BRIEF ON IRAN
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran
        No. 358
        Wednesday, February 28, 1996



        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Mullahs' Majlis Elections Proves Them Incapable of Reform,
from a statement by NCR, February 27

        The mullahs' Council of Guardians rejected the
candidacy of Ibrahim Yazdi and two other Freedom
Movement nominees, endorsed earlier by the Ministry of
Interior. The ministry had already rejected another 11
nominees of the Freedom Movement.
        The individuals had been nominated despite the
elections' boycott even by many government factions and
clerics. The Freedom Movement had always emphasized its
loyalty to the "Islamic Republic" and the "Guardianship" of
the mullahs. The Khomeini regime used the Freedom
Movement over the past years for its foreign propaganda
and to put up a show of democracy and toleration of
"domestic opposition."
        The rejection of the Freedom Movement nominees,
despite their continuous advocacy of the mullahs' rule, is a
good indication of the regime's instability and incapability of
moderation. The Iranian Resistance has emphasized this
time and again in the past 15 years and is convinced that all
domestic and international calculations and investment in
this regime, to establish dialogue or to reach mutual
understanding, are absolutely futile and will only cause
harm and disgrace.
        Imposing unprecedented restrictions on the electoral
nominees from various factions is a very vivid
demonstration of the trend of exclusions within the regime.
It shows that the mullahs' illegitimate regime does not enjoy
the minimum stability for staging even a show of elections.
        As Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the NCR President, announced
earlier, this year too, the Iranian people will fully boycott
the elections. Mr. Rajavi described all forms of assistance to
and candidacy in this theatrics against the best interests of
the Iranian people and directly serving to prolong the rule
of suppression, torture, and executions.



Iran's Foreign Policy: Kill Dissidents Abroad
Tehran Uses Hit Squads as Vote-catchers

The Sunday Telegraph, February 25

        As Iran enters the final phase of its election campaign,
President Hashemi Rafsanjani is believed to have ordered
terrorist hit squads to conduct a series of political
assassinations in Europe.
        The latest victims were two dissidents murdered in
Turkey last week. Zahra Rajabi, a leading member of the
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), had five bullets
fired into her head at point-blank range after gunmen burst
into her Istanbul apartment last Tuesday. Abdul Ali-Moradi,
a male colleague was also killed.
        Mrs. Rajabi, who worked at the NCRI's Paris
headquarters, had been in Turkey for two weeks to assess
the plight of Iranian refugees.
        The killings follow the abduction and torture of an
Iranian dissident living in Germany three weeks ago. The
28-year-old student was kidnapped from his house near
Bonn by Iranian agents, taken to a house and tortured for
48 hours. He escaped while being transferred to another
house.
        According to information passed to Iranian dissidents
based in Britain, the German incident followed a visit by
staff from the Iranian embassy in Bonn to Tehran where
they received their instructions from intelligence chiefs.
Iran's largest intelligence center in Europe is based in Bonn.
        The increase in Iranian terrorist activity is said to
have been personally ordered by Rafsanjani at a special
meeting of Iran's Supreme Security Council in Tehran at the
end of last year.
        Ali Fallahian, the Iranian intelligence chief, and Ali
Akbar Velayati, the foreign minister, were among several
key Iranian officials who took part in the meeting, according
to intelligence sources.
        Iran's resumption of terrorist activity in Europe makes
a mockery of Tehran's diplomatic charm offensive to
persuade the European Union to improve trade relations....
[To Be Continued in BOI 359]


French Group Asks for Immediate Return of French Minister,
Radio France International, February 26

        Today, the Representative Council of Jewish
Associations asked for the immediate return of Bernard
Pons, the French transportation minister, from Iran....
        In its statement, the French Representative Council of
Jewish Associations asked for the official protest of the
French government against Iran for the yesterday's remarks
made by the Iranian officials regarding the assassinations in
Israel....