BRIEF  ON  IRAN, No. 283
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        Monday, October 30, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Mrs. Rajavi's Meetings in Norway, excerpts from
statements issued by the Secretariat of the NCR - Paris,
October 27 & 28

*       With Former Norwegian Prime Minister and
Governor of Oslo
        On Friday Morning, Mr. Kaare Willock, the Governor
of Oslo and Akershus and the former prime minister of
Norway and ex-leader of the Conservative Party, met
and held talks with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian
Resistance's President-elect.
        ...Mrs. Rajavi stressed that so long as Khomeini's
anti-human regime exists in Iran, the suppression of the
Iranian people and export of fundamentalism will
continue....
        Mr. Willock condemned the atrocities of the
Khomeini regime and wished the Iranian Resistance
success. He stated the hope that democracy and human
rights would soon return to Iran....

*       With Speaker of Norway's Lower House of
Parliament
        On Friday morning, Mr. Gunnar Skaug, the speaker
of the Norwegian Lower House of Parliament, met and
held talks with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi.... Mr. Skaug said: In
the Norwegian Parliament, it is not only the ruling party,
but all the political parties who support you and your
Resistance for freedom and democracy in Iran....
        Mrs. Rajavi stated that if the international
community adopted a firm policy towards the mullahs'
regime by cutting off trade and diplomatic ties with it
and by supporting the Iranian Resistance, then the
process for establishing democracy in Iran would be
expedited....

*       With Socialist Party Chair
        Mr. Eric Solheim, chairman of the Socialist Party of
Norway, visited and held talks Saturday morning with
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. The party's secretary for foreign
relations was also present....
        My goal in coming to Norway is to convey the voice
of the suffering people of Iran and particularly the
Iranian women to the people of your country, Mrs.
Rajavi emphasized....
        Condemning the crimes of the mullahs ruling Iran,
Mr. Solheim stressed: We believe it is the irrefutable
right of the Iranian people to undertake armed
resistance against this regime, just as the people of
Norway fought the Hitlerian Fascism in the same
manner....

*       With Vice-president of Norwegian Parliament
        Mr. Edvard Grimstad, Vice-president of Norway's
Parliament (Stortingets), met and held talks Friday with
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi.
        ...Mrs. Rajavi said: The mullahs' regime has not only
committed the most atrocious crimes against the people
of Iran, but by exporting terrorism and fundamentalism
abroad, it has now turned into the worst enemy of peace
and stability in the Middle East and Islamic countries....
        Mr. Grimstad emphasized that the people and
parliamentary representatives of Norway have long been
concerned about the situation of human rights in Iran
and therefore, they support the just and democratic
aspirations of the Iranian people....


Iranian Resistance Leader Calls on Norway, Associated
Press, October 27

        OSLO, Norway - Leaving her refuge in France for
the first time in two years, Iranian rebel leader Maryam
Rajavi urged Norwegians Friday to step up pressure
against her country's theocratic regime.
        "Given the great tradition of Norway, after South
Africa and the peace process in the Middle East, the time
has come for Norway to focus its attention on Iran," Mrs.
Rajavi said after meeting the Norwegian Parliament's
foreign affairs committee....
        After fighting Islamic fundamentalists in Iran,
Rajavi fled to Paris in 1982 and has not left France in
two years, her spokesman said....
        Rajavi urged Norway to go farther "by cutting off
complete relations with it."...


Gingrich Wants Funds Set Aside For Iran Action, Dow
Jones News, October 27

        WASHINGTON - Speaker Newt Gingrich is seeking
to set aside an estimated $18 million in the U.S.
intelligence budget to finance a potential covert action
aimed at ousting the Iranian government.
        The speaker's office declined to comment
yesterday on the initiative. But he has been outspoken in
the past in urging a much more aggressive U.S. stance
toward Tehran and what he sees as the threat of Islamic
totalitarianism....


Iranian Defense Ministry Official, Six Others, Charged in
U.S., Associated Press, October 27

        COLUMBUS, Ohio - A suburban man and wife are
among seven people charged  with shipping $500,000
worth of computers and communications equipment to
Iran.
        "The shipment of sensitive military radios,
scramblers and decoders to a rogue state  such as Iran is
a serious threat to national security," U.S. Attorney
Edmund Sargus Jr.  said....
        Also indicted Thursday on charges of conspiracy,
money laundering and fraud were  four Iranians,
including an official of the Iranian Defense Ministry, one
person from the  United Arab Emirates, and two Middle
Eastern companies....