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...weeks ago, in one of their more spectacular raids, guerrillas surrounded an Islamic Guard training base at Sardasht, in Kurdistan, and attacked it with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. More than 30 guards died in the assault. Yet another incident underlines the seriousness of what amounts to an undeclared civil war in Iran: early this month, Mehdi Mohammadi Gilani, son of Khomeini's chief Islamic justice, Ayatullah Mohammadi Gilani, was killed in an armed clash with the guards. He was the third and last Gilani son to die fighting the regime that his father protects...
...fool the Islamic Guards, Khomeini's vigilantes, the Mujahedin spread rumors that Banisadr was hiding in Kurdistan. Actually, Banisadr spent the entire time in Tehran. He was able to move around the capital, not exactly at will but frequently, sometimes in a small car, sometimes in taxis. He wore no disguises, although he did give up his glasses, and only shaved his mustache for his escape. Occasionally, he was recognized, but no one reported him to the police. Most of the time, however, he traveled without attracting any attention...
...Islamic high school in Tehran describe Raja'i as "inflexible" and "humorless," qualities that he appears to have brought with him into political life. He showed an awesome highhandedness as Minister of Education, for example, by disbanding the entire provincial school system in the rebellious western region of Kurdistan and firing 12,000 teachers. His reason: Communists had allegedly infiltrated the schools...
...parliamentary seats in the May 9 voting, the results of which were announced only last week. Banisadr's supporters gained a mere 41 seats, while an assortment of independent mullahs, liberal democrats and nationalists won 71. Undecided are 28 seats, which mostly belong to two provinces-Kurdistan and Khuzistan-torn by civil war and political unrest...
...militant leftists are all fighting in Kurdistan alongside the Kurdish Democratic Party (K.D.P.), which has been leading a determined rebellion against the Tehran government for more than a year. Bitter fighting last week left 1,500 Kurds, most of them civilians, and 500 government soldiers dead, prompting Khomeini to declare in an angry national radio broadcast that "Kurdistan must be combed and purged of all the antiregime elements...