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Word: najafabad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Search for New Faces | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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