Date: 6 Dey 1358 (December 27, 1979)
Location: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan
Incident Description:
A large quantity of weapons and ammunition sent from outside the country to Tabriz intended to be used for creating unrest was discovered and confiscated near Oshnavieh. The seizure included:
698 Mauser rifles, 520 Brablund pistols, 240 Kalashnikovs, 90,000 rounds of ammunition, 22 RPG-7 launchers, 22 boxes of ammunition, 1,000,000 Iraqi dinars, and more than 22 million tomans in cash.
Sources:
Jomhouri-e Eslami newspaper, December 29, 1981, p.1