Violence Grows in Iran Crackdown
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whipping up sectarian violence against Kurds Many hundreds have been killed in the last two weeks in bloody clashes in Iranian Kurdistan as well as in the Turkoman region in the north.
Most reports say clashes were instances of communal religious violence between Shi'ite (the majority in Iran) and Sunnite muslims most Kurds and Turkomans belonging to the latter branch of (slam).
It seems clear, however, that the religious attacks on the Kurds and Turkomans were headed by Khomeini supporters and were being used by the central government against Iran's national liberation movements in circumstances where the Shah's broken army is no longer a serviceable instrument of repression.
Nonetheless army tanks were reportedly also used last week against the Kurds.
The anti-Kurdish violence can only have strengthened the resolve of the Kurdish masses to fight for their national rights.
Demands for minority and national rights have also become more insistent both from Baluchıstan iwnich straddies Iran's border with Pakistan) and from sections of the Arab minority.
But the growing wave of national and minority feeling against the Khomeini/Bazargan regime is not the only challenge it faces.
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