BRIEF  ON  IRAN, No. 187
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        Monday, June 12, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Mullahs' Regime Steps Up Activities to Prevent June 16
Meeting, From a statement issued by the Secretariat of the
National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris, June 11

        The mullahs' regime has stepped up its efforts to
prevent the June 16 large gathering of Iranians in
Germany where Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian
Resistance's President-elect, will address the crowd.
        In the beginning of this week, the mullahs' Security
Council met in an extraordinary session headed by
Rafsanjani to make decisions on how to bring more
pressure on the government of Germany to make it yield
to the demand of the terrorist religious dictatorship. All of
the regime's top officials were present....
        Simultaneous with the announcement in May of Mrs.
Rajavi's planned speech to the Iranians' gathering in
Germany, Velayati, the mullahs' foreign minister, met with
the Justice Ministry's Deputy for Parliamentary Affairs,
and with the president of Iran-Germany Friendship
Society. In these meetings Velayati insistently asked for
every possible action which could prevent the June 16
meeting.
        In another development, the mullahs' ambassador to
Germany met with federal and state officials. He offered
economic contracts in return for "further understanding" of
the regime's requests regarding the gathering of Iranians
on June 16. He met among others, with the adviser
minister to Chancellor Kohl, the premiere, and the
parliamentary speaker of the Sachsen-Anhalt province....


Mullahs Blast the Support of 202 U.S. House Members for
the Iranian Resistance, Agence France Presse, June 11

        TEHRAN - The head of Iranian Majlis, Ali Akbar
Nateq Noori, described the request by members of the U.S.
House of Representatives for toughening of their country's
policy toward Iran as a "terrorist Act."  Noori who spoke at
the opening of  an Islamic parliament's session, said: "This
action, which demonstrates how uninformed these
representatives are, supports the enmity of Clinton
Administration against us."
        On Thursday, in a letter to President Clinton, 202
Democratic and Republican members of Congress called for
a multi-national and complete embargo against Iran and
dialogue with People's Mojahedin, the armed opposition
movement against Tehran.  The head of Majlis called the
People's Mojahedin as "terrorist group," and said that "this
request is like a terrorist act directed against us."...
        The signatories of the letter believe that because of
"continued violation of human rights", "patterns of terrorist
activities" and "unabated repression" of opponents, the
United States must reevaluate its policy toward Iran....


Iran Asks Iraq To Extradite Opposition Head - Weekly,
Reuters, June 11

        NICOSIA - Iran has asked Iraq to extradite an exiled
Iranian opposition leader and top members of his
Mujahideen Khalq group, an Iranian weekly said on
Sunday.
        The official news agency IRNA quoted Kayhan Havai
weekly as saying Iran made the request for the extradition
of Massoud Rajavi and an unspecified number of
Mujahideen officials during a visit recently by an Iranian
delegation to Baghdad....
        A Mujahideen statement sent to Reuters on Sunday
from Paris quoted Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz
as rejecting the demand in remarks on June 2....


Pro-Government Crowd Attacks Iranian Radical Paper,
Reuters, June 11

        TEHRAN - An Iranian radical weekly newspaper was
attacked by a crowd apparently angry with the paper's
criticism of government officials, the daily Salam
newspaper said on Sunday.
        Salam said it destroyed property and pushed around
staff and two clients in their attack on the office of the
weekly Payam-e-Daneshjoo (Student's Message).
        "Law does not exist in this country, we are the law.
Had we not warned you before not to write anything
against heads of power?," Salam reported a source at the
weekly quoting the attackers....