BRIEF ON IRAN
        No. 432
        Wednesday, June 12, 1996


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



Tehran's Intervention in Bahrain Not Surprising, Agence
France Press, June 10

        On Tuesday, Britain's ambassador in Saudi Arabia,
Andrew Greene, accused Iran of encouraging riots in Bahrain
and trying to destabilize the Persian Gulf region.
        In a press conference in Riyadh... Greene said Iran's
intervention in Bahrain is not astonishing and added that
Iran's goal is to destabilize the Gulf area. He said that the
European countries and the region's governments must
oppose Iran's intervention in the area and reiterated his
country's full support of Bahrain....


Mullahs' Terrorism in Bahrain, Reuters, June 11

        DOHA - France's foreign minister on Tuesday said Iran
must respect the principle of non-interference in the affairs
of other states and cooperate in the fight against
international terrorism.
        "I sincerely believe that Iran must respect the principle
of non-interference and contribute to peace and security of
the area," Herve de Charette told a news conference.
        He also urged Iran to "cooperate with the international
community in its move against terrorism."
        Charette's remarks came a week after the Gulf Arab
state of Bahrain said it had foiled an Iranian-backed plot to
topple its government by force and install a fundamentalist
Islamic regime....
        The United States has accused Iran of sponsoring
international terrorism and Gulf Arab states have urged
Tehran to stop "interfering" in the affairs of other countries....
        [In other dispatches, Reuters reported that Kuwait's
National Assembly and the United Arab Emirates Federal
National Council supported Bahrain and condemned the
interference in Bahrain's internal affairs.
        [Also the Agence France Press reported that Bahrain's
Crown Prince announced terrorism will be included in the
agenda of the Arab leaders summit which is to be held in
Cairo on June 21.]


Iran Accuses Egyptian President Mubarak, Radio Israel, June
10

        In its today's main article, the Jomhuri-e Eslami daily
accused Egyptian president of taking on a mission ordered by
the international Zionism in his visits to several Arab
countries.
        The article said that Mubarak has a mission to ... unite
the Arab front for continuing negotiations with the Zionist
regime and giving further concessions to Tel Aviv....


Fallout in Iran from the Vote in Israel, The Washington
Times, June 6

        ...In 1990-1991, it has been estimated that Iran bought
a total of $12 billion in weapons, $5 billion from communist
China, $4 billion from the former Soviet Union and $3 billion
from North Korea. Iran's five-year 1990-1995 total arms
budget amounted to $50 billion and is going up.
        With the help of communist China and North Korea,
Iran is developing its own missile production industry in
addition to those it has purchased in huge lots from the two
communist countries. Iranian missiles may not yet have the
range to reach Israeli cities but it's only a matter of time
before Tel Aviv will be within Iranian gun-sights. With Iran's
purchase from China of the 600-mile-range M-11 missile,
Saudi Arabia is already within range of Iranian launch pads.
        The aftermath of the Israeli election make little
difference to Iran's Rafsanjani regime and its terrorist
organizations headquartered in Lebanon with Syria's
blessing. Iran is the powerful unpresence at the so-called
"peace process" roundtable and its rulers have demonstrated
through Hezbollah and Hamas what suicide bombers can do
in broad daylight on the streets of Israel....


OnNewsLine

        *       Iran Zamin, June 10 - This year's budget deficit
for education reaches 2,000 billion rials which is doubled
since last year, said the Deputy of Logistics for the
Department of Education.

        *       Radio France International, June 10 - Tehran's
Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, called on the Arab
countries to take a lesson from their previous mistakes and
choose a different language against Israel.

        *       Radio Israel, June 10 - The managing editor of
the weekly Payam-e Daneshjou-ye Basiji --which is banned
for a second time-- is to be tried in Tehran today.