BRIEF  ON  IRAN, No. 270
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        Wednesday, October 11, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC
20007


NCR Calls on Austria and Ireland to Cancel Nateq-
Noori's Trips, from a statement issued by the
Secretariat of the NCR-Paris, October 10

        According to the reports of the news agencies,
Ali Akbar Nateq Noori, speaker of the mullahs' Majlis
(parliament) will begin a trip to Austria and Ireland
on October 29.
        The visits by the mullahs' speaker of Majlis are
taking place while last summer, more than 1,700
members of parliament in Europe and the United
States - including the parliamentary majority in
some countries - condemned the mullahs' anti-
human and terrorist policies and declared support
for the National Council of Resistance and its
President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. They called on
their governments to impose a trade embargo on the
mullahs' regime.
        The failure of the European Union in its
several-month campaign to gain renunciation of the
death decree for Salman Rushdie proved that the
mullahs are the only party benefiting from every
form of "critical dialogue" to advance their
repressive policies inside the country and export
terrorism abroad.
        The National Council of Resistance strongly
condemns the Irish and Austrian receptions of Nateq
Noori, one of the mullahs' top officials in charge of
suppression, executions and torture in Iran. The NCR
calls on both countries to cancel the planned trips
which are obvious insults to the parliament and
representatives of the people of Ireland and Austria
and an affront to the people of Iran and against their
best interests.

The Century's Greatest Threat, NTB, Norway's News
Agency, September 26

        The National Council of Resistance of Iran says
Iran's plan to build a nuclear bomb is this century's
most serious threat, and Iran is doing this with the
aid of Russia, Germany, China and Sweden.
        Sources cooperating with the NCR say that
1,500 Russian specialists will go to the suburb of
Bushehr to begin working with the reactors.
        It is a dangerous time. Islamic fundamentalism
is spreading in Europe and there is no guarantee
Iran would make good on its promises.


US-China Politics, Associ-ated Press, October 10

        WASHINGTON - The brief session President
Clinton is having this  month with Chinese President
Jiang Zemin is caught up in presidential  politics on
both sides, albeit of very different styles....
        The uncertain status of relations between the
two countries was obvious  in New York when
Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Chinese
Foreign Minister Qian Qichen met late last month
while in New York for the  opening of the U.N.
General Assembly session....
        After the Christopher-Qian meeting, a senior
administration official told  reporters that the
Chinese had announced they were terminating plans
to  sell nuclear reactors to Iran, a step the official
could cite as another strong  indication that relations
were on the upswing.
        But before Qian left New York, he said at a
luncheon that the deal had  been suspended, not
terminated....
        A U.S. official suggested that Qian gave an
accurate version of the status  of the deal during his
meeting with Christopher.
        "We're not concerned with how the Chinese
described the situation," he  said, speaking on
condition of anonymity. "The fact is, the Chinese are
not  going to implement the contract with Iran."...


Under-aged Human Waves to Boost Defense,
Jomhouri Islami, September 27

        Population growth is a pillar of the Islamic
State's defense structure... The larger the population,
the stronger is the power to defend and protect the
survival of the Islamic country. If the Islamic Iran
did not have such a large population, how could it
fulfill the need for human force during the eight-
year war?


Kurdish Rebels Say Iran Arrests 26 Kurds, Reuters,
October 10

        NICOSIA - An Iranian Kurdish opposition
group said on  Tuesday that Iran had arrested 26
Kurds on suspicion of supporting the  rebel
organization.
        The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, in a
fax sent to Reuters from  its Paris office, gave the
names of the 26 and named the villages in
northwestern Iran where it said they were arrested
in the past two months.
        The report could not be independently
confirmed.
        The party said last week Iran executed one of
its supporters, bringing to  10 the number of rebel
Kurds it said were executed or died as a result of
torture in prison in the past few weeks....