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For the first time since the 1953 coe notoric sha ban the notoricus Sha ban, brainless", helped the arty overthrow Mossadegh's Govern gangs of thugs have been brought onto the streets to attach demonstrations meetings of known dissidents According to the Writers Association of fran, an illeza organisation of dissident writers and poets, the number of people be as high as 10,000. A mumber of people are believed to have been thousands, have been injured, many of them seriously.
The massive protests of the las two weeks were sparked off by a police stack on a meeting Aryamehr University in Tehran during the Shah's visit to Wash ington. The meeting was one of a senes of cultural evenings which dissident Iranian wriners and poets have been allowed to hold since About 7000 people had gathtrod at ibe university to listen to a Open opposition to the Iranian dictatorship, in the form of mass meetings, demonstrations and university strikes, has suddenly escalated during recent weeks to levels not known Frightened by these developments, the Iranian regime has decided to abandon efforts to patch up its human rights image, and has launched massive reprisals on a scale unknown since the massacres of June 1963. If is probably that this comes straight after conclusion of a new arms deal with the United States.
There has been a virtual blackout on the wire services from Tehran, and only one or two papers have carried uny information. Most of our information has not appeared in leading dissident Soltanpoor. While the meeting was in progress 2,000 people who could not get into the ball and hac the police who then locked the other 5,000 inside the people inside cb hall eventually released, they immed. and started to Tehran University, Their ranks quickly swelled to over 10,000 PIRATES Busloads of plain-clothed thugs armed with hatons and knuckle dasters, backed by uniformed scene and attacked the peaceful demonstrators. According to the Wnter Association, two demon strators were killed, many more were injured and truck loads of demonstrators were arrested and taken to an unknown destination, In response to this sudent tenrescalatives from al over the country called for a general strike in all the univer sities. The call seems to have beer very successful and has led lo thi closure of most Iranian universities, despite further attacks La number of universities The protests have also sprea outside the universities. Much of the baazar in Tehran is reported to have been closed as the result of a the sans. There has been a report of a demonstration at Karad WE BECA Tehran. past has number of major TACILE HOTECTS The Writers' Association ol poel, said dissident writers and intellectuals have been physically attacked ou Tea of then, Hoena Netsh and le'mat Mirzadeh, are believed t hall.
RESISTED They had gone to Aryame University lo march towards universiry and protest about the bao imposed on further meetings at the universicy when they were arrested by the polios, They were taken toa police station, beelen up and released. As tbey were leaving kidnapped by plain clothed thugs hauled into SUSIE HE LILY WHEEL HAT besten to the point of death The famour novelist and play WHEEL LIONEL LOSSCIE was visited is bis home by Parviz Sabeti, the head of the security branch of SAVAK, who told him that if be uttered anotber astack word of protest he and his friends ahroad would be run under a bus'.
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