Six Months After the Return of Khomeini, Iran Still Trembles With Internal Unrest

          
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          Months After the Return of Khomeini,
          Iran Still Trembles With Internal Unrest
          TEI N , Iron (AP) Slx months after
          Ayatollah RnhOliah Khomeini retunied from
          exile to lead an uprising that toppled the
          1ang entrenched monarchy, Iran is trem
          bUns from unrest amass Its ethnic mlnari
          ties seeking autonomy and opposition poIltl
          cal groups forced underground again
          The press, which enjoyed a brief period
          of freedom after Shah Mohammad Reza
          Pahiavi was ousted In February, has been
          stifled again and only publications that ad
          here to a strict Islamic lIne are permitted
          At least 44 publIcations were closed down
          when earlier this month a law banned cnti
          clam of religious and government leaders
          and the Islamic revolution.
          The provisional government of Prime
          Minister Mebdi Bazargan, a former univer
          sity professor, has been effectively emascu
          lated by the Moslem clergy, whIch holds the
          reins of power
          Islamic laws already have been impl&
          mented, endangering the civil law system
          that took years to develop.
          Islamic revolutionary tnbunals headed
          by Moslem clerics have executed mare than
          450 offIcials of the ousted monarchy, alleged
          prostitutes, adulterers and homosexuals and
          people convicted of being “counter revolu
          tionarles,”
          Leftist Guerrilla Groups
          I ftist guerrilla groups such as the Pee-
          pies Fedayeen and the Mojabedeen have
          been effei'tively hlppe 4 of their power and
          their headquarters have been occupied by
          goveniment assigned revolutionary militia
          Young politicians have been forced Into
          hiding for fear of imprisonment because of
          their opposition to the Increasingly militant
          policies of Ayatollah Khomeini and hIs sup-
          porters.
          Only the Islamic Republic Party, founded
          and supported by the Moslem mullahs in the
          wake of the February uprising, is free to
          pursue Its objectives, Political opposition
          groups believe that the growing influence of
          the clergy and the Islamic Republic Party
          Indicates that Iran is quickly becoming a
          one party state.
          I ftist and rightist workers, however,
          have disrupted production In many Indus
          tries, Including the Important oil industry,
          demanding a voice In management and a
          more equitable share of profits
          Oil Export Earnings
          Iran is expected to earn about $24 billion
          from 10 months of crude oil exports In 1979,
          $2 billion more than in the last year of full
          production In 1977.
          About two million ethnic Arabs in oil rIch
          Khuzestan could bring the nation to Its
          knees by paralyzing the oil Industry, The Ar-
          abs seeking self rule fnr the pravinro ni
          ready have officials worrying about keeping
          oIl installations protected against sabotage.
          Ethnic Arabs In early July claImed respon
          siblllty for damaging a pipeline leading to
          Abadan on the Persian Gulf, where the
          world's biggest oil processing plane Is lo-
          cated Refining operations were Impaired
          for 10 days until the pipeline could be re-
          paired.
          In western Iran, the autonomy-minded
          Kurds are on the verge of civil war against
          the central government in Tehran More
          than 1,000 Kurds and government forces
          have been killed in bloody fighting in Kur
          distan province since March
          Kurdish Uprising
          The Kurdish uprising is considered one of
          the most serious threats to the Islamic re-
          gime, whose attempts so far to surpress the
          Kurds have been mostly unsuccessful
          Ayatollah Khomeini yesterday warned
          the Kurds and Arabs against further vio-
          lence and told his own troops that they will
          face revolutionary courts If they disobey or
          ders to crush the uprisings, Kurdish rebels
          reportedly killed an army commander and
          more than 20 troops yesterday in heavy
          fighting near the towil of Saqez in northwest-
          ern Iran.
          Despite the widening split of political
          forces and the growing threat of greater un
          rest among the ethnic minontles, Ayatollah
          Khomeini's popularity doesn't appear to
          have suffered as greatly as many of his op
          ponents contend,
          But slowly, many Iranians are becoming
          disenchanted with the revolution and Its ob-
          jective as Islamic laws Impinge on their
          personal freedoms, unemployment grows
          and thousands of technicians leave the coun-
          try every week to escape the chaos and un
          rest.
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