BRIEF ON IRAN	 
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran           	
	No. 443	
	Thursday, June 27, 1996 
 
 
 
	3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 
 
 

Iranian Dissidents Seek Tough Sanctions after Saudi Bombing, 
Associated Press, June 26 
 
	Denouncing the Iranian regime as the "godfather of 
international terrorism," an opposition leader called Wednesday 
for the United States to intensify sanctions against Teheran. 
	Maryam Rajavi said Tuesday's bombing in Dhahran, 
Saudi Arabia, had all the signs of an Iranian-sponsored attack 
and underscores the urgent need for the West to act against the 
Islamic state. 
	"A resolute response is the only way," said Rajavi, 
President-elect of the National Council of Resistance, the main 
Iranian opposition movement. "This response requires a joint 
international effort and trade sanctions against the mullahs." 
	Rajavi spoke in London at an international seminar on 
Iranian-sponsored terrorism, attended by politicians, security 
experts and families of victims of Iranian terror...  
	Israel has asserted that Iran could have been behind the 
attack [in Saudi Arabia], and many at the conference agreed. 
	Officials at the Iranian Embassy in London declined to 
comment. 
	"I do not believe that anyone but the regime in Iran 
could be behind this action [the Saudi bombing]," Rajavi said. 
	"The Iranian regime is the only country that benefits 
from such inhuman acts. The regime thrives on crisis-making 
and creating instability beyond its own borders, precisely 
because it cannot address the enormous problems it faces at 
home." 
	British parliamentarian Lord Avebury, who chaired the 
seminar, agreed that the Iranians appeared the likely culprit. 
	"Their fingers are in so many of these terrorist pies," 
he said.... 
	"Critical dialogue had proved a total and abject 
failure," he said. He called for a plan to "contain" Iran's regime 
by toughening sanctions and reducing the size of Iranian 
embassies in Western countries. 
	Rajavi told the seminar that Iranian agents have 
intensified their covert actions abroad... 
	Rajavi herself has long been a target of the government 
in Teheran. In March this year Belgian authorities foiled an 
apparent plot to kill her when they intercepted a consignment of 
weapons on an Iranian ship docked at Antwerp.... 
	Explaining why Teheran had decided to step up its 
operations abroad, U.S. analyst Daniel Pipes said the regime 
was becoming unnerved by the increasing boldness of the 
Iranian opposition. 
	"The regime, I think, has lost confidence, and is 
therefore more intent on tracking down its opponents than it 
used to be," he said. 
	Pipes, editor of Middle East Quarterly and an advisor 
to Republican presidential contender Bob Dole, called on 
Western governments to draw a line.... 
	"We have to make it clear ... that we're not going to be 
intimidated by them," he said. 
British Parliament Group Accuses Iran of Attacks, Reuters, 
June 26 
 
	LONDON — A British parliamentary group said 
Wednesday that evidence of Iranian government involvement in 
a string of attacks on dissidents living abroad was 
overwhelming. 
	A pamphlet issued by parliament's all-party human-
rights group said that over the last 17 years more than 150 
assassination attempts on the lives of Iranian dissidents living 
abroad had been committed in 21 countries. 
	It said almost 350 people had been killed or injured in 
the attacks, in places as far apart as Karachi, Paris and Buenos 
Aires. Two-thirds of the attacks had taken place in the seven 
years since President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani came to power. 
	"The least that can be said is that in all the cases 
described, there was some involvement of persons employed by 
the Iranian government," said the pamphlet.... 
	[In another report, Reuters said that after a meeting 
between U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Israeli 
President Ezer Weizman in Jerusalem earlier on Wednesday, 
Weizman said he blamed Iran for the blast.] 
 
 
Mullahs Are "Fundamental Terror Factor"—Netanyahu, United 
Press International, June 26 
 
	JERUSALEM — Israeli and Jordanian troops combed 
the Jordan Valley on Wednesday for gunmen who killed three 
Israeli soldiers and wounded two others, Israeli and Jordanian 
sources said.... 
	Netanyahu placed blame for the attack on Syria and 
Iran, pointing to Jordan's previous report about the guerrillas 
staging attacks in Syria. 
	"There are several terror factors in the region and the 
fundamental factor is Iran and, to my regret, Syria, which is 
more and more acting like a terror state for all purposes," he 
said....