BRIEF ON IRAN
No. 328
Tuesday, January 16, 1996

Representative Office of
3421 M Street NW #1032
Washington, DC 20007


Iranian Resistance Condemns Kinkel's Trip to Iran, Statement by NCR,
January 14

        The Germany daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine has reported that
Klaus Kinkel, that country's Foreign Minister, is planning to visit Iran.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns this trip which
runs counter to the highest interests of the Iranian people.
        In light of the UN General Assembly's adoption, only three weeks
ago, of a resolution condemning the religious terrorist dictatorship
ruling Iran, and considering that in recent days the mullahs'
parliament brazenly allocated $16 million to terrorist activities outside
Iran, such a trip will only embolden the regime to continue its crimes
against the Iranian people and export terrorism and fundamentalism.
        The planned visit also comes subsequent to a decisive vote two
months ago by the representatives of the people of Germany rejecting
the trip to their country of the mullahs' Foreign Minister Ali Akbar
Velayati. The German Judiciary has also emphasized on the role of
Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian in the September 1992
assassinations in Berlin. The German Foreign Minister's visit to Iran,
there fore, demonstrates a blatant disregard for the will of German
people and their representatives who have called for a decisive policy
against the Khomeini regime.


Mullahs' Plot for International Terrorism Revealed, Associated Press,
January 12

        JERUSALEM - Iran, apparently fearing an attack by Israel,
devised plans to bomb Israeli military installations and kill Israeli and
Jewish officials around the world, a television report said Friday.
        The plans were found in an apparent Iranian intelligence
document obtained by Israel Television.
        Iran drew up the plans because it feared Israel, which had
convicted an Israeli of spying for Iran - a sworn enemy of the Jewish
state - would retaliate, the report said....
        The document included maps marking the locations of seven
Israeli installations that Iran planned to bomb. According to the
document, Iranian intelligence believed Israel was creating nuclear
weapons at these locations, the broadcast said....
        In addition, the document outlined plans to bomb airports in
Turkey, the Philippines and southeast Asian nations, apparently to
target other Jewish officials traveling there.
        The television report said the document had been obtained by
the brother of Herzl Rad, an Israeli tried by Israel for spying for Iran.


Iran Holds Memorial for Slain Hamas Leader, Reuters, January 15

        Iran held a memorial ceremony at one of Tehran's largest
mosques on Monday to honor slain Palestinian Islamic militant Yahya
Ayyash, dubbed "The Engineer" for his bomb-making skills.
        State-run Tehran radio said foreign diplomats, top Iranian
military commanders, Islamic clerics and local traders attended the
ceremony at the Ark Mosque for the
Islamic Hamas movement leader. It did not identify the nationalities
of the diplomats....
        Iranian parliament deputy Reza Akrami, a Moslem cleric, praised
Ayyash as a "martyr of the Islamic revolution of the Palestinian
people," the radio added....


Rampant Inflation, Israel Radio, January 13

        Iran's Central Bank officially announced that during the first
eight months of the year the average increase in prices was more than
25%.
        The daily Salam reported today wrote that just in the last month,
and tobacco products have increased by 3%, clothing cost has increased
by 4%, and the price of appliances has increased by more than 2%.