
tribesmen in six 1VET Th
Iranian towns yesterday after
an Army general in the border
region said That he wouW pTob
ably declare a full-fledged war
on the rebels.
Any house from which revo-
lutionary guards are fired upon
will he razed . . - no matter
how marty people are occupr-
ing that huuse t ' t he Tehran
Tim quoted General All
Zahirnejad as saying. The
general is commander of the
Army gzirrison at Ururnieh,
one of the J{urdish cities
under siege flv il e Iraqi
border.
Press reports said that eight
Goveronien: soldiers /vere
ki;fled on Monday when a lauth
mine exploded under th:ir
truck outside the Kurdish cily
of Piranshahr. TL dficial
PARS news agency said that a
six-year-old thUd was killed
zind another person wounded
yesterday when stiots + were
red duiing a demonstration in
Piranshahr.
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In Sarclasht, another town on
the Iraqi border, renewed
shelling wrecked the Education
Department building butted
caused no casualties,
Mahabad ttsetf has been
without elect deity since Sun-
c [ iy. A Government siege of
the city continued yesterday.
and was aggravated by food
and fuel shortages caused b
road Mocks around the city,
held by the rebels.
General Zahirnejad told the
Teliran Times that he was
c• poscd to the peate talks
with the ICurds which began
last week and then colthpsed
after Army units cracked down
on (lie rebels and laid siege to
their positions Inside Mahabad.
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