BRIEF  ON  IRAN, No. 277
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        Friday, October 20, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Rabin Discusses Terrorism with CIA Head, United Press
International, October 19

        JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
met Thursday with  U.S. CIA director John Deutch to discuss
rising Islamic fundamentalism and other  security threats in
the Mideast, Israeli press reports said....
        Israel is concerned by Russian intentions to sell
nuclear reactors to Iran for fear the  Islamic regime will use
them to develop nuclear weapons....


Hizballah Killing Must Be Stopped, Editorial, Voice of
America, October 19

        This week, members of the terrorist group, Hizballah,
ambushed Israeli soldiers driving on a road in southern
Lebanon. The bomb and rocket attack left six Israelis dead
and another severely wounded. It was the second fatal
attack by Hizballah in recent days. Last week, three Israeli
soldiers were killed.
        The main supporter of Hizballah is Iran, the world's
leading state sponsor of terrorism. Iran has provided
Hizballah with substantial amounts of money, training,
weapons and explosives, as well as diplomatic and
organizational aid. While Syria is not known to give aid
directly to Hizballah, it does permit Iran to resupply the
terrorist group via Damascus. Syrian troops also control
Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, a major operating area for
Hizballah.
        The United States deplores the violence in southern
Lebanon. The U.S. urges all parties that have influence in
the area to do what they can to stop it. This would increase
the prospects for peace in Lebanon and the Middle East.


Bracelets, Eyeglasses And Watches Announced "UnIslamic",
Israeli Radio, October 18

        In a new religious edict, Khamenei announced that
using any kind of jewelry, golden items and even eyeglasses
that contain gold is absolutely prohibited for men, and using
any kind of bracelets, eyeglasses and watches by women
-which according to Khamenei is imitating the enemies'
aggressive culture- is sacrilegious...


>From Cultural Icon to Freedom Fighter, The Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, October/November 1995,
[Continued from BOI 273]

        "... What actually gave me the inspiration to leave the
country was that the resistance was progressing and, most
important, that it had elected a woman for the transition
period.
        "The People's Mojahedin are Muslim but they
represent anti-fundamentalist Islam. The fact that they are
serious, dedicated, honest and that they have an army
means that they cannot be compared with others who have
simply stood aside and said not a word about what is
happening in Iran."
        Marzieh has a great deal to say about the current
situation in Iran where, she says, 150,000 people have been
jailed and tens of thousands executed, including "children,
pregnant girls, the intelligentsia, the cream of the crop."
Confirming her previous public statements that when virgin
girls are sentenced to death in Iran they are routinely
raped by agents of the regime because the mullahs believe
that "otherwise their souls would go to heave," she exclaims
angrily: "I swear to God that this has been happening
through all of the reign of the mullahs."
        ... "What do you expect of these backward mullahs of
the Middle Ages when they say that two women witnesses
are only the equivalent of one man?" she asks.
        "The whole world has not been able to get them to
reverse the Rushdie decision. This is compatible with the
other crimes of the mullahs against both men and women.
If a woman goes outside and a bit of hair shows from under
her headscarf, she is arrested and then her family is
summoned to watch while she is punished with 74 lashes. If
she wears lipstick, the Revolutionary Guards are capable of
slashing her lips with razor blades. If she wears cosmetics,
they'll throw acid in her face."
        Since joining the National Council of Resistance of Iran,
Marzieh has performed before large audiences of Iranian
exiles. In March she sang at London's Royal Albert Hall....
        She also has appeared in Sweden and in Germany,
where an audience of 6,000 attended her concert in
Dusseldorf. In the U.S. she sang informally at a Sept. 19
invitational dinner in the Rayburn House Office Building
sponsored by several members of Congress....
        Now, Iran's best-loved singer has enlisted in its
[Mojahedin's] volunteer ranks "so that I can be the voice of
my people and echo the cries of the women who have for so
many years been deprived."...