Muslim march
NZPA-Reuter Teheran About 4000 demonstrators have marched through Teheran, the Iranian capital, calling for an Islamic revolution in neighbouring Iraq. They were led by six hooded men said by demonstrators to be Iraqi religious leaders.
The march to the Iraqi Embassy was called to protest against an Iraqi air raid last week on Kurdish border villages in Iran, in which six persons were killed. Most of the slogans in the
demonstration, however, referred to Iraq’s internal politics. The crowd chanted that the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny, was also the Iraqi people’s leader, and that the Iraqi President (Mr Ahmed Bakr) was their enemy. Iranian officials have also accused Iraqis of supplying arms to autonomy-seeking Arabs in the Gulf province of Khuzestan during heavy fighting between them and Persian militia earlier this month.
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Press, 13 June 1979, Page 8
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