BRIEF ON IRAN No. 179 Wednesday, May 31, 1995 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran 3421 M Street NW #1032 Washington, DC 20007 Iraq's Aziz Meets Iranian Exile Leader, Reuters, May 30 Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz met Massoud Rajavi, leader of the exiled Iranian opposition Muhjahideen Khalq, a Mujahideen statement said on Tuesday. The statement said Aziz offered his condolences to Rajavi over the killing of two senior Mujahideen women members in Baghdad two weeks ago. It said the two officials exchanged views "on a number of issues" in the three-hour meeting on Monday. No details were given. On May 17, gunmen fired at a Mujahideen vehicle in Baghdad, killing two senior members and wounding a third. The Mujahideen, which opposes the Tehran government, blamed what it called "terrorist diplomats" in the Iranian embassy in Baghdad. It urged the Iraqi government to shut down the embassy and bring the attackers to justsice. Aziz's meeting with Rajavi -- who is based in Iraq -- came just days after a visit by an Iranian official to Baghdad which Tehran said could lead to solving of outstanding issues between the two former war foes. Iran has made settlement of their differences conditional on Baghdad's curbing of Mujahideen activities in Iraq. The Mujahideen have military camps close to the Iranian border and their military arm, the National Liberation Army of Iran, is equipped with tanks, armoured personnel carriers and helicopter gunships. The Mujahideen statement said Rajavi outlined to Aziz "the terrorist plots on Iraqi territory by the Mullah's regime against the Iranian resistance." Iranian warplanes have raided Mujahideen camps in Iraq. There have also been several attacks on their headquarters in the heart of the Iraqi capital. Amnesty: Iran Has Executed Tens of Thousands in 16 Years, Associated Press, May 30 Iran has executed tens of thousands of suspected government opponents in the last 16 years and kept large numbers of political prisoners languishing in jail, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Opposition activists have been targeted for attack over the past 18 months and even Iranian dissidents who fled abroad are not safe, the London-based rights group said in 17- page report. Despite Iran's refusal to allow human rights investigators into the country, Tehran has not been able to hide its "appalling human rights record,"Amnesty said. Over the past 15 years, scores of dissidents living outside Iran have been "assassinated in circumstances suggesting they may have been extrajudicially executed by Iranian government agents," it said. The report cites cases of long-term political prisoners held without trial, and suspected executions of government opponents both inside and outside Iran by government agents... Four leaders of religious minority groups _ three Christians and a Sunni Muslim _ were found dead recently in suspicious circumstances, believed killed by Iranian government agents, the report said... Iran Says U.S. Military Force in Gulf is Illegal, Reuters, May 28 Iran's Supreme National Security Council under President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said U.S. plans to reorganize its naval forces in the Gulf were illegal and would destabilize the region. The Iranian news agency IRNA said on Sunday the council asked Iran's foreign ministry to contact Gulf Arab states and inform them "of the dangers posed by the latest illegal move of U.S. military forces...to regional stability..." IRNA reported in a meeting on Saturday the council said the plans were "an indication of the U.S. military policy to strengthen its hegemony and to formally make permanent its illegitimate presence in the Persian Gulf region."... Iran Says 50 Rioters to be Tried Publicly, Reuters, May 29 An Iranian judge has said that 50 people detained after rioting in a Tehran suburb in April are due to be put on public trial, the daily Iran said on Monday... The riots in Tehran's teeming working-class Islamshahr suburb were sparked by demands for better fresh water and lower bus fares but turned into a wider protest against high prices. A journalist at a Tehran newspaper told Reuters on Monday that local journalists had been able to confirm that 16 people were killed in the riots, but the news was not published....