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...incident in Tabriz last week was but one of a number of symptoms of a growing restiveness within the Shah's army as its small-scale clashes with the citizenry continue. In Najafabad, located near the industrial city of Isfahan, security forces were reported to have gone on a rampage against political dissidents. In the holy city of Qum, soldiers fired on a group of marchers. In the northeastern town of Mashhad, troops and police burst into a hospital and beat up the staff for having tended injured protesters...
...demonstrations were much more violent in the industrial city of Isfahan, 210 miles south of the capital, where troops first withdrew from the downtown area and then battled for hours to restore order. For two days thereafter, the army staged demonstrations in support of the Shah in several other cities. In a particularly ugly incident, three on-duty soldiers opened fire with automatic weapons in the mess hall of an army camp just two miles from the Shah's Niavaran Palace in north Tehran; six noncommissioned officers were killed and ten wounded in the shooting...
...ISFAHAN, Iran--Two days of peace between the government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and protesters demanding his ouster ended yesterday as government troops fired on rioting crowds in the provincial city of Isfahan, 300 miles south of Tehran...
...government reported that its troops have killed 17 persons and wounded 50 in Tehran and in the Southern city of Isfahan since the latest violence on Friday night...
...earthquake also struck the towns of Isfahan, Kerman, Rafsanjan, and many other towns and villages near the Kaveer Desert...