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very well He also still pays the military, hoping he canbuy them off.

There are arms everywhere now No one goes outat night in Teheran The city i ruined Khomeini paysoff whoever he had around him

It is one giant welfare state. With all that moneyfrom oil, there is no economy The state hands outmey to the unemployed, and there are a lot ofunemployed Everybody is talking about Madani Theythink he will run the country.

Q: What about the opposition to the Islamic regime, arethey preparing for a ght?A: When I was there I went to a numbe of placeswhere I though I might nd some of my friends in theleadership of the National Front. They were nowhreto be found. In a certain sense Tehran is like a ghosttown. You don't see the Mujahedine or the Fedayeen,you do't see the Front. They have ed I heard thatatin-Daari ed the country. Nassan Nazih ed upito the north. That seems to be where a lot of teopposition is now, mainly in Azerbaijan. Shariatmadariwill protect the opposition If civil war breaks out, Ithik it will come from the northern provinces If youtake te Kurds, the Turkomans, the Azerbaijanis, plusthe various guerrilla groups that have broken withKhoeini, that is a fairly big force At some point Ireally believe that t simmerin ghting going onagainst he slamic Guard will blow up. The only thingthat worries people over there is what will the UnitedStates do and what will the Soviets do? We remembr6 when te United States and the Soviets dividedte country it could e much more serious this time

Q: hie yo were ter, did you see any renewed effortsto bgin conomic dvlpmnt?A: No, sa sutn construction project afterantr Ty ar st as Banisar (assistant economicsinister.) s y lok like big carcasslming or t rzn ryone is unemployd.T Rvolutioa Cl cannt dcide what it wantsT only on w ss t nw is Banisadr, who isring to trn Iran int t apuchan model, backto t lan an brai n t cities Iran is not asall country ou at sting like that So allt litrat ol, rossals, w are now exils, wehave no country I coulnt stay tre I have a vision

of what I want my countr t e want development,eucation. But nver wit tis eini i power Hewill stroy Iran. I bli ill provoke a long andly war

's sctSAVMs Sa' Like SAV AK, the feared secrt svic tat rul raunder the regime of the depos a, t scret liof the Ayatollah Khoini av n ien fr r tcarry out their activitis inside the rrs of t itStats. According to ighly placed itllign surc,exiles here, and law enforcemnt ocials, the shaintelligence service of Khomeinith SAV AMA, for"National Information and Scurity Orgaizatin Iran has an extnsive presnce in North Aiaamong both stunts and businssn. May xilopponents of th Khomeini regi a sai to li ifear of harassment and vn assassination by agts the mullas

Acording to informd sourcs, te Amrian erations of the SAV AMA are run irctly ut f t oces of the ranian Embassy in Wasington, DC.,and its onsulats, patilaly San Francis. Cnating dirctly it t Ebassy a is ials is tUS. Indianaplisas Musli Stnt Assiati

which incls ag its mmrsip many pmeini Iranian stnts

Even mo alarng is tat unrs of frocials of t SAV AK organization, whi wa sposedly dismantl ar t ii ta February, ha siply ld into t stuct tnew SAVAMA.

Several US. agncis, inlu t FBI, t JtDepartment, t CA, an the migratn an atralization Servic are reportedly llaorating, scrtl,with the SAVAMA

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At a Los Angeles press confrence Oct 6 the FionEnergy Foundation, a private, nonpt scintic istitution, calle for an istiatin i Californa itthe activitis of t scall sli Stnts Assiation (MSA). Niclas Btn, Stwest corinatfor the FEF, all fr t instiati aftr a attempt disrption f an Ot. 6 fru spnsr the foundation at t Unirsity lt tl ar tUniversity of Sthrn Caliria.

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At tat vnt, according to Bnton, svral undrdfollowrs of Ayatolla Komini from t MSA, whowr givn "fals rumors tat an agnt of th Sah'was scduld to spak, convrgd on t forum andtid to prvnt its taking plac. In its publicity fr thvnt, t FEF ad issud lats comparing Khominito Kampuca's Pol Pot, and ty attackd th "anti

tcn?logy orintation of t Komini rgim, cargg tat Komini was bringing about a dark agin Iran.

According to t FEF, t call for an invstigationinto t MSA originatd from "rports of studnts tatt Iranian consulat in San Francisco playd a rol incoordinating t soutrn alifornia-wid mobilization.

"aus for an invstigatio includs t fact thatt nw ad of t Iranian scrt srvic, tSAVAMA, Mustafa amran, was up until last yart lading organizr in alifornia of Iranian studntgroups, said Mr. Bnton. "W av bn told tat h

workd undr t dirction of Univrsity of aliforniaat Brkly Profssor Hamid Algar, a British subjctwo uss an assumd Muslim nam.

n fact, t vnts in alifornia wr only a dry runfor a similar mobilization on t East oast whicbrougt undrds of fanatic studnts into Nw ork tosout "Dat to t Sa! outsid th Nw ork?ospital wr t Sa is supposdly undrgoing mdcal tratmnt.

Tat mobilization ld dirctly to the sizure of thU.S. Embassy in Tran tat was bgun on Nv.

According to Ianian sourcs in Washington, thstudnt dmonstraton was organizd and ld by mmbrs of Ayatolla Komini's scrt polic. Th IranianEmbassy in Wasington quitly publicizd and nancda tlpon numbr wic Iranian MSA mmbrs, whowantd to sout against th Shah, could call for information. Tat numbr, in turn, rfrrd callrs to tMSA ocs at Amrican Univrsity.

And in Iran, atolla Khalkhali, who is th headof t Muslim Brothrhood there, issud an ocial callfor studnts to dmonstrate in New or ainst theSa.

Khomeini regie:a NATO puppeMost Amricans do not know tat vn during ttrrorist occupation of t u.s. mbassy in Tran bIranian scrt polic agnts disguisd as studnts bginning Nov. t Unitd Stats continud to snd astead stram f u.s. wapons, ammunition, and sparparts to t outlaw Iranian military! But tis fact wasadmittd by t Stat Dpartmnt and rportd by tWall Street Joal.

T facts bind tis startling xpos, dtaild int following rport, conclusivly documnt tat in fact

th Unitd Stats and Grat Britain ar fast buildingup a powrful armd forc in Iran that, in t narfutur, will b linkd to arby Oman and otr Arabstats of t Prsian Gulf in wat t Anglo-Amricansop wil b t krnl of a nw "Middl East TratyOrganization. Among t various political gurs ofprsnt Iran, two stand out as t cif actors in tisdrama Dfns Ministr Mustafa hamran, a scrtivgur who is rputd to b an innr mmbr of thus-hu Islamic volutionary ouncil; and AdmiralAhmd Madani, t commandr of t Iranian Navyand govrnor of Kuzstan, Iran's oil-rich suthrnprovinc Along with Forign Ministr Ibraim azdi,

ths two military mn ar mrgin as th strongmanaxis that since Sptmbr, has bn t ruling forc inIran.

In 1978, Zbigniw Brzzinski and yrus Vancsupportd t Britis intllignc opration tat toppldt Sa on t conviction tat a strong Islamic fundamntaist rgim, whic would strngthn t forcsof

th Muslim Brothrhood throuout t rgion,

mht srve as a bulwark against th Sovit Union inthe Middl East.

Th London Economist in its Oct. 0 issu, carrida quit rvaling artic calld, "ort th ropaganda, whic ad tis to say

Iranian lft wingrs hav lon prdictd thatAyatollah Khomini's rgim, dspit its antiAmrican propaganda, would vntually mas Amrica's ally. Thir prdictions look likthey're coming tru .. . . Th rcnt xrciss of thIanian Navy in th Gulf suggst that Khomini'sIran could mrg onc again as th slf-styldliceman of th Gulf, kping an eye on unrliablArbs he ayatollah's armd fors ar still, bas-

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