BRIEF  ON  IRAN,No. 236
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        Tuesday, August 22, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Following Structural Expansion of NCR, Seven New
Committees Added to National Council of Resistance, From
a statement by the Secretariat of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran - Paris, August 21

        In a statement released today, Mr. Massoud Rajavi,
President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran,
announced: Following the August 4-10 session of the
committees of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
which examined the two-year record of the committees
and decided for their expansion, seven new committees
were formed to undertake the current affairs of the
Resistance movement.
        In light of the numerical increase and qualitative
escalation of the activities of the committees and the need
to expand the organization of the NCR Secretariat, Mrs.
Mahvash Sepehri is appointed as the Senior Secretary of
the National Council of Resistance of Iran to head the
Council's central secretariat, the statement by the NCR
President said. Mrs. Sepehri was previously the
coordinator for the offices of the NCR's President-elect,
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, in different countries.
        Referring to the extensive outpour of popular
support in the country and abroad for the Iranian
Resistance  and its President-elect, the escalation of
popular protests and uprisings, and the failure of the
mullahs' political maneuvers and conspiracies against the
Iranian Resistance, the NCR committees had concluded in
their session: The prospects for the overthrow of the
religious terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran is brighter than
ever and the passage of time is strongly in favor of the
Iranian Resistance. The session, therefore, decided to place
the expansion and advancement of the activities of the
Council and its committees on the NCR agenda.
        Among the new committees, are the Committee on
Business Guilds chaired by Mr. Ibrahim Mazandarani, one
of Tehran's prominent merchants; Committee on Internal
Affairs chaired by Mr. Mehdi Bara'i; Committee on
Finances and Procurement chaired by Mrs. Sorayya
Shahri; and Committee on Political Studies chaired by Mr.
Mohammad Ali Jaberzadeh Ansari. With the formation of
the new committees, the number of the NCR committees,
which are the bases of the future coalition provisional
government, add up to 25....


Residential Rents Rise, Israeli Radio, August 19

        In Tehran, during the past 8 months, the residential
rents have increased by 60 to 70 percent and have
approached astronomical figures.
        Today, a Tehran daily reported the price hike and
wrote that during the current year, in parallel to the
sudden increase in price of goods and services, the
housing prices and residential rents have soared.
        In an extensive report, the Tehran daily Akhbar,
described the rent hikes as unprecedented and added that
a large number of those living in rented housing have
become homeless. According to this report, 80 to 100
percent of citizens' income is spent on rents.


A Pillar of Mullahs' Regime, United Press International,
August 21

         ATHENS - ...Regional analysts based in Tehran said
the clerics considered an anti-U.S. stance to be one of the
pillars of the revolution, and the country's rulers needed
to show Iranians they were strong enough to stand up to a
superpower.
         In March, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed an
executive order banning U.S. businessmen from dealing
with Iran.
         The new sanctions resulted in a loss of Iranian oil
sales totaling some 600,000 barrels a day which U.S.
companies were formerly buying for resale to refineries
outside the United States. Before the ban, Iran exported
2.4 million barrels a day....
         The United States is currently pressuring South
African to withdraw a deal for the state-owned National
Iranian Oil Co. to store some 15 million barrels of oil at the
Saldanaa Bay facility near Cape Town.