Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 31, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba It m Iran claims planning attack in Gulf antigovernment unrest linked to invasion soviet made tanks of the iraqi army move Forward toward the iranian City of Delful recently Leeafton a top iranian government official claimed yesterday that the United states is planning an attack in the persian Gulf and suggested iranian islands inthe wests vital Oil waterway would be the we have Learned that the United states intends to attack the persian Gulf under various govern ment spokesman Behzad Nabavi told a news conference in his re Marks were reported by the official iranian news Agency the chaotic situation in the Region will possibly provide the necessary said who also serves As minister of state for Cabinet affairs and Heads Iran american hostage negotiating no specifics he did not specifically say where the plans to nor did he name any source for the but he implied that present antigovernment disorders in Iran Caspian sea towns facing the soviet Border in the North May be designed to set the stage for an american invasion of Iran from the persian Gulf in the the disorders were reported in the Caspian towns of Bandage Anzal and the current internal activity is probably intended to prepare the grounds for external Nabavi said in answer to a question on whether there is any link Between the disturbances in the Caspian sea caviar Belt and a rumoured attack on iranian islands in the persian world Nabavi noted that both the aborted Mission to fescue the 52 hostages in Iran last april and the sep tember outbreak of the which Iran claims was instigated by the were preceded by internal troubles in Tehran radio before the april 24 fescue fighting was reported in Iran North West province of Kurdistan with accounts of hundreds of autonomy seek ing kurd killed in iranian air Force before the War erupted there were reports of government clashes with unidentified counterrevolution Aries near the iraqi at the same Iran ordered the soviets to shut Down their consulate in the North Ern Caspian town of Nabavi said reports on the alleged attack might just be psychological warfare although our people and armed forces should be and Are fully prepared to meet any Iran on monday blamed the Caspian coast disorders on groups safeguard ing Washington capitalist interests and pro Eastern an apparent reference to marxist and Kur dish opponents of Iran clergy led islamic revolutionary a Tehran radio commentary said the Caspian coast troubles were aimed at opening a second front to Force the dispatch of iranian military reinforce ments to troubled areas in the North rather than the War front with Iraq in the iraqi and iranian Mili tary communiques released the 100th Day of the reported heavy fighting flaring in the recently invaded iranian province of where Iran claimed to have recaptured the sudava Heights and bad Dehahn Axis from Iraq backed kurdish a statement from Iran High com Mand warned villagers in Kurdistan against helping the iraqi invaders or counter revolutionaries of the outlawed kurdish democratic Iran has accused Iraq of arming and fund ing the kurd so they can proclaim a breakaway kurdish 95 killed in a War communique broadcast by Baghdad Iraq claimed its forces killed 95 iranian soldiers during the last 24 hours and that it had lost 10 of its it said two iranian helicopter gun ships were shot Down near capital of Oil Rich Khz Stan and a third in in the occupied iranian town of Qasir five Kilometres from the Iran Iraq Border on a major Road leading to Baghdad 200 Kilometres to the an iraqi commander told reporters that iranian troops will never fight their Way Back Iraq has offered to withdraw from Iran if Tehran recognizes Baghdad sovereignty Over the Shatt Alarab is Iraq Only link to the a line Down the Middle of the Shatt served As the Border Between the two countries before the Iran has Happy Mew year from an did Friend t t 1 err ;