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TRA~JSLATIONS ON yEAR EAST AN1J NORTH AFRI CA
(FOUO 12/79)
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3 April 1979
TRANSLATIONS ON NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
(FOUO 12/79)
CONT~NTS PAGE
AI.GERIA
Dutch Aid~ Cooperation Reported
(MARCHES TROPICAt1X ET I~DITERBANEENS~ 2 Mar 19) 1
Gae Liquefact~on Plant
Houaing and Univeraity
Electric Power Plant
IRAN
Khomeyai Reported Shocked by Realities
(Jerome Dumoulin; L'E1~RESS, 24 Feb 79) 3
Current Situation in Iran
(Kenizel~3ourad; LE NOWEL OBSER9ATEUR, 12 Mar 79) 6
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ALGERIA
DUTCH AID~ COOPERATION REPORTED
Gas Liquefaction Plant
Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in ~rench 2 Mar 79 p 561
(TextJ In a letter to Parliament deted 20 February, the Dutch minister
of the Economy~ Mr Gijebert Van Aardenne, announced that the Low Co~un-
tries will lend Algeria $125 million to help finance the Araew gas lique-
faction plant if West Germany granta the Algerian authorities a loan of
equal value.
SONATRACH had requested a loasi of 250 million florina ($125 million)
from private Dutch banks. Theae banke would not agree to the loan un-
less the State Enterprise for the Insurance and Financing of Exporte
agreed to cover the riska involved in the operation.
Algeria and the Low Countries are parties to a tentative contract which
providea for the delivery of 4 billion cubic meters of liquefied gas a
year for 20 years, it is recalled by The Hague. This contract, whoae
implementation is to commence in the 1980's, will be definitively aigned
when Algeria has obtained the financing needed to enlarge the Arzex gas
liquefaction plant.
Houaing and Univeraity
Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET I~nITERRANEENS in French 2 Mar 79 p 561
(Text) An agreement was aigned on 22 February in Algiers between the
Algerian national enterprise ECOTEC [National Office for Economic and
Teci~uicel StudiesJ and the Dutch Bredero International company, to create
a temForary "joint and several" group for the purpoae of fully funding
the construction of 2,000 units of housing and the 10,000 student uni-
versity, with its accessory equipment, at Tizi-Ouzou.
Construction of the 2,000 housing unite will start next June and will
be completed in 30 months. Construction of the university atructures -
Will start in January 1980 and be completed in 1984.
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A Dutch bank will finance all the foreign exchange requiremenCe of the
pro~ecte, which are estimated to be 60 percent of their total coet.
We recall at thia time that the Algerien miniater of Housing gnd Construc-
tion had eetablished ae one of hie eeaential policy guidelinee th~ parti-
cipation of foreign enCerpriaea with nationgl enterprisee in the form of
temporery joint and several groupe~
In accordance with this policy, ECOTEC concluded the above-mentioned
agreement with Bredero as part of its ambitioue multi-year plan, which
includea 16~000 houaing unite of the 100,000 unit program to be initiated
in 1979 and aeveral univeraities throughout the country: Univeraity of
Tizi-Ouzou (10,000 studenta), univeraity centers of Sioi-Bel-Abbes and
Batna (4,500 etudenta each)~ and three technological inatitutes at
ConsCantine and Kroub.
Electric Power Plant .
Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 2 Mar 79 p 561
[T~ext] The Dutch Thomassen Holland B.V. company of the Ri~n-Scheldz-
Verolme group has received an order from Algeria for a complete 550 mege-
watt gas turbine electric power plant. The value of the order is 276
million florina. It is Thomasaen's second order from Algexia within a
short time.
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IRAN
lWOMLYNI REPORTED SHOCKEU BY REALITIES
Parie L~EXPRESS in French 24 Feb 79 p 79
[Article by Jerome Dumoulin]
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[Textj Still more than the Tehran leftieta Khomeyni'e No 1 concern is the �
South, where the Toudeh controla the oil workere.
"Being in T~hran theae days," Yasaer Arafat exclaims~ "is for me like being
in Jerusalem." Flanked by Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and Vice Prime
Minister Ibrahim 'Yazdi~ the PLO leader~ beaming, poaea in front of the
Paleetinian flag. A few hourd Iater, he wili be taking poseeasion of the
forner Iaraeli miesion on one of the capita s elegant avenues.
"The Iranian Revolution has completely upset the ar~a's strategic balance,"
Arafat declarea, rendering hamage to "our Iman, Ay;~tollah Ruhollah Khomeyni."
Tuesday he ia making a pilgrimage to Meahed~ Iran's holy city. Paradoxically,
Arafae, who for a long time proclaimed himself a partisan of a aecular
Palestinian atate, is now lining up under the banner of the moat militant
Islam. And, moreover, on the eide nf Iranian Shiism. He thus rieka
stretching his relation~ with Arab governmenta from Iraq to Algeria. But
he ia also weighing the advantage of being able, henceforth, to gamble
betk�een two ailent partnera: Saudi Arabia and Iran. Not to forget a
sup~le~a~ntary benefit: strengthening hia relations with the South LeLano~
Shiites.
The PLO head no longer makea any mystery of the bonda which unite him
to the Tehran revolutionaries. But he hurZs a warning to his Fedayeen's and
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Moud~ahiddin admirerss "One man only~" Ara:at says~ "represents the Iranian
people and a].1 militantsi Ayatollah Khomeyni."
The revolutionary youth will not be aheedled by thes~ nice worde. Too many
thinqs ~re giving it oau~se far anger in the process of etren~thening Khomeyni's
poaer.
First~ the army. The leftists xould likc to see it dismantled from to~~ to bot-
tom and rebuilt on a"popular basis." Next~ the government. "A team of old
_ men~" "the loxer. middle class": the expresaions sre not gre ntle. A Fedayeen -
exclaima, "For the Basargan folloxers and associates~ the revolution ie ter-
minated. Not for us~" Laetly, the media. The militants~ ti~ta time aupported
by the liberals~ are denoancing Sade~h Chotbzadeh~ former spokesman of Neauphle-
le-Chateaii, nox television head. "He is carxying on a ceneorehip xhich is worse
than that of the former regime~" the enploy~es state~ threatening to resume the
strike,
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Contested on their left, Khomeyni and Bazargan alternate u.telding a stick and
holdin~ out a carrot. "If the leftista cause trouble~" the prime minister says~
"I shall crush them." The ayatollah qoes one betteri "I shall not permit an- -
archy." The Imam's propaganda committee blurt out the atrong statement~ "They
are communiats."
In t~he written press~ atill free~ lefttsts~ aommunists~ democrats and ethnic
and reli~ious minorities again find themselves side by side. This is true par-
ticularly in the da!.ly~ AYANDCCAN~ xhose circulation has multiplied in a matter
of Keeks. One of the editors in chief summarizes ita positioni "~le are against
a sin~le party of Cod= xe respect Khomeyni~ bi:t xe aee a court forming around
him leading him~to dictatorship."
The ayatolloh also imoxs hok to unload ballast. In the case of the army~ he _
quickly retracted a certain number of appointments which ~rere contested. He
decided upon a massive pur~e~ particularly the physical liquidation of the gen-
erals most in the public eye in the fora?er regime.
? To appease the Tehran youth~ the government launched the plan of a national
guard: a popular militia xhich xould integrate soldiers~ rfoud~ahiddins~ Fe-
dayins--and their xeapons nox hidden in a safe place.
In the capital~ everythin~ was reopened~ even ~he movies. Tt,e veil is on
the doxnsxinq. Enough to vex the ayatollah.
But. Khomeyni's big concern is elseKhere. In the ~outh. Ir the Ahvaz and
Abadan area the 30~000 oil xorkers have not all gone back to xork. The mem-
bers of the union dominated by the Toudeh Communist Party--?~early a third of
the personnel, ~t is said--are demanding the right to intervene in the opera-
tion of NIOC, the national oil company. In Ahvaz~ a"soviet" of xorkers dis-
missed about 10 technical directors. And the Toudeh is allegedly involved in
the secessionist difficulties in Kurdistan.
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~ Khomeyni ie nxare of the stakea. While condemning the "traitora" xho are car-
ryin~ on tho strikee~ he Aer_ds the oil xorkers a letter xith a paternal and
conciliatory tone. To entico them~ the government leader, xho cannot play the -
- card of wa~;es and dnes not xish to play that of self-management~ ie countir?g
on a renep,otiation of the contracts. "Those Khich are contrary to the inter-
es4.s of the nation xill be canceled~" a high official states.
Mehdi Bazargan appoints HaASan Nazih~ leader of the b~r association and lonlr,-
time foe of the shah~ as head of NIOC. This ~uriet xithout oil experience f.s
~oin~q to restore order in thie atate within a state--namely, NIOC. The ap-
pointment is Nell received in the Tehran headquartere. In the South it is a
different affair. E ven if the xorkere of Agha Jeri~ the moat extensive de-
posit, offer their alleqiance.
"In any case~" one of the national co~::pany's officials statea~ "there 3s una-
nimity within NIOC not to go back to the 6 million barrelg per day level. We
shall not exceed 2 millian." As Mehdi Bazargan puts it~ xhile intentionally
remaining vague~ "The level of our exports will rise in stages."
The r~~::eting of prices on the market xill thua be n~ore than a straw fire.
For ~ndustrial countries the reswnption is again put off indefinitely.
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IRAN
CURRENT SITUATION IN IRAN
Paria LE NOWEL OBSERVATEUR in French 12 Mar 79 p 49
(Article ~y Kenize Mourad: "The Ayatollah's Anathemas"]
[Text] "The ayatollah ia a bulldozer but I am a little car." Thia ia how
Mehdi Bazargan, Iran's prime minister, introduced himself during his in-
~ugural addresa a few weeks ago. Today, people ask themaelvea if the bull-
dozer might not flatten the little car. Everything aeeme to point to that.
in any case. From the holy city of Qoan, ~here he had vithdr~wn in order--
it was thought--to let the proviaional government do ita job, Khomeyni
iasued directives on the way to run the etate and kept up a conatant ~low
of the severeat criticisms, totally sapping tt~e prime miniater's authority.
"You act like one of the ministers of the old regime," he accused him, "You _
are weak, Weaternized, and luxury-minded." In the light of the extceme
nature of these remarke, one might ask oneself what the ayatollab's purpoae
is: to downgrade the present administration and to force it to resign? Or
simply to intimidate it ao that, until the referendum in any case, it will "
toe the line. The ayatollah ae a matter of fact doe~; not like the challenge
which ia emerging increasingly day after day in Iran and which is in the
pro~esa of becoming organized around the National Democratic Front, created
last Tuesday by Maeter M.atin Daftary, Mossadegh's grandaon.
This f.ront representa the big hope of the noncommuniat left. It ralliea
above all the intellectuals and the s~lf-employed profeasional men ~ho have
been fighting for a change but who reject a new dictatorship and it has
sympathy within the government. When, for example, it denounced the trials
that were held b~hind cloaed doors and the au~ary execution of former of-
ficials of the regime--but also of pimps and thieves--it was tacitly backed
by Bazargan who often complained about the "Khomeynistes co~itteea" ~hich
arrested and executed their own chief by firing squad. When it defends the -
rights of women, it ia supported by tbe vast majority of the Iranisn womea.
Although many decided to wepr the veil as a political manifestation against
the Westernization impoaed by the shah, they understand that the choice is
left to each waman. And excesses, such as attacks on women not wearing veils
in the streets, the raids by young men againat girls' high achoola to force
them to wear the veil, the ban on secretaries to go to work in a wide akirt,
their hair blowing in the wind--these are sever~ly criticized.
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Are these excesaea perpeCrated by excesaively zealaus religioue militanCs?
NoC only, unfortunately! Khomcyni--who for a long time had been very evasive
on the Islamic republic and especially on the eCaCt?e of women~-now, thati he ie
in power, apelled out his thinki.ng as followe: "ThE: women musC cover their hair~
the nape of ehe neck, rhe nrms, and the 1ege." On the isaues ot divorce and
pi]~, he made contradictory atatzments--a tacCic which he hae been pursuing
since the atart of the struggle and which enabled him to achieve unanimity,
with each peraon hearing what he or she wanCed to hear.
On the other hand, on the esaential isaue, the isaue of the refexendum which
is to take place on 31 March, the ayat~llah was qu~te clear. In the face of
the d~ng;er repreaented by the National Democratic Front, which triea to modify _
the fol?~wing question: "Are ycu in favor of an Islamic republic?" To read
instead: "t\re you in fa~~or of an Islamic democratic republic?" He l.~urled
anathemd. "Voting for a democratic islam~c republic would be a sin becauae
the wcrd 'democracy' is a Weatern notion."
On that ec~re, he publicly disavowes t~ie head of government, Mahdi Bazargan
who ~:oined +:he te~ "democratic Islamic republic," when Khomeyni was atill
in Paris. Democracy ob~;lously is a notion Che ayatollah doea not like much.
Today he :.s the'.! ~ master of Iran. Why should he be stuhborn and renounce his
vision of a~ure and tough Islamic republic? But perhaps he underestimates
his fello~~ cit.izens from whom he had been awgy for 15 years. If he forces
Mehdi Bazargan to reaign, while the latter is presently the only link between
the different tendencies, Khomeyni riske finding himself confronted with ~
an even tougher opposition. _
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