BRIEF ON IRAN	
No. 449	Monday, July 8, 1996


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


Egypt Rejects Meeting with Iran, Reuters, July 7

	CAIRO - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak said on Sunday his country had
turned down an idea by Syria that Egyptian and Iranian ministers meet to
resolve nearly two decades of differences.
	"There was an idea (for a meeting) but we apologized because Iran still
works against some countries and they are putting this idea about," Mubarak
told reporters....
	Osama el-Baz, Mubarak's top political adviser, denied on Saturday that
Damascus was working to end nearly two decades of mistrust between Egypt and
Iran, saying relations could not improve until Tehran stopped "supporting
terrorists."...
	"If Tehran wants to improve relations it must offer us clear proof that it
will not interfere in our internal affairs and will not support terrorists,"
Baz said.
	He said the Iranian leadership should also "stop trying to exert pressure
on the Arab states in the Gulf."
	Gulf Arab countries have accused Tehran of supporting Shi'ites agitating
for the restoration of parliament in Bahrain....
	Most Arab countries, with their predominantly Sunni Moslem populations,
have viewed majority Shi'a Iran with suspicion since the revolution that
swept the Shah out of power in 1979 and brought in a strict theocracy....


Expelled from University for Wearing Short Sleeve Shirt, Radio Israel, July 3

	The daily Salam quoting one of its readers said that it seems a student of
Tehran's Azad [Free] University, who was wearing short sleeve shirt because
of summer, was assaulted by agents.  This incident resulted in skirmish and
was brought to the University's Disciplinary Committee.


OnNewsLine

	(	Reuters, July 3  - An Iranian court has sentenced a bank director and two
accomplices to jail terms of up to six years for defrauding a state bank of
more than $800,000, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
	The daily Kayhan said the court jailed Abolhassan Chizri, director of a
branch of Bank Tejarat, for five years, and Nasser Nassirein, a client, for
six years for misappropriating 2.6 billion rials ($859,000) of the
state-owned bank's funds....
	(	Reuters, July 4 - About 400 students at an Iranian university got sick
after eating dinner at the cafeteria, a newspaper said on Thursday.
	The daily Jomhuri Eslami said more than 300 of the students at Tehran
University's Water and Electricity College were taken to hospital suffering
from fever and muscle aches.


News Overview

Rafsanjani's Killing Machine: The Training Camps fro Guerrillas
The Sunday Telegraph, July 7

	Iran has developed an extensive network of training camps which are being
used to train terrorists for operations around the world, confirming US
claims that Tehran is now the world's leading exponent of international
terrorism.
	At least 11 camps have been established throughout the country on the
orders of Iran's Rafsanjani. Some are used for training Iranian agents to
carry out attacks at home and abroad, while others are used to train foreign
terrorists who are sympathetic to the Iranian cause....
	Each of the self-sufficient camps is used for a specific purpose. The Abyek
camp at Qazvin, for example, is used for training in terrorist
assassinations....
	Other camps are devoted to training specific groups of foreign nationals.
Nahavand camp, in the Iranian town of Hamadan, is used exclusively by
Lebanon's Hizbollah Islamic fundamentalist group, which has carried out a
series of suicide bomb attacks against Western targets in the Middle East.
	The Fateh Ghani Husseini camp at Qom is mainly used by Turkish Islamic
militants responsible for a string of political assassinations in their
homeland.
	Although no direct link has yet been found to implicate Iran in the recent
bomb attack against an American military complex at the Saudi Arabian
eastern port of Dhahran, two Saudi dissident groups suspected of
masterminding the attack, in which 19 US servicemen were killed, are based
in Tehran.
	Iran's network of terrorist training facilities is ultimately controlled by
the Supreme Security Council in Tehran, headed by Rafsanjani, which
authorizes the various organizations to carry out their operations....
	...Given the size and sophistication of Iran's terrorist infrastructure,
there is little chance that the ayatollahs can be persuaded to mend their
ways. Indeed, all the indications are that in recent months Tehran has
intensified its terrorist operations, particularly in Europe. In the past 5
months 12 opponents of the Islamic regime have been murdered in Europe....
	German investigators have now found that the Iranians were planning to use
the mortar to carry out an IRA-style attack on the headquarters of the
National Council of [Resistance of] Iran (NCRI) located at Ouver-sur-Oise,
30 miles south of Paris.