BRIEF ON IRAN No. 262 Thursday, September 28, 1995 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran 3421 M Street NW #1032 Washington, DC 20007 China Drops Selling Reactors to Iran, Associated Press, September 27 NEW YORK - In another sign of improved U.S.-Chinese relations, China is dropping plans to sell two nuclear reactors to Iran, Foreign Minister Qian Qichen said Wednesday.... "Having a summit meeting and where it would take place is still under discussion," said a senior administration official, who discussed the Christopher-Qian meeting only on condition he not be identified by name. The official said the Qian "made it clear that the Iran reactor deal would not be implemented."... Iran Seeks Oil Price Boost to Ease Economic Pressure, Dow Jones News, September 27 PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela - Iranian oil minister Gholamreza Aghazadeh said the Oil and Petroleum Exporting Countries' future policy must be to defend its market share while trying to boost oil prices. Aghazadeh, who is unhappy with current oil prices, said OPEC's decision on 1996 output next November will depend on market conditions at that time. He did say that OPEC must clearly establish a definition for quotas at that meeting.... Aghazadeh said that without a clear policy, which guarantees that overproduction will continue, OPEC risks not being taken seriously in the market. He said OPEC currently supplies 40% of the world's oil needs and should therefore have a 40% share of increases in world oil demand. Iranian Students Call for Rushdie's Death, Reuters, September 27 TEHRAN - A meeting of Iranian university students and teachers on Wednesday called for the death edict against British author Salman Rushdie to be carried out, state-run Tehran radio said. "The implementation of the historic religious ruling by...Imam (Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini... concerning the apostate writer Salman Rushdie" was stressed in a resolution approved by the meeting, the radio said. The gathering, held at Khomeini's mausoleum to mark the start 15 years ago of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, was addressed by Mehdi Chamran, armed forces general staff deputy, and Higher Education Minister Mohammad Reza Hashemi Golpayegani, it said.... ... Conservative Ayatollah Ahmad Azari Ghomi said earlier this month it was the duty of all Moslems, including the Iranian state, to carry out the fatwa, or religious ruling, because Khomeini had not exempted anyone from it. "Has the Imam (Khomeini) exempted state employees, or is the fatwa...general? Has the 15th of Khordad foundation excluded any government employees from its prize?" asked Azari Ghomi in a statement published in Salam newspaper. He was referring to an Iranian charity that has promised to pay more than $2 million to anyone who kills Rushdie. Iran Trying to Save Face from Britain's Rejection, Reuters, September 27 Iran denied media reports that its Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati had asked to meet British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind at the United Nations. The official Iranian news agency IRNA said a Foreign Ministry spokesman issued the denial on Tuesday in response to foreign media reports that Rifkind had refused to meet Velayati because of differences over British author Salman Rushdie... Britain earlier this month said it saw no hope of Iran formally rescinding the edict against Rushdie and was therefore weighing the possibility of retaliatory action.... Kurdish Rebels Say Iran Executed Six Supporters, Reuters, September 27 An Iranian Kurdish rebel group said on Wednesday that Iran had executed six of its supporters. The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan said the six, residents of two villages near the Turkish border, had been arrested last year on suspicion of cooperating with the armed opposition group....