BRIEF ON IRAN No. 448 Friday, July 5, 1996 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran 3421 M Street NW #1032 Washington, DC 20007 Palestinian Confessed He Trained in Iran, Agence France Presse, July 3 JERUSALEM - On Thursday, the daily Yediot Aharonot reported that a Palestinian who participated in February 25 suicide bombing in Jerusalem, confessed that he received terrorist training in Iran... He had originally admitted that he only trained in Syria. The paper said this information has been relayed to U.S. agencies. Four suicide missions in February and March resulted in 62 Israeli lives. Mullahs Establish Terrorist Networks in the Gulf Region, Radio Israel, July 2 The weekly Al-Watan Al-Arabi reports that the Islamic government of Iran has created several terrorist networks in Kuwait which will carry out their terrorist attack throughout the Persian Gulf Emirates. According to the report, the Lebanese Hezbollah, which receives about $100 million from Iran every year, trains Bahraini and Kuwaiti Hezbollahs. [In another report radio Israel said:] According to Intelligent Newsletter, Iran recently sent $20 million and more katyusha rockets to Hezbollah . The katyushas sent recently have a range of 40 kilometers compared to the previous shipments of rockets with a lesser range of 10 to 12 kilometers. Germany Bends Backward for Mullahs' Terrorism Again, Reuters, July 4 BERLIN - A court trying five men accused of the 1992 murder of three Kurdish opposition leaders in Berlin agreed on Thursday to allow two witnesses living in Iran to testify in the German embassy in Tehran. The court agreed to the defense request despite opposition from prosecutors and relatives of the victims, who suspect the move is a ploy by the Iranian government to influence the trial. Tehran announced last week, just before prosecutors were due to begin their summing up, that it would allow the hearings to take place. Defense lawyers had been trying for a year to get Iran's permission for the witnesses to testify. An Iranian, Kazem Darabi, and four Lebanese are accused of assassinating the three leaders of the Iranian Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK-I) and their translator in Berlin's Mykonos restaurant in September 1992.... The high-profile case has put a considerable strain on German-Iranian relations, particularly after prosecutors issued an arrest warrant in March against Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahiyan accusing him of masterminding the attack. Lawyers for the victims' relatives believe the Iranians could exercise considerable influence over the witnesses. Clerics Ban Vice President from Editing Weekly, Reuters, July 3 TEHRAN — An Iranian court has banned one of the country's vice presidents who is the head of a moderate weekly magazine from engaging in all press work for a year, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The daily Resalat said the special press court also ordered Ataollah Mohajerani, director of the weekly Bahman, to pay 500,000 rials ($167) in fines for causing "public anxiety."... Mohajerani has been a close aide of Rafsanjani and a long-time contributor to the moderate daily Ettelaat.... Most Dangerous Roads, Agence France Presse, July 3 In an accident between the cities of Ahvaz and Bandar-Khomeini involving a truck and a passenger bus, 21 people were killed and a number of others were wounded.... According to the official figures issued by the transportation ministry, in Iran there are 40,000 accidents causing 3,000 deaths every year while there are only 2.5 million vehicles in the country. Iran's roads are considered the most dangerous roads in the world. OnNewsLine ( Radio Israel, July 2- Officials of the Construction Crusade are demanding the revision of the scientific books, used in Iranian universities, by instructors loyal to the government. institutions. ( Government-controlled Jom-huri Eslami, July 1- Lack of monetary change has become one of the daily headaches of the people in the city of Mashad. Every day, when people go to shops and stores for buying their groceries, they return with a handful of bus-fare tickets and candies which they were forced to accept as change... Even some banks are using the bus-fare tickets instead of change... ( Agence France Presse, July 4- The English-language daily International Kayhan in commentary wrote that the Iranian notes are so dirty, old, ragged, smell and contains microbes that even beggars are not willing to accept them.