BRIEF  ON  IRAN,No. 199
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        Wednesday, June 28, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Iranian Resistance Calls on Germany to Expose Khomeini
Regime's Terrorist Plots, From a statement issued by the
Secretariat of NCR-Paris, June 27

        On June 9 and 12, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of
the NCR, in two telegrams to Chancellor Helmut Kohl,
uncovered the Khomeini regime's terrorist plots and
conspiracies to compel Germany to ban the speech in
Dortmund of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Resistance's
President-elect. Between June 9 and 14, the Secretariat of
the NCR issued three communiqués and the NCR held a
press conference in Bonn revealing more details on the
mullahs' political schemes and terrorist plots in this
regard.
        On June 25 and 26, The New York Times and The
International Herald Tribune, published articles which
exposed other particulars of the regime's terrorist
conspiracy, leaving no more doubts as to the objectives
and terrorist intrigues of the Khomeini regime in
Germany.
        The Iranian Resistance demands that the
Government of Germany present the public with the
details of the mullahs' terrorism and blackmail over the
meeting of Iranians in Dortmund. The Iranian Resistance
further demands the arrest and prosecution of the
terrorists and diplomat-terrorists involved in this
conspiracy....
Iran MP Slams EU over Group of Seven Statement,
Reuters, June 26

        TEHRAN - A senior Iranian parliamentarian
criticized European members of the Group of Seven
industrial nations on Monday for abandoning what he
called their policy of "critical dialogue" with Tehran....
        "The political statement of Halifax shows that
important members of the European Union have
seemingly forgotten the rules of the game of dialogue,"
Mohammad Javad Larijani, a member of parliament's
foreign policy committee and the influential National
Security Council, wrote in Ressalat newspaper.
        The EU and Iran have been negotiating to improve
ties in return for Iran's assurance that it would not send
death squads to implement a death edict against author
Salman Rushdie.
        Iran has said it will not send squads to kill Rushdie
but has also stressed that the edict stands....
        A well-known Iranian cleric, Mohammad Javad
Hojati Kermani, said in his column in Etelaat newspaper
on Monday that carrying out the death sentence on
Rushdie was compulsory for all Moslems but was
forbidden for the government....


Iran, Revolutionary Disintegration, Time, June 26

        ... If Iran's citizens are indifferent about the values
of the revolution, many of the country's officials are
deeply cynical. Corruption permeates Iranian society.
Nothing can be accomplished in Tehran -from booking an
airline seat to sending a fax abroad to extracting goods
from customs- without paying a bribe.... When parties
are busted for playing loud music or serving alcohol,
guests are still taken to local komiteh headquarters. So
are women who show too much hair under their scarves,
and unmarried couples caught in public together....
        A young woman in a clothing store in the
shantytown of Islam Shahr, where riots occurred in April,
gives a gruesome example. Pretending to examine
merchandise, she whispers anxiously, "My neighbors
buried their 16-year-old son last week. The government
made them pay 8 million rials [$2,700]to get back his
body. We don't know if he was killed in the riots or
later."...
        The owner of a kebab restaurant in poor south
Tehran surveys the bedraggled unemployed men outside.
"People are so hungry they're stealing," he notes. His
restaurant is empty, but the men hear him complaining
and come in. They nod agreement while he continues,
"The riots in Islam Shahr and Akbar Abad spread like
wildfire. Down the road in Shush, people broke windows.
In the Shah's time, rice was 70 rials a kilo; now it's 7,000.
If the government hears me say this, they will shoot me
as a counterrevolutionary."...