BRIEF ON IRAN
        No. 361
        Monday, March 4, 1996


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


Iranian Resistance Condemns the Bombing And Killing of
Innocent People in Jerusalem, from a statement by NCR, March
3

        The National Council of Resistance of Iran strongly
condemns today's explosion in Jerusalem which left scores
killed or wounded and extends condolences to the families of
the victims.
        Such terrorist crimes are only desirable for the religious,
terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran which is the principal enemy
of peace in the Middle East and the fountainhead of exporting
fundamentalism and terrorism.
        The Khomeini regime's radio, television and print media
welcomed last Sunday's explosion in Jerusalem. Only three days
after, on Wednesday, February 28, Hassan Habibi, Rafsanjani's
first deputy, and Ali Akbar Velayati, the mullahs' foreign
minister, met a number of groups in the region, who are the
enemies of the peace process, and stressed upon the clerical
regime's support for them and such terrorist acts.



Mullahs and Their Agents Laud Jerusalem Bombing, Reuters,
March 3

        JERUSALEM - ...Iran, accused by Israel and the United
States of funding the suicide bombers, said the bombings
proved the power of Islamist Palestinian groups and showed
Israel had failed in achieving its goals in making peace with
Arafat.
        "The intensification of the operations by anti-Zionist
Palestinian groups and efforts by the Zionist regime to offset
them have destabilized the process of collusion," state-run
Tehran Radio said in a commentary....
        In Lebanon, pro-Iranian Hizbollah said "murder and
gunpowder" were the only language Israel understood.


Tehran Tries to Strengthen Its Influence in Bosnia, The New
York Times, March 3

        The Bosnian Government has sent soldiers to Iran for
training as part of an effort to revamp its military, senior
Western and Bosnian Government officials say.
        Two Bosnian officials who confirmed the training but who
spoke on condition of anonymity refused to say how many
Bosnian troops were in Iran or when they had arrived.
        But European countries with embassies in Iran say there
are probably "a few hundred" Bosnians who are being trained
or have recently been trained in light-infantry tactics.
        "Our Foreign Ministry has received steady reports of
Bosnians going to Iran for training," said a senior European
military officer who spoke on the condition that he and the
country he represents not be identified, "but we do not have
any precise numbers."
        "What we worry about," the officer continued, "is not the
level of military expertise that will be achieved in Iran by
these Bosnians, but the indoctrination of Islamic ideology that
is also part of any training program."
        The training combined with the presence of 150 to 200
Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Bosnia in violation of the
Balkan peace accord, is likely to anger and alarm Bosnia's
Western backers and underscores the efforts of Iran's militant
Islamic Government to forge close ties to the Muslim-led
Bosnian Government....
        NATO troops recently uncovered what they called a
training center outside Sarajevo run by Iranians that contained
material for classes in bomb-making and kidnapping. The
Iranians were expelled from Bosnia after the NATO raid,
though the Bosnian Government said the center was in fact an
anti-terrorist cell.
        Iran and militant Islamic groups run some four dozen
Islamic charities in Bosnia.  NATO officials contend that the
charities are used as a cover to bring in military equipment
and soldiers....
        The Iranians hope to gain influence in the Bosnian
military, NATO officials say, and have begun a concerted effort
to assist the careers of senior Bosnian commanders who are
sympathetic  to their brand of militant Islam, the NATO
officials said....