Word: khiabani
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chilly gray dawn was just breaking over Tehran as Mousa Khiabani, 35, operational commander of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist guerrilla organization seeking to overthrow the Iranian government, was moving to a new hideout. With him were his pregnant wife Azar Reza'i and Ashraf Rabi'i, the wife of Paris-based Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi, and the Rajavis' year-old son. When Khiabani stepped out of his bulletproof Peugeot, a plainclothes Islamic Guard spotted him and radioed for help. Within minutes hundreds of government security forces converged on the scene...
Shooting began, and when it was over hours later, Khiabani and 21 other Mujahedin were dead. Scores of government forces were also killed or injured. According to witnesses, Khiabani's own seven-man detail of bodyguards managed to hold the government gunmen at bay until the guerrilla leader got back into the car. Another heavily armed Mujahedin squad blasted a corridor through the government forces to provide an escape route for the auto. Khiabani, though wounded, managed to drive off, but an Islamic Guard scored a direct hit on the Peugeot with a Soviet-made RPG-7 antitank rocket...
...continue." He denied government reports of other shootouts with the Mujahedin, saying they were "useless psychological warfare." He also said he had appointed a new commander in chief, but did not divulge his name. Mujahedin sources said, however, that the new chief gave his first order the day after Khiabani's death. "Take no rash retaliatory action," he told his cadres. "This is a revolution, not a street brawl...
...guerrillas, who are said to number 100,000, are commanded in Iran by Mousa Khiabani, who operates from a bunker in Tehran. They keep in touch with walkie-talkies, shortwave radios, "safe" phone lines and even carrier pigeons. Their strength also comes from a 5,000-member intelligence network that has penetrated every level of Khomeini's hierarchy. One example: Massoud Keshmiri, the top government aide who carried a bomb right into a meeting with President Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar, killing them and six others last month...
...erupted in cities as far flung as Bandar Abbas on the gulf and Astara on the Soviet border. As a result, mosques, Islamic Republic Party offices and Revolutionary Guard headquarters throughout the country are heavily fortified. "The reactionary regime has already receded into a bunker mentality," Tehran-based Mousa Khiabani, chief of staff of anti-Khomeini guerrillas, told TIME last week. "We dominate the streets. Khomeini's lackeys cannot even protect themselves, let alone enforce their authority...
| 1 |