BRIEF ON IRAN No. 189 Wednesday, June 14, 1995 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran 3421 M Street NW #1032 Washington, DC 20007 Germany Bans Iran Opposition Leader From Rally, Reuters, June 13 Germany on Tuesday banned Iranian Mujahideen resistance leader Maryam Rajavi from attending a rally intended to whip up international opposition to the Tehran government. The move outraged Iranian dissidents, who accused Bonn of caving in to pressure from Tehran. Rajavi, designated by the Iranian National Resistance Council as the future president of Iran, was due to address several thousand Iranians on Friday in the city of Dortmund at the start of a week of rallies in European and North American cities. But Bonn's foreign ministry said Rajavi, based in Paris with the council -- a parliament-in-exile -- would be turned back at the border because Germany was not prepared to support calls on its territory for the overthrow of another regime... She said the move followed a meeting with Iran's ambassador Hossein Mousavian but that Bonn made an independent decision. But National Resistance Council president Massoud Rajavi, Maryam Rajavi's husband, sent an angry telegram to Chancellor Helmut Kohl accusing him of bowing to Iranian pressure. The Council said Iran's foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati had joined attempts to block the rally, and that a top Tehran intelligence official had come to Bonn to apply extra pressure. "Mrs. Rajavi's attendance at the Dortmund rally has been repeatedly brought to the attention of the German authorities since May 12, who have officially agreed to provide protection for her on German soil," Massoud Rajavi wrote. He said to keep her out was "tantamount to surrender to the intimidation and extortion of mullahs (Iranian religious leaders)."... Germany is a leading advocate in the west of maintaining contact with Tehran, and has occasionally irritated Britain and the United States for refusing to shun contact with Iran over its alleged involvement in international terrorism... Rajavi, 43, a metallurgy graduate who has lived in exile since 1982 and has been a top Mujahideen leader for over a decade, was made "president-elect" by the resistance council in 1993. She was due to make an appeal in Dortmund to European governments to join trade and investment sanctions which U.S. President Bill Clinton imposed on Iran last month. Germany was chosen for the rally as the home of the biggest community of exiled Iranians in Europe... European Parliamentarians Attack Iran, United Press International, June 13 A group of European parliamentarians Tuesday denounced the government of Iran as an "inhuman dictatorship" and urged the U.N. Security Council to act on Tehran's violations of human rights... "It is vital that the U.N. Security Council instigate binding measures concerning the repeated violations of international standards of human rights and the widespread suppression of the Iranian people by the ruling regime," the statement said... The statement said the death of the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini six years ago prompted some Western countries to expand their relations with "this inhuman regime." "This policy has clearly failed. We believe that appeasement, under whatever pretext, will have the opposite effect to that intended," the statement said. The statement said the resistance group "will expedite the establishment of democracy in Iran."... More Than 1,700 Lawmakers Call For Sweeping Iran Sanctions, Associated Press, June 13 Some Western governments may not back Clinton's embargo on Iran, but more than 1,700 lawmakers in Europe, Canada and the United States do... "We want to see much more being done ... in terms of imposing penalties on the regime in Iran for its violation of human rights and other international crimes," Lord Avebury, one of 421 members of the British parliament supporting sanctions, said Tuesday... The statements also urge governments to support the National Council of Resistance, a coalition of exiled dissident groups trying to overthrow the Tehran government... The National Council said similar statements have been signed by 317 Italian legislators, 185 Swedish lawmakers and members of Parliament and the European Parliament from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland and San Marino.