BRIEF ON IRAN
        Representative Office of \
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran              No. 307
        Wednesday, December  6, 1995



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British Foreign Ministry: Trial of Those Accused of Murdering
Iranian Christian Priests Incompatible with International
Standards, from a statement by NCR, December 6

        The British foreign ministry announced that the trial of
three women accused of murdering the Iranian Christian priests
did not conform to accepted international standards.
        On Monday, December 4, Mr. Jeremy Hanley, MP, Minister
of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, replied to a
question by Mr. David Alton, MP from the Liberal-Democrat
Party, concerning the observations of a representative of the
European Union at the trial. He said: "A representative of the
European Union Presidency attended two of the four sessions of
the trial... But despite the fact that the trial was held in public it
is not possible to say that justice was done. We are concerned
that certain aspects of the procedure did not conform to generally
accepted international standards. Examples are the publicity
given to the apparent confessions made by the accused before the
trial, and the impression that it was stage-managed."
        Previously, the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group,
the Middle East Concern and many other human rights groups
singled out the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran as
being responsible for the murder of the Christian priests.
        In July 1994, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the President of the
National Council of Resistance of Iran, demanded that the women
in question be sent to the Vatican, where this issue could be
addressed in the presence of the representatives of Pope John
Paul II, international criminologists and representatives from the
Iranian Resistance.


Mideast Terrorist Threat to U.S. Troops, The Washington Times,
Dec. 5

        U.S. soldiers in Bosnia will be working under threat of
attacks by Middle East terrorists who have been fighting
alongside Muslim government troops during the past 44 months,
Defense Secretary William Perry said yesterday.
        "Everywhere our forces are deployed, we are concerned
about the terrorist threat," Mr. Perry said at the Pentagon....
        The key security concern focuses on foreign Muslim
guerrillas that Pentagon has identified as operating in Bosnia.
Estimates of their number vary from several hundred to several
thousands.
        Most of these forces are Islamic fundamentalists who fought
in Afghanistan, or Iranian Revolutionary Guards -radical shock
troops- who came to the aid of the Bosnian Muslims....
        U.S. intelligence sources told The Washington Times that up
to 400 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps are in
Bosnia. A key base is the Iranian Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia....


US Officials Worry About Iranians in Bosnia-Report, Reuters,
December 5

        LOS ANGELES - The United States is deeply concerned about
the presence of more than 200 Iranian Revolutionary Guards in
Bosnia and considers them a major threat to U.S. troops despite
reassurances from Bosnia's government, the Los Angeles Times
reported on Tuesday.
        The paper, quoting senior U.S. officials, said the Iranians
have played a significant role in training Bosnian Moslems and
Moslems from other countries who fought in Bosnia's civil war.
Tehran has also provided more than 5,000 tons of arms, mainly
small weapons, to the Bosnian Moslems, the officials said....
        The Times, quoting Pentagon officials, said the Iranians
differ from the other Moslem fighters from countries such as
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, who came
as free-lance soldiers. The free-lancers are not under the control
or command of any country.
        By contrast, the Iranians were the only unit sent by a
government, the paper noted....
        "Bosnia has been a major foreign policy concern for Iran," a
U.S. official told the paper. "A few months ago, the Iranians had a
whole week of Bosnian solidarity activities, marches and speeches
that drummed down the fact the West ...  paid no attention to
Moslem deaths. It's hard to believe this is a place or an issue Iran
is willing to easily cede or withdraw from."
        The Clinton administration fears Iran may use Bosnia as a
venue for attacking American personnel or facilities in retaliation
for tightened U.S. sanctions imposed last spring and for years of
American hostility, the Times said.
        "Iran has its own agenda apart from Bosnia, and if the
Iranians have an interest in targeting us, I would be concerned
about what happens in Bosnia," a senior administration official
told the paper. "It's a wide-open place and enormously tense with
some fertile opportunities."
        Agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence already have been
"active" around designated U.S. areas, the official added. "They're
very attentive to what the Americans are doing, not just
militarily. They keep an eye on us."