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Iran’s Kurdish city under de facto martial law




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The United States are training 20 thousand Kurds in Iraq, in the camps arranged in the territories under the control of Jalal Talabani. The training is aimed at involving the units of Kurd soldiers in the struggle against the Irani regime.

According to the CNN-Turk, the trainings are carried out with the participation of the Kurd fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which is considered a terrorist organization in Turkey.

CNN-Turk reported about the termination of the first stage of training. According to the TV channel, the officers of the Talabani guard are involved in the trainings. 500 Kurd fighters have already finished military training and crossed the border of Iran . They allegedly have delivered control blows on three objective points on the border of Iran .
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Iran’s Kurdish city under de facto martial law
Thu. 21 Jul 2005

Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 – The Kurdish city of Mahabad, north-west Iran, was brought under de facto martial law as the paramilitary police, the Revolutionary Guards, and plainclothes agents of the secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, moved in to take control of the city after a week of unrest and deadly clashes between residents and local security forces.

The move came after extra police reinforcements brought in from neighbouring towns to put down the ongoing anti-government protests failed to restore calm in the city.

Anti-government demonstrations and unrest in the mainly Kurdish cities and towns in western Iran have alarmed the authorities. Protests and clashes have been reported in Bonab, Sanandaj, Orumieh, Naqadeh, and Miandoab.

In Mahabad, the city’s main stadium, the local radio and television headquarters, and the Central Post Office have been commandeered as temporary bases for security forces and troops.

Heavy police presence has been reported at every major junction, square, and highway in and around Mahabad. A large number of policemen and undercover agents have been patrolling the area around Heyvanat Square, where much of the hit-and-run clashes took place.

Many of those arrested by security agents were being taken to the nearby city of Orumieh for interrogation, according to Mahabad residents.

A demonstration started on Wednesday evening in the nearby town of Piranshahr in support of “the resistance by the people of Mahabad”. People there chanted slogans against the Iranian regime. The protest lasted for several hours and at least 10 people were arrested, eye-witnesses said.

The mass protests were sparked by the cold-blooded murder of a young Kurdish man, Shovan Qaderi, who had been involved in recent anti-government demonstrations in Mahabad. Security forces shot the unarmed political activist at point blank, tied his body to a Toyota jeep and dragged him in the streets “to teach a lesson” to the local people.

Since then, protests have been continuing every day. At least one local police commander was killed and several hundred people have been arrested during the numerous hit-and-run clashes and house-to-house raids.

Seyyed Maarouf Samadi, the governor of Mahabad, said on Wednesday that reinforcements had been brought in to help “in the interrogation of suspects”. He added that intelligence obtained by the agents would be transmitted to their headquarters in Tehran for evaluation.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2925


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Dividing the Arabs is the same strategy Bush has been trying in the Persian Gulf Island Dispute.
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Where the details of the operation with the participation of Azerbaijanis against Iran are being considered.
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To head off this threat of a Shi'ite clergy-driven religious movement, the US has, according to Asia Times Online investigations, resolved to arm small militias backed by US troops and entrenched in the population to "nip the evil in the bud".

Asia Times Online has learned that in a highly clandestine operation, the US has procured Pakistan-manufactured weapons, including rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, ammunition, rockets and other light weaponry. Consignments have been loaded in bulk onto US military cargo aircraft at Chaklala airbase in the past few weeks. The aircraft arrived from and departed for Iraq.

The US-armed and supported militias in the south will comprise former members of the Ba'ath Party, which has already split into three factions, only one of which is pro-Saddam Hussein. They would be expected to receive assistance from pro-US interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord.
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