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FromAPandUPI
In a sharp attack on the other
"satanic" superpower, Iran accused the
Soviet Unioxi yesterday of supplying
arms and satellite spy photos to Kur-
dish rebels warring against Ayatallah
Ruhollah Khomeini's troops in the
mountains of western Iran, Tehran
Radio reported.
The Iranians demanded again that
Moscow cut back its embassy staff in
Tehran, charging that the Soviets were
tying to subvert Khomeini's
revolutionary regime.
THE NEW DIPLOMATIC offensive
against the Kremlin comes as the
clergy-led, staunchly anti-communist
faction among Iran's Islamic
revolutionaries is consolidating its
power in Tehran.
At the same time, Iran's new prime
minister, former high school teacher
Mohammad Ali Rajai, consulted with
various groups of hard-liners on the
selection of a Cabinet that will amost
certainly drop Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh and other moderates from
government.
There have been no assurances from
Tehran that the hostage question will be
debated quickly. The 52 Americans
spent their 285th day in captivity
yesterday.
THE NEW anti-Soviet tirade occurs
in a letter from Ghotbzadeh to his
Soviet counterpart, Andrei Gromyko.
Tehran Radio said it was a reply to a
July 9 letter from Gromyko.
That letter presumably responded to
Ghotbzadeh's demand July 3 that the
Kremlin cut its 40-diplomat Tehran
embassy staff by more than half. Just
two days earlier, on July 1, the
Iranians had expelled a Soviet diplomat
for alleged espionage in Tehran and
announced the closing of the Iranian
consulate in Leningrad and one of two
Soviet consulates in Iranian cities out-
side Tehran.
In the latest letter, Ghotbzadeh
reiterates Iran's hostility toward the
United States, but then added, "Upfor-
tunately, you, too, have proved in prac-
tice that you are no less satanic than the
U.S.A. We cannot acquiesce in your
provocations in the border areas."
The Iranian minister focused
specifically on alleged Soviet aid to
rebels in Kurdistan, the mountainous
western region where guerrillas have
been fighting for autonomy from
Khomeini's Persian-dominated regime.
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NEW DELHI, India (AP)-A high-
powered Soviet delegation has arrived
in the. Afghan capital of Kabul, in-
dicating a major rckiew of Soviet ac-
tivity in the war-torn Asian nation may
be under way, a Western diplomatic
source said yesterday.
The strongest indication of the visit
from Moscow is the establishment of a
large mobile communications center at
the official Afghan guest house for
visiting dignitaries, said the diplomat,
who asked not to be identified.
ANTENNAS FROM the com-
munications center, located near the
French embassy in downtown Kabul,
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were clearly visible on Tuesday, the
source said.
At present, there is no firm in-
dication whether the delegation is
militaty, civilian, or both, the source
said.
The last time such a mobile com-
munications center popped up in Kabul
was "in late November or early
December," the source recalled.
ABOUT THREE WEEKS later,
beginning on Christmas Day, the
Kremlin poured an estimated 80,000
Soviet troops into Afghanistan. The
troops backed the ouster of -one pro-
Soviet leader and presided over the in-
stallation of another, and fanned out
across the rugged countryside to help
Afghan forces battle the anti-Marxist
Moslem guerrillas.
The source indicated the Kremlin
may be unhappy with the way the battle
against the rebel insurgents has gone.
Soviet and loyal Afghan troops still
control Kabul with an iron fist, the
source said. Jalalabad to the east,
Afghanistan's second largest city, also
is under government control, and
Soviet armored columns own the major
roadways.
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