BRIEF ON IRAN
        No. 329
        Wednesday, January 17, 1996


        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        3421 M Street NW #1032
        Washington, DC 20007


Mullahs' Export of Terrorism, Frankfurter Rundshau, January
12

        Berlin - Iran's Ministry of Intelligence must have been
involved in the assassination of the Kurdish leaders on
September 17, 1992, in the Mykonos Restaurant in Berlin. The
BFV read out this information in the court on Jan. 11. The BFV
report continues that the working group from the Ministry of
Intelligence arrived in Berlin in early September 1992 and
made the necessary arrangements with the ministry's agents
based in Berlin, finalizing the plans and the latest information
on the place of assassination. Germany's General Prosecutor's
office has considered issuing an arrest warrant for Ali
Fallahian, Iran's Minister of Intelligence, since some time ago.


Israeli Envoy to Argentina Target of Alleged Terrorist Plot,
Reuters, January 12

        BUENOS AIRES - Israeli ambassador Yitzhak Aviran said
Argentina on Friday offered him special protection following
reports that he may be the target of an eventual reprisal
attack by Iran....
        "I thanked him very much and I turned down the offer,"
he said.
        Aviran said Israeli TV reported that it had gotten hold of
a purported secret Iranian document saying he and Argentine
Jewish community leader Ruben Beraja would be attacked in
case the Israelis were to strike against Iranian targets....
        The state-run Telam news agency said Corach tried to
contact Beraja to offer similar protection but found the Jewish
leader was out of the country. Beraja chairs the AMIA Jewish
center that was destroyed in July 1994 by a car-bomb attack
that killed 86 people.
        The Israeli embassy was also destroyed by a car-bomb
that in 1992 killed 29 people.
        The United States and Israel have said Tehran was
behind the blasts and in 1994 an Argentine judge issued a
warrant for the arrest of four former Iranian officials....


Suppression

Jomhouri Islami, January 9
        Brigadier General Golchin, the Guards Corps commander
in Khuzistan, southern Iran, announced that 43 (anti-riot)
Ashura battalions and 9 battalions of Az-zahrah launched a
maneuver "to preserve their capability and prepare them for
countering any form of activities against the national security."
According to recent ratifications, he added, members of the
Ashura and Azzahra battalions will enjoy salary raises and
special benefits in college admission.

Kayhan, January 10
        Ilam's Guards Corps launched a maneuver, code-named
Ashura, in the western border region of Salehabad. The
exercise aimed to improve the troops' combat and defense
readiness in countering anti-government actions.

State-run press, January 9
        Three prisoners were shot while trying to escape from
Adelabad prison, Shiraz. One prisoner was killed and the other
two wounded. [Adelabad is said to lodge mostly political
prisoners.]

Kayhan, January 8
        Police raided 110 houses in Tehran and confiscated
satellite dishes used to watch "corrupt western programs."
[The regime banned satellite dishes last April.]


Internal War of Mullahs, Israel Radio, January 12

        A group of seminary students in the holy city of Qom, in
an open letter against the authorities of the clerical
government have described the government's harassment of...
(mullah) Rohani.  They have demanded that the government
must at least permit him to leave the country.
        "Accepting the good and abiding by justice are clear signs
of humanity... But the oppressors of the time, who are ruling
Iran under the precious name of Islam, continue their
obstinacy against the good.  A clear case of this is the house
arrest of Seyed Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani...," said the letter.