BRIEF  ON  IRAN, No. 205
        Monday, July 10, 1995
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Khomeini Regime's Abortive Ground Attack on NLA
Ashraf Camp, From a statement issued by the office of the
People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad, July 9

        On the morning of Sunday, July 9, the Khomeini
regime desperately attempted another ground attack on
Ashraf Camp. At 4:15 a.m., agents of the mullahs' Guards
Corps launched their attack from a location 7 kms
southwest of the camp, using 107mm rocket launchers
(mini-Katyusha). Ashraf's security patrols and defense
units reacted immediately. Using artillery flare guns, they
illuminated the area and fired back on the firing position
of the enemy.
        At approximately 5:00 a.m., the enemy's firing
positions near a water channel, west of Khales-Kirkuk
road, were conquered. Agents of the enemy fled, leaving
behind their rocket launchers....
        In this abortive attack in which the Khomeini
regime's Guards infiltrated deep inside Iraq, five rockets
hit inside the Ashraf Camp but did not inflict any
damages. Other rockets landed in the surrounding desert
fields....
        Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National
Council of Resistance and Commander in Chief of the
National Liberation Army of Iran described the Khomeini
regime's abortive attack on the Ashraf Camp today, as a
manifestation of the regime's desperation in the face of
the Iranian Resistance and its achievements in Iran and
on the international level.
        "The overwhelming support and enthusiasm
Iranians demonstrated during the June 20 ceremonies
inside Iran and abroad in different countries for the
Resistance's President-elect, Maryam Rajavi, as well as the
declarations of support by parliaments of Europe and
America for the President-elect Maryam Rajavi and the
sole democratic alternative for the illegitimate regime
ruling Iran, have deranged the mullahs' balance,
compelling them to such desperate reactions. These futile
attempts are doomed to fail. They reveal only the fury
and frustration of the mullahs in the final stage of their
rule and herald their certain overthrow by the National
Liberation Army of Iran."...


Iranian Forces Said To Attack Exile Group in Iraq, Reuters,
July 9

        BAGHDAD - Iran's revolutionary guards fired
rockets at a camp of an Iranian exile group in Iraq but
caused no damage or casualties, the Mujahideen Khalq
organization said on Sunday.
        The Mujahideen, which opposes the Tehran
government, said Iranian guards had penetrated up to 90
km (56 miles) into Iraqi territory and attacked the
group's main camp, al-Ashraf, which is about 100 km (60
miles) northwest of Baghdad....
        This latest attack is likely to further strain relations
between Iraq and Iran who fought a ruinous war from
1980-88.
        The official press on Sunday carried a message from
Iraq's foreign ministry to the United Nations accusing Iran
of violating a U.N.-brokered ceasefire halting hostilities in
1988.
        The message said Iranian helicopter gunships
violated Iraqi airspace and Tehran was fortifying border
positions within  "the security zone"  between the two
countries.
        In its statement, the Mujahideen said Iran's
revolutionary guards had approached the camp and
planted anti-personnel and anti-tank mines in the area
before launching five rockets....
        It said the rockets were seized along with scores of
mines.  "The road and the outlying area were all mined in
advance,"  it said.
        It was the 34th attack by Iran on the base. In the
past, has Iran launched air and long-range missile strikes
on Ashraf.
        In May, gunmen fired at a vehicle of the group
inside Baghdad, killing two senior women members and
wounding a third.


Official Corruption in Tehran Government, Reuters, July 8

        NICOSIA - The Iranian parliament will consider
public grievances against the country's Central Bank, the
official Iranian news agency IRNA said on Saturday.
        "The demand was made for the first time by the
Majlis (parliament) Commission for Finance and Economic
Affairs in light of the public grievances against the CBI
(Central Bank of Iran) management in the past five years,"
IRNA said.
        The agency gave no details of the grievances and did
not say when investigations would start.
        IRNA said the Commission "also sought authorization
to see into the practice of the companies affiliated to
ministries of Petroleum, Construction Jihad, Agriculture, as
well as Melli and Saderat banks."...