BRIEF ON IRAN
        No. 371
        Monday, March 18, 1996


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


Germany Issues Murder Warrant for Mullahs' Intelligence
Minister

        Associated Press (March 16), BONN - Germany has issued
an arrest warrant for Iran's intelligence chief for the 1992
machine-gun assassination of four Kurdish opposition figures at
a Berlin bar.
        The warrant for Ali Fallahiyan was announced Friday by
the Federal Prosecutor's Office....
        German prosecutors had considered filing criminal
charges against Fallahiyan during his visit [to Germany in Oct.
1993] but say they were blocked by Kohl's government, who
declared he was a "state guest" entitled to immunity from
prosecution.
        More skepticism about Bonn's ties with Iran resulted
from 1993 revelations that Germany's Federal Intelligence
Service had supplied Fallahiyan's service with computers and
photographic equipment. The same news reports said Iranian
agents had been trained in Munich in 1992....
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a dissident
group based in Paris, welcomed the arrest warrant, saying it
"offers undeniable proof" that Iran has a direct role in
"exporting terrorism and assassinating dissidents."
        Massoud Rajavi, the council's president, said in a
statement that "such placating policies as critical dialogue vis-
à-vis this sinister regime" must be scrapped.

        Agence France Presse, (March 17) - Following the warrant
issued by German authorities, on Sunday the Iranian opposition
called for UN's boycott of Tehran regime.
        According to a statement issued by the National Council of
Resistance of Iran ..., Massoud Rajavi, the Council's president,
has invited the United Nations to "break the silence and
boycott" a regime which is uncontrollable in terrorism.
        Mr. Rajavi recalled Tehran's previous charges, including
warrants "issued by a Swiss court against 13 terrorists" who
took part in killing of his brother, Kazem Rajavi. He also
recalled the conviction of several Iranian officials by French
courts.
        Rajavi stated that as long as Fallahiyan and other suspects
were not surrendered to the Western "judiciaries", the least
would be to suspend diplomatic and trade relations with Iran
so that the regime will not continue to take advantage of the
international community's silence."...

Iran Ayatollah Stresses "Resolve Against America", Reuters,
March 15

        TEHRAN - ... "Should we show them (the United States)
that we are not so headstrong? That we are also ready to
accept what (they) call peace, and to show weakness?,"
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in a prayer sermon broadcast on
state-run Tehran radio....
        "We should keep the same resolve against America that
we had during the time of the Imam (late Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini) and not be afraid of anyone...," Jannati said to the
worshippers who responded by chanting "Death to Israel" and
"Death to America."
        "America, you should know that this is the slogan of our
people, anyone who has other slogans than this is not one of
us," said Jannati at the gathering held at Khomeini's mausoleum
south of Tehran to mark the death a year ago of the late
leader's son, Ahmad Khomeini....


EP Condemns Clerical Regime's Assassination of Zahra Rajabi,
from combined statements by NCR, March 15

        In a strongly-worded resolution, last night the European
Parliament condemned the assassinations of Mrs. Zahra Rajabi,
a member of the National Council of Resistance and Mr. Abdol-
Ali Moradi, a Mojahedin sympathizer. It called on the EU
Member States "to increase their protection of opposition
leaders living in exile in their territory."...
        This morning, Mr. Zahra Rajabi, assassinated on February
20 in Istanbul by the clerical regime's diplomat-terrorists, was
laid to rest at Paris's Pre Lachaise cemetery, as more than
1,500 tearful and bereaved Iranians residing in France and a
large number of French political, humanist and cultural
personalities looked on....


France's Juppe Wants Iran to Back Mideast Peace, Reuters,
March 17

        PARIS - French Prime Minister Alain Juppe called on
Iran on Sunday to back the Middle East peace process and
condemn guerrilla attacks in the region.
        "If the Iranian authorities really want to convince us they
do not back terrorism, they should say so," Juppe said in an
interview with France's TF1 television channel.
        "What I want them to do is to categorically condemn
terrorist acts and back the (Arab-Israeli) peace process," he
said....