Leftist Iranian students seize W. Berlin consulate
August 5, 1981
West Berlin
Leftist Iranian students calling for resistance to the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stormed the Iranian Consulate here and took staff members hostage, but were quickly driven out by police. Freeing six of the consulate staff, police arrested 31 protesters who were members of the leftist Mujahideen guerilla group which supports exiled Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
And in Iran, antigovernment demonstrators riding motorcycles struck twice in the city of Isfahan, killing an official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and damaging a public building, the Pars News Agency rep orted.