Kurds Accuse Khomaini of Imitating Shah: 70 Reported Killed in Fighting Between Rebels, Iran Forces

          
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          Kurds Accuse
          KhomainI of
          mitating Shah
          70 Reported Kifled
          in Fighting Between
          Rebe s, fran Forces
          TEHRAN Iran Ctgi - Kurdish ead-
          em today charged the Islamic
          government with following ruthless
          policies hke those of the deposed
          monarchy and declared the Ayatollah
          Ruho ah Khomaini ‘cannot a lence
          their fight for autonomy,
          ‘The on y dif erence (between the
          two regimes) is that during the Pah
          labi regime, they did not kill innocent
          people so shamelessly” said Kanm
          Hesami, an official of the Kurdish
          Democatic Patv, referring to the
          deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pah
          lavi,
          The religious leaders shou d un-
          derstand tha they cannot silence the
          masses with their forces,” said Mesa
          ml, a party central committee mem-
          ber in a ala ement read ver the ele
          phone from restive Kurdistan pro-
          vince
          The open defiance of Khomaini's
          authority caine as the government
          said 70 people were reported killed in
          new fighting in Kurdistan bctseeen
          revolutionar forces and the Kurds,
          Khomaini led the revolution which
          deposed the shah in February. Under
          the shah's rule, asp ations for Kur-
          dish su onoiny were checked by s
          strong military presence.
          In the capital Khomain ‘s revs u-
          tion continued to mete o t pun oh
          ment to transgressors of his stern Is-
          larrnc code, with new executions and
          whipping-,
          Iran's crude-oil exports, mean-
          while dipped below 1 million barrels
          a day following bad weather condi
          tiona at Kharg Island n the Persian
          Gulf where giant tankers load up, a
          reliable National Iranian Oil Co.
          source said
          The source however said this was
          temporary and to be expected this
          time of year when strong winds wh p
          up high seas making loading opera
          tions extremely difficult, He said be
          cause of this, storage tanks at Kharg
          were filled to capacity forcing pro
          duction in the oil fields to taper off.
          Tehran Radio said revolutionary
          guards reported killing 80 rebel in
          mopping up operations near the Kur-
          dish capital of Sanandaj identifying
          them as members of the on lawed
          Kurdioh Democratic Party and “Corn
          munist supporters of the Pecp e a
          Fedayeen guerrillas,”
          Press reports said more than 100
          counterrevolutionaries” also were
          arrested in Sanandaj and that “other
          counte evolutionary elements in
          Kurdistan are be'ng sought”
          The icicitije Rnpubloo ir, tiio
          paper of the fundamentalist Iclamic
          Republican Party said those arrested
          were members of the Kurdish Demo-
          cra i Party, which Khomaini banned
          last weekend, the People's Fedayeen
          and other leftist groups
          Meanwhile a married woman was
          executed today in the northern town
          of Behshal 'ir for having illicit relations
          with a man Her lover received 100
          lashes in pull c the official Pars news
          agency reported
          A second execution of an official
          of the shah's regime was reported in
          central Iran
          Pars also reported that three men
          were giveu 105 lashes each in Ker-
          manshali, wester'i Iran, for drinking
          alcoholic beverages and three were
          given 50 lashes each for gambling,
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