BRIEF ON IRAN, No. 291
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        Thursday, November 9, 1995



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Maryam Rajavi Succeeded In Gaining Tremendous
Support, Vartland (Norway), November 7

        Yesterday, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian
Resistance, left Norway like a head of state under full
security measures....
        After a two-week visit to Norway, Maryam Rajavi
left Norway as she was protected by a complete police
escort in the government Mercedes. Among those waiting
for her at the VIP entrance were Ragnhild Haarstad,
member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Arch-
Bishop Aarflot. He presented the Iranian Resistance's
President-elect with a Bible in Arabic...
        In such a moving weather, it could be said that the
presence of so many at Fornebu Airport at 9:30 in the
morning, is not just a formal duty or a protocol. With her
glowing warmth, this 42-year-old woman has obviously
succeeded in gaining tremendous support for struggle
against the mullahs in Tehran.
        Rajavi said: I appreciate the friendship and warmth I
received in this country, particularly from the Church of
Norway. This alliance between Islam and Christianity is
something the Iranian regime vehemently opposes. The
support I received is very inspiring for my Christian
compatriots in Iran. It is very difficult for me to leave
Norway, she added.


Support Maryam Rajavi, Arbeider Bladet, Editorial,
November 1, By Leif Vetlesen, author and former
Secretary General of Amnesty International

        The clerical rule in Iran threatens the stability in the
world.
        On Wednesday, Oct. 25, intensive security measures
were undertaken for the first time in Fornebu airport. The
reason? Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National
Council of Resistance of Iran arrived in Norway upon the
invitation of the Norwegian Committee for Defense of
Human Rights in Iran....
        Maryam Rajavi was born in 1953 in Tehran and
studied metallurgy. In her student years, she took part in
the struggle for a democratic Iran. In spring 1981, she
played a significant role in organizing two major
demonstrations against the Khomeini regime. She escaped
the arrests and went to Paris in 1982, where she
participated in the reconstruction of the National Council
of Resistance. In August 1993, the National Council of
Resistance elected her President to take power in the
transitional period after the overthrow of the mullahs'
regime....
        Just recently, 425 members of the British Parliament
signed a declaration in complete support of the National
Council of Resistance of Iran and its President-elect. 202
members of the U.S. Congress also did the same.
        Just as President Rajavi says and does not lose any
opportunity to emphasize it, the problem of
fundamentalism represented by Iran is a real threat to the
world's stability and against general peace. Such a regime
with nuclear rockets and chemical and biological weapons
is the nightmare of our times. Therefore, it is necessary to
do whatever is in our power to support the Iranian
Resistance movement, with the hope and conviction that
the people of Iran will themselves, settle their accounts
with their oppressors.


4,000 Executed, Chinese News Agency, November 1

        Tehran - A government official announced today in
Tehran that Iran has executed more than 4,000 drug
traffickers since 1988.
        Mohammad Javad Heshmati, assistant to the deputy
director of the anti-drug trafficking headquarters said
more than 12,500 foreign drug-traffickers are detained in
Iranian jails.


Elements of Sustenance, Voice of Mojahed, October 31

        Mullah Ali Meshkini, President of the Assembly of
Experts, addressed the anti-riot Ashura battalions: "The
presence of these forces is a necessity for safeguarding the
regime's existence."
        Mullah Jazayeri, the Friday prayer leader of Ahwaz,
said in his Friday prayer sermon this week: "Don't ever
think that Bassij was a wartime issue which is over now.
To maintain our existence we must always have a Bassij
organization."
        In an address to a group of Bassij agents in Qom, Ali
Mohammad Besharati, the Minister of Interior, described
the anti-riot Ashura battalion as "the elements of
sustenance and maintenance" of the state.


Fomenting Trouble in Bahrain, As-Sharq al-Awsat,
November 3

        Seven prisoners in Bahrain ended their ten-day
hunger strike yesterday. They demanded freedom of those
arrested during the recent sabotage activities....
        The Government of Bahrain has implicated the
Government of Iran as being behind the unrest. Iran
denies the charge but some of the participants in
yesterday's gathering in Bani-Jamreh village, were
carrying the posters of the Iranian leader Ayatollah
Khomeini.