BRIEF ON IRAN, No. 240 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran Monday, August 28, 1995 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Iranian Resistance Condemns Mullahs' Resort to Arbitrary Suppression, From a statement by the Secretariat of the NCR-Paris, August 25 Mullah Ahmad Jannati, Tehran's Friday Prayer Leader, announced today that the Hezbollah gangs must arise to directly counter what he called "western interpretations of democracy." The Iranian Resistance condemns the mullahs' official resort to the deployment of club-wielder vigilante gangs to step up public repression and believes this measure to be the desperate reaction of the ruling mullahs to the growth and expansion of social protests. In light of the deteriorating political and economic situation, the explosive social circumstances, and the regime's failure in legalizing the use of force to curb and contain increasing social protests, it has to resort more frequently to extra-judicial and arbitrary methods and once again unleashes club-wielding gangs to launch a wave of terror and reinforce public repression. It should be noted that the U.N. Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities adopted a strongly-worded resolution yesterday and condemned the flagrant violations of human rights in Iran, including the excessive use of the death penalty, the use of excessive force and guns in suppressing public demonstrations and harassment and intimidation of people by street patrols. Senior Iran Cleric Backs Publishing House Attack, Reuters, August 25 TEHRAN - A senior Iranian ayatollah on Friday supported an arson attack against the offices of the publishers of a novel accused of mocking Islamic activists.... "I recommend that officials not reprimand young Hizbollah members when... they carry out their duty," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in a Friday sermon prayer broadcast on Tehran radio. He was apparently referring to the attack on Wednesday on the Morghe-e Amin publishing house and bookshop.... Jannati said the attackers were following a directive by the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urging people to stop "corruption" if authorities failed to do so.... After the controversy in the press, authorities banned the novel and seized remaining copies of it. Germany Expels Two Iranian Diplomats, Reuters, August 26 TEHRAN - Germany has expelled two Iranian diplomats, an Iranian newspaper reported on Saturday. "The German government, in an unexpected move, has expelled two Iranian diplomats and gave them two days to leave the country," Kayhan newspaper reported, but did not say when the two were told to leave Germany. There has been no official word on the reported expulsion from either side. Kayhan said the expulsion took place after French police questioned two Iranian diplomats over a bomb blast that injured 17 people in Paris last week.... Kayhan, the only Iranian paper to report the expulsion, said it was an "uncalculated" act by Germany.... Iran Expels Two German Diplomats, United Press International, August 27 LONDON - Iran has declared two German diplomats not welcome and ordered them out of the country for activities in breach of diplomatic norms, the Iranian newspaper Jomhuri Islami said Sunday.... But IRNA quoted the daily as saying the expulsion was in retaliation for the reported expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from Germany. The Iranian newspaper Kayhan said on Saturday that Bonn had expelled two Iranian diplomats and gave them two days to leave Germany. Consequences of Mullahs' Economic Policies, IRNA, August 24 An English-language newspaper [Iran News] ... indicated that according to current statistics, the Iranian oil income was $18.8 billion 20 years ago, and $16.6 billion 4 years ago; in the past few years it has reached $14 to $15 billion. Twenty years ago, Iran's population was 32 million, 4 years ago it was 57 million, and now it is more than 60 million. In the meantime, the government did not reach its $18 billion goal for non-petroleum exports in its first 5- year plan. According to the newspaper, the non-oil exports was only $10 billion which is the result of many factors including non-existence of a credible currency policy....