BRIEF  ON  IRAN, No. 225
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
                Monday, August 7, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007

Iranian Resistance Condemns Mullahs' Push to Change
Beijing's Declaration, From a statement issued by the
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran -
Paris, August 4

        According to the information received, the mullahs'
terrorist religious dictatorship is making every effort to
impose its backward and misogynist views on the Beijing
Conference and influence the declaration to be adopted. A
state-run newspaper in Iran, Abrar, revealed last week
that the Khomeini regime is demagogically using the
guise of a "Union of women followers of divine religions
and Muslim women" to defend the clerical regime's
concepts of "compulsory veiling" and the regime's "right
to protect its views."
        In another development, the news agencies
reported on a letter by the High Commissioner for Human
Rights to Mr. Boutros Boutros Ghali, the United Nations
Secretary General, in which he expressed concern about
the draft text of the Beijing Declaration.... The
Commissioner rightly criticizes the paragraphs indicating
that "cultural, religious or other particularities" had
priority over human rights, all well-known claims of the
fundamentalist mullahs ruling Iran.
        The Iranian Resistance condemns the Khomeini
regime's efforts to influence the final text of the Beijing
Declaration. It endorses the concerns of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Human Rights and underlines the
mullahs' continuous abuse of Islam....
        Earlier, in a telegram on June 30 to the UN
Secretary General, H.E. Boutros Boutros Ghali, and to Mrs.
Gertrude Mongella, Secretary General of the Fourth World
Conference in Beijing, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian
Resistance's President-elect, enumerated the mullahs'
inconceivable crimes against women. She urged the U.N.
authorities not to allow  "Iran's ruling mullahs extend
their savage repression and inhuman discrimination
against women to the headquarters of the United Nations
and the World Conference on Women."
        As Mrs. Rajavi, a Shiite Muslim woman herself,
declared in her 16-item Charter for Fundamental
Freedoms in Future Iran, "The mullahs' regime is the
worst enemy of women and the most hostile enemy of
Islam."
Iran Turns Guards Into Rapid Deployment Force, Reuters,
August 5

        NICOSIA - Iran said on Saturday it was turning its
Revolutionary Guards, estimated at about 170,000, into a
rapid deployment force.
        The official IRNA news agency quoted Major-
General Mohsen Rezaei, Commander-In-Chief of the
Revolutionary Guards, as saying: "Personnel are turning
into rapid deployment forces."...


Brazilian Firms Said to Sell Arms to Iran-Paper, Reuters,
August 6

        RIO DE JANEIRO - Two Brazilian companies have
been accused of selling arms illegally to Iran in 1984 by
using false documents attributing the sales to the Libyan
government, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
        The sales may also have formed part of the Iran-
contra operation in which arms were sold illegally to Iran
and money from the deals sent to the contra guerrillas
who were fighting the then left-wing government in
Nicaragua, said Folha de Sao Paulo.
        Brazilian Federal Attorney Artur Gueiros told Folha
he believes the case could merit an official government
inquiry "to investigate how and why Brazil became
involved in the Iran-contra affair."...
        The Brazilian claims center on the alleged sale by
export firm Jabour S/A and explosives manufacturer
Explo S/A of one million hand grenades and 240,000
other grenades, apparently to a representative from the
Libyan government....
        Evidence shows, however, that the first shipment of
the arms was collected by an Iranian-registered ship, the
Everhope, in June 1984....
        A key witness denies the sales were to Libya. "We
made the material for Iran. We never sold anything to
Libya ...," Zoltan Racs, one of the founders of Explo, told
the Folha de Sao Paulo....