Word: ahwaz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power," declared one strike leader. "We fought for it with the message of Khomeini in our hearts. We will restore the Koran and Islam to the oilfields. We will not give up the oil of Khuzestan." Says I. Amraie, district manager of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) in Ahwaz: "The Khomeini workers dominate every aspect of the business. The future is now in Khomeini's hands. He is the boss...
Other forms of intimidation have been more direct. School buses full of American children have been stoned. One executive's Cadillac was burned, while an Exxon employee narrowly escaped injury in southerly Ahwaz when a Molotov cocktail was hurled at his car. The entire U.S. community was thrown into its deepest shock two weeks ago by the assassination of Oil Executive Paul Grimm in Ahwaz...
...same time, the government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, who is also the army chief of staff, was using tough methods to break a nationwide oil strike. In Ahwaz, workers were given their choice of going back to their jobs or being fired; by week's end most of the country's 37,000 oil and refinery employees were back at work, and production rose to roughly half the normal output of 6 million...