UPI
Published: October 15, 1981
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 14— Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian leader, said today that Iran had to work harder to enhance its image abroad so that it could export its revolution. He spoke in a broadcast as the Teheran radio reported the execution of 20 more dissidents.
”We have been near zero in our propaganda abroad,” Ayatollah Khomeini said. ”We must make unofficial visits aside from the official ones. If we want to export this revolution, we must do something so that the people themselves take government in their own hands, so that the people from the so-called third stratum come to power.”
The radio report said firing squads had executed dissidents in Resht on the Caspian Sea, Ilam and Shiraz in southern Iran and in Turbat-i-Haidari, in Khorasan Province.