BRIEF ON IRAN No. 183 Tuesday, June 6, 1995 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran 3421 M Street NW #1032 Washington, DC 20007 Mullah's Remarks Do Not Deceive Any One, From the Statement by the Press Office of The People's Mojahedin of Iran - Paris, June 5 A Mojahedin press spokesman commented today on the remarks made to the BBC by the regime's foreign minister Valayati, according to whom the mullahs "will not send any commandos to assassinate any one in Europe." These statements are made while the primary assignment of the regime's embassies and diplomat-terrorists in various European countries is organizing, planning and carrying out terrorist operations in these countries, the spokesman said. "Such remarks seek to deceiving the world public on the eve of the G-7 meeting," he added. "Leaders of the terrorist regime ruling Iran have always endorsed the need to carry out Salman Rushdie's death decree. Their ambiguous statements in recent days before the G-7 session, however, are designed to kill time and prevent the Group's adoption of practical measures against the regime." Newspapers in Iran continue to preach the need for carrying out Rushdie's death decree, the spokesman stressed. In its latest issue on May 31, the weekly Kayhan Havaii refuted the "claim" by British, American and French media on Iran's change of heart on Rushdie, stating : "Iranian officials have time and again declared that the decree on the apostasy of Salman Rushdie is irreversible and according to the verdict of Islam, execution of this decree is mandatory for every Moslem." Khamenei Slams U.S. at Khomeini's Tomb, The Washington Times, June 5 National leader Ali Khamenei called for defiance of the United States at a ceremony yesterday marking the sixth anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ... Ayatollah Khamenei dismissed a new American embargo as unworkable because he said Iran was no longer dependent upon others. "Rooted in the legacy of the [1979] revolution, Iran's people now stand fast against expansionists and colonialists," he said, asserting that Ayatollah Khomeini's legacy would live on. "The glory of Islam is glowing day after day," added Ayatollah Khomeini's successor as Iran's spiritual leader... Ayatollah Khamenei accused Washington of interfering in Iran's affairs and said the United States looked at Iran "with greedy eyes." "It is very clear the government [of Iran] is against U.S. interests," he declared. "If you limit your interests to the borders of your enemy, we would have nothing to do with you... Our revolution has a message, a clear voice."... More Ways to Repress the Citizenry, Tehran's Radio, June 3 On the occasion of the Week of "Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil," Lotfi, chief representative of the supreme leader in the Guards Corps of Kermanshah province [western Iran] described the objectives of executing the programs of this headquarters as expansion and spread of enjoining good and forbidding evil... Gaurds Corps Brigadier Azadi, commander of the corps in the Kermanshah area stated that concurrent with the sixth anniversary of Khomeini's death, 2,000 Gaurds will be dispatched to Tehran to enforce the campaign. He added that in order to confront social vice and corruption 7,000 Besijis have been trained... Crippled Economy, The Agence France Presse, June 3 Iranian and European Economic sources in Tehran reported that the export of rugs, considered the number one non- petroleum source of income for Iran, is crippled following the new regulations regarding exchange rate. On Saturday, in response to AFP's question an expert said, "practically no rug has left Iran in last three weeks and many exporters have either suspended or canceled their operations and even some have gone to the borders to reclaim their merchandise." One of the rug exporters told AFP that "most rug exporters have bought their rugs on the basis of 5,000 to 6,000 rials for each dollar. They will loose a lot of money." He added: 'The only way is doubling the price of rugs, but commercially this is not imaginable. Under such circumstances they prefer not to export and everything is blocked."...