BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 396 Monday, April 22, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Conservative Mullahs Gain Majority in Majlis, Agence France Presse, April 20 According to the first results published on Saturday by the Iranian interior ministry, the conservative religious right gained the overall majority in Majlis. The radical left, which was virtually eliminated from Majlis in the 1992 elections, returned noticeably. On the other side, the regime's moderate wing, gathered around Rafsanjani, is the big loser of the elections.... The analysts say that the Combatant Clergy Association and its dependent groups will control 140 of the 240 seats in Majlis.... Iranian Military, Intelligence Remain at Work in Bosnia, Washington Times, April 19 Five months after the Bosnian peace treaty was signed and two years after the Clinton administration first gave its tacit approval to covert arms shipments, Iranian military trainers and terrorists are still operating in Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to U.S. intelligence sources and specialists on the region.... Pentagon intelligence sources said a small number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards -shock troops used by Tehran to export Islamic revolution- are continuing to train an Islamic brigade in Bosnia at six or seven camps in the north of the country. Agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security -notorious for carrying out assassinations of dissidents- also remain active in Bosnia and are working with Bosnian intelligence to expand ties to agencies of the Muslim-Croat federation, CIA sources said.... The CIA has identified several Iranians in Bosnia who have been linked to assassinations in Turkey, the sources said.... Turkey Warns Iran on Support for Islamist Groups, Reuters, April 19 ANKARA - Turkey warned Iran on Friday not to support Islamist militant groups on its soil amid a war of words between the neighbors over charges of spying and backing for radical Moslem gunmen. "Not interfering in each other's internal affairs...must be the definite basis for our cooperation," Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz told reporters before talks with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati. Anatolian news agency said Yilmaz had spoken strong words to Velayati on Tehran's alleged backing for the killers of secularist figures and Iranian exiles in Turkey. "I think it's the first time in recent years that Iran has been warned so strongly and clearly on this issue," Anatolian quoted a Turkish official as saying.... Death Edict Against Rushdie Will Be Eventually Carried Out-Tehran, Agence France Presse, April 21 TEHRAN - On Sunday, Mohammad Yazdi, the head of Iran's judiciary, announced that Khomeini's edict against Salman Rushdie "will be eventually carried out one day." In a press conference in Tehran, Yazdi said: "This edict relates to all the Muslims and will be carried out one day." According to Yazdi "the Rushdie problem will be solved only through realization of the edict." He added: "We cannot solve this problem through dialogue or under pressure from some countries."... Also the head of Iran's Parliament, Nateq-Nouri, reiterated his support for the edict and announced that he is "sorry that Rushdie is still alive." Clinton Criticizes Russia's Nuclear Deal with Tehran, Associated Press, April 20 MOSCOW - President Clinton hailed a Kremlin summit on nuclear safety as "another step back from the nuclear precipice" Saturday but said Moscow's insistence on selling nuclear technology to Iran was a setback.... Moments after the conclusion of the meeting, Yeltsin reaffirmed plans for an $800 million deal to build a 1,000- megawatt pressurized-water reactor in Iran. U.S. officials say Iran wants to buy a total of four reactors from Russia. "It's a bad idea," Clinton said. "We just don't believe that there should be any nuclear cooperation with a country who's trying to develop a nuclear program. We don't need any more states with nuclear capacity in this world to make weapons."...