BRIEF ON IRAN
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        No. 354
        Thursday, February 22, 1996



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Iranian Resistance Member and A Sympathizer Murdered
in Turkey, from a statement by the NCR, February 21

        Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council
of Resistance of Iran, cabled the Turkish President
Suleyman Demirel on the murder of Mrs. Zahra Rajabi and
Mr. Abdol-Ali Moradi.  The telegram reads in part:
        I just learned that Mrs. Zahra Rajabi (Mariam Javdan
Jowkar), a member of the National Council of Resistance of
Iran, refugee in France with travel document no. 91CT532,
was murdered last night or in the early hours of this
morning in Istanbul by the terrorists of the mullahs'
regime. A sympathizer of the Iranian Resistance, Abdol-Ali
Moradi, was also murdered along with her.  Mrs. Rajabi
had entered Turkey on January 27 for humanitarian
activities to help the Iranian refugees in that country.
        This is not the first time, the mullahs' regime has
made your country a hunting ground for its terrorist
operations against dissident Iranians.
        In 1992, Mr. Ali Akbar Ghorbani, a member of the
People's Mojahedin of Iran, was abducted by the terrorists
of the mullahs' regime in Turkey, mutilated and murdered
under vicious torture. Recently, the terrorists who had
kidnapped Mr. Ghorbani confessed to this murder.
        In the name of the Iranian people and their just
Resistance, I emphatically urge you to pursue, arrest and
punish the mullahs' terrorists, assassins of Mrs. Rajabi and
Mr. Moradi, who receive their instructions directly from
the regime's embassy in your country.
        Mr. Rajavi also sent separate telegrams to the U.N.
Secretary General and the Security Council, and to the
UNHRC Special Representative on the situation of human
rights in Iran, and called for the condemnation of this
crime by the international community and the adoption of
binding measures against the mullahs' regime.  In Mr.
Rajavi's telegram to the Turkish President, it is also said:
        As you are certainly aware, following the arrest of
some of the terrorists and the discovery of the body of Mr.
Ghorbani in 1993, then-Turkish Minister of Interior, Mr.
Ismat Sezgin, officially declared that the terrorists had
received their training in Iran.
        Also in 1988, another activist of the Iranian
Resistance, Mr. Abol-Hassan Mojtahedzadeh, was
kidnapped in Istanbul by the regime's terrorist-diplomats.
He managed to escape from the booth of a car with
diplomatic license plate while being transferred to Iran by
four of the regime's diplomats, subsequently arrested by
the Turkish authorities.
        There is no doubt that all these terrorist crimes are
organized by the Khomeini regime's Ministry of
Intelligence and the representation offices of this religious,
terrorist dictatorship. I would like to therefore urge you to
personally intervene and order the closure of the embassy
of the mullahs' regime in Turkey and the arrest of its
terrorist-diplomats. Do not allow your country to become a
hunting ground for the Iranian regime's terrorist activities
against its opponents.


Iranian Resistance Says Member, Supporter Slain in
Turkey, Reuters, February 21

        NICOSIA - An Iranian opposition group said on
Wednesday a female member of the group and one of its
supporters have been killed in Turkey.
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran ... said
Zahra Rajabi and sympathizer Abdul Ali Moradi were
killed in Istanbul on Tuesday night or Wednesday
morning....
        In June 1992, Mujahideen member Ali Akbar
Ghorbani was kidnapped in Istanbul and his mutilated
body was found in January 1993.
        Turkey blamed an Islamic fundamentalist armed
group trained in Iran for Ghorbani's killing but stopped
short of accusing the Tehran government of involvement....


UN Special Representative's Visit to Iran,  Agence France
Presse, February 17

        The UN Special Representative on Human rights
announced Saturday that a large number of people had
tried to meet him during his recent visit to Iran to speak to
him about their missing family members and their daily
living problems...
        Mr. Copithorne said that in brief conversations and in
letters, many Iranians complained that their relatives had
disappeared. A number of people had grievances over
being mistreated and the government's economic policies....