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...This is the month of blood. Khomeini will fall." Chanting that refrain, throngs of young men and women opposed to the repressive theocratic regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini began marching in the streets of Tehran one morning last week. Acting on government orders to "exterminate the heathens," members of the Islamic Guards quickly went after the protesters. But the Guards were trapped by leftist Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas who had positioned themselves on rooftops along the streets. The government conceded that 36 Islamic Guards were killed in the ensuing battle, which raged over a 6-sq.-mi. area for more...
...urban shootout was the latest escalation in the well-organized Mujahedin's struggle to topple Khomeini. It demonstrated that the guerrillas have retained their command structure, organizational efficiency and firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of the government have been executed since deposed President Abolhassan Banisadr and Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi escaped to France in July. This kind of bloodbath, Rajavi declared last week, will not deter his guerrillas. Said he: "The Resistance is prepared to pay the heaviest price possible to liberate Iran from the shackles...
...Amir Zekrgoo, age 24 and Siazash Khagavi, age 26--who have paid their bonds of $1500--were arrested after an intensive investigation into the fight that involved a pro-Khomeini group breaking into a meeting of anti-Khomeini students. Ashtrays, coffee pots and chairs were thrown and one student was injured, KU police said...
...vice chancellor for student affairs said the Iranian Student Association (ISA), the anti-Khomeini group that held the meeting, must pay $100 for the damages to the Union, where the clash occurred...
...stalemate is the result of a major miscalculation by Saddam. He attacked not only because he coveted the shared estuary but also because he wanted to appear to be the emerging leader of the Arab world. In addition, he was infuriated by the repeated calls by Khomeini to his fellow Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq, who form 55% of the country's population, to overthrow their President. Saddam was convinced that Iran, swept by revolution, would be unable to resist an Iraqi attack. But the war became one cause in which the multifarious factions of Iran could unite...