Dissidents Occupy Iran’s Oslo Embassy for 2 Hours

Iranian dissidents occupied the Iranian Embassy today to protest the Islamic revolutionary government of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Dissidents also protested in West Germany and France.

Eleven unarmed men occupied the embassy in the Norwegian capital of Oslo for more than two hours, and three people were injured, the national news agency NTB said. The 11 surrendered peacefully and were taken to police headquarters for questioning, the agency said.

In Frankfurt, West Germany, eight unarmed Iranians were detained after briefly occupying the offices of Iran Air, the national airline, and distributing leaflets calling for an uprising against the Khomeini government.

An anonymous telephone caller to a news agency later said the eight belonged to the People’s Fedayeen, a group opposed to Khomeini.

Iran Air Offices Attacked

In Paris, a group of Iranian dissidents attacked the Iran Air offices on the Avenue des Champs Elysees, police said.

They shattered windows and left behind tracts denouncing the Khomeini government in the name of the Iranian People’s Fedayeen Guerrillas Organization, with the French initials OGFPI. There were no reports of arrests or injuries.

The Norwegian news agency said banners draped outside the seized Iranian Embassy in Oslo identified the occupying group by the initials OGFPI.

Police cordoned off the area around the embassy, and one person was seen being carried away on a stretcher, the agency reported.

Among those injured during the takeover was Charge d’Affaires Mohammed Hadi Ardebili, but he refused to be taken to a hospital until his children were freed from the building, NTB said. There were no details on the injuries.

Offer to Surrender

The news agency quoted an unidentified Iranian journalist as saying the attackers had offered to surrender if a photographer was first allowed into the building.

It quoted the Iranian journalist as saying the takeover was to demonstrate solidarity with Iranian political prisoners and to protest the export of weapons to Iran.

Although Norway is not known to have been involved in illegal arms sales to Iran, private companies in Sweden, France and Italy are under investigation for sending arms and munitions