BRIEF ON IRAN, No. 232 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran Wednesday, August 16, 1995 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 On the Eve of UN Sub-Commission's Condem-nation of Mullahs Regime: Hollow Show of Amnesty, From a statement issued by the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran-Paris, August 15 Tehran's state-run radio claimed today that 484 convicts of the general, revolutionary and military tribunals have been pardoned or their sentences commuted. This ridiculous theatrics by the inhuman regime ruling Iran, is staged on the eve of the decision-making by the UN Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in Geneva to condemn the mullahs ruling Iran. The Sub-Commission is currently examining the mullahs' violation of human rights and particularly the rights of minorities. The mullahs have already been condemned 34 times by the United Nations for their violations of human rights, including the torture and arbitrary executions of prisoners. The mullahs' regime who today claims to have freed convicts of the revolutionary courts, has for the past several years prevented any visits to the Iranian prisons by the International Committee of the Red Cross or the UN Special Representative on Iran. This is not the first time the mullahs' regime resorts to such ridiculous maneuvers to cover up its extensive violations of human rights. Every year, before and after every international condemnation, it launches such propaganda. The disgraceful maneuvers of the religious terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran has never deceived the Iranian people and Resistance or the international community. The Iranian Resistance and all advocates of human rights are particularly concerned about the fate of 600 residents of South Tehran arrested in an extensive uprising there last April. The mullahs' regime has officially announced the arrest of 86,000 people in the last year alone. Mullahs Frightened on Anniversary of Uprising, Radio Israel, August 14 This afternoon, the state-run Iranian television announced that the mobile ta'azeerat (torture) units are conducting a large scale patrol in the cities of Qum, Karaj and Qazvin. The TV report emphasized that patrolling Qazvin bears higher level of importance, but did not give further details. These days mark the first anniversary of the bloody uprising in Qazvin where a number of the city's residents protested the government's policies for two days. During the demonstrations, which ended after severe actions by the Revolutionary Guards reinforcements, an unknown number of residents were killed. U.S. Ban Forces Tehran's Oil Production below OPEC Quota, Reuters, August 15 NICOSIA - ...Oil traders say Iran has to find new buyers for an estimated 600,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) that U.S. firms previously lifted before the ban, which took effect in June. Iranian crude is mainly being carried into European markets unsold and its price has slipped against the benchmark Brent. Oil industry sources estimate Iran in July produced below its Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota of 3.6 million bpd.... The ban (which Washington imposed after alleging Iran supported terrorism and sought nuclear weapons) also pushed Iran, OPEC's second largest producer, to increasingly resort to the international shipping market. Before the embargo, U.S. firms used their own tankers or leased vessels to transport Iran's crude from Iranian terminals.... Mullahs Go Online, Newsweek, August 21 ... Hundreds of Iranian users recently logged on to a nasty surprise. The president of Iran's only private computer-link firm had posted a message to all online users: from here on, their public mail had to "comply with Islamic laws and traditions".... The government is trying to keep an eye on the computer revolution. It sponsors a network whose "chat rooms" allow online dialogue between only two subscribers at a time, with a silent auditor from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance listening in....