BRIEF ON IRAN No. 400 Friday, April 26, 1996 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran 3421 M Street NW #1032 Washington, DC 20007 Protest by 10,000 Sarvestan Residents Leaves Scores Wounded, Iran Zamin News Agency, April 25 The National Council of Resistance of Iran in an statement, today, reported that on Saturday, April 20, about 10,000 of residents in Sarvestan, in Fars province and 1,000 km south of Tehran, held a rally in the city's Sahab az-Zamaan mosque to protest widespread rigging in the second round of the sham elections for the regime's Majlis (parliament). The protesters began chanting slogans against Khamenei and Rafsanjani and attacked the home of the city's Friday Prayer leader, Bana'i, and the governor's office. The regime dispatched Fars province's State Security Forces, and the Guards' special anti-riot units to confront the angry throng. The Guards opened fire, wounding a number of the protesters. The NCR's statement indicates that 120 people have been arrested and identified the names of 14 of the detainees. Iran Blasts Palestinian Charter Changes, Reuters, April 25 TEHRAN - Iranian state radio on Thursday blasted a Palestinian decision removing PLO charter articles calling for the destruction of the state of Israel, saying it ignored the Jewish state's "savage" nature. "At the time when the Zionist regime (Israel) is exposing its savage and aggressive nature by violating Lebanon and massacring its defenseless people, the abrogation of these articles means ignoring Israel's real nature and making decisions on imaginary grounds," Tehran radio said in a commentary.... Iran Again, The Wall Street Journal, Editorial, April 25 Iran has been creeping back onto world's worry lists... For several years now, Europe has argued that isolating Iran's mullahs is tantamount to, in French President Jacques Chirac's words, cornering a cat. Far better with the Iranians to mix tough talks and trade, the Europeans insist. Iran seems to have its own formulation: far better to mix terror with trade. Iran still plays sugar-daddy to Hezbollah guerrillas (and assorted others), still opposes the Middle East peace process and thinks that Israel should be wiped off the map... Even after that affront, European leaders wiped the egg off their faces and tried again. A troika of foreign ministry officials from Italy, Ireland and Spain was dispatched to Tehran earlier this month... The Iranians sent them home empty-handed... German intelligence officials have amassed a dossier detailing how the Iranians Embassy in Bonn has helped mastermind terrorist attacks throughout Europe. German authorities at first attempted to suppress the news... The report was obtained by the Paris based National Council of Resistance in Iran and leaked to the press. Bonn has since been on a damage control mission. A German court recently approved an arrest warrant for Mr. Fallahian [head of mullahs' Ministry of Information]... The Fallahian case illustrates the extent to which the EU's policy of "critical dialogue" was a farce, one that later turned to a flop.... Europe's "constructive diplomacy" umbrella, if maintained, will allow Iran's militant mullahs to continue to flout established standards of international behavior without being held to account. Non- accountability, in politics as in business, has a way eventually of blowing up in one's face. Terror HQ, The Sunday Telegraph, April 21 The headquarters of the Ayatollahs' terrorist network in Europe is located in a fortified complex on the third floor of the Iranian embassy in Bonn.... The center is permanently manned by 20 Revolutionary Guards, whose task is to coordinate Iran's terrorist operations throughout Europe. Apart from them, only the Iranian ambassador and his deputy are allowed to enter. Other members of the embassy's 90-strong staff also work for Iran's intelligence ministry in various capacities to camouflage their activities... This is the conclusion that has been reached in a detailed report by Germany's federal internal intelligence organization, BfV, following an exhaustive investigation conducted into Iran's terrorist operations, a copy of which has been obtained by The Sunday Telegraph.... But the report, together with other highly sensitive documents, has surfaced as a result of investigations into the gangland-style killing of three leaders of the Iranian Democratic Party of Kurdistan and their translator in a Berlin restaurant in 1992.... Publication of the documents is deeply embarrassing for Herr Schmidbauer, who provoked a furious response from the British Government after it was revealed he had held secret talks with Mr. Fallahian in Bonn in late 1993. During the talks, Mr. Fallahian was given a guided tour by Herr Schmidbauer of Germany's intelligence headquarters at Wiesbaden... According to a third document obtained by The Sunday Telegraph -a report from the German Chancellor's Office - Mr. Fallahian used the meeting to pressure the German authorities to drop the case against a member of Hizbollah charged with the Berlin murders....