BRIEF ON IRAN	 
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran           	
	No. 452	
	Thursday, July 11, 1996 
 
 
 
	3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007
 

"Graduate Course" in Terrorism, The Sunday Telegraph, July 7 
 
	[The Sunday Telegraph printed an article last Sunday 
on the Mullahs' extensive network of terror schools. Describing 
the Abyek camp located at Qazvin, near Tehran, the article 
says:] 
	The camp looks like a provincial town, with neat rows 
of shops and houses. But behind this genteel facade is the 
equivalent of a graduate school for terrorism, where trainees 
who have successfully completed courses elsewhere are given 
their final training before active operations. 
	The instructors provide trainees with the bodies of 
recently executed criminals for target practice. The aim is to 
enable trainees to see for themselves the effect produced by 
different weapons when fired at close and long range... 
 
 
Tehran's "Walking Cane", Agence France Presse, July 10 
 
	In an interview with the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung 
on Wednesday, Abbas Maroufi, an Iranian critical author, who 
used to manage a literary magazine, announced that he is 
seeking asylum in Germany and does not count on returning to 
Iran. 
	"I will be stupid to go back, because I would directly 
land in jail," said Maroufi the manager of Gardoon magazine.... 
	 He said: "after suffocating political opponents, they 
[the regime] now wants to silence the intellectuals and crush the 
writers."... 
	"To me, this regime resembles a human with one 
broken leg, using a cane to walk. It is standing and is walking, 
but if we remove the cane, it will tumble and fall." 
	Maroufi stated that Germany with its policy of "critical 
dialogue" is indeed a walking cane for the regime.... 
	[Commenting on the new repressive penal code in 
Iran, which includes wider use of the death penalty for crimes 
ranging from spying to insulting religious authorities, Reuters 
reported today that: "Some Iranian journalists and experts have 
privately expressed concern that they could now be charged 
with spying because they have contacts with Western media."] 
 
 
Refugee Children in Trauma, Iran Zamin News Agency, July 8 
 
	The Swedish general office of refugees announced that 
[Iranian] refugee children in refugee camps, are facing sever 
psychological problems.  Among reasons mentioned, were 
several years of waiting for transfer from one camp to another 
and lack of complete mental stability of the parents of these 
children.

 
Britain Saves EU from Shameful Compromise, The Times, July 
8 
 
	Here is good news for federalists and skeptics alike. 
The EU's "common foreign policy" has just avoided making a 
monstrous mistake — thanks in part to the beleaguered British 
stubbornly insisting on the right result. 
	EU governments have been struggling for years to 
broker a truce with the Iranian government over that 
inconvenient thorn in the side of trade and diplomacy, Salman 
Rushdie. To America's great annoyance, the Europeans have 
been holding what is coyly known as a "critical dialogue" with 
Iran. The EU state holding the rotating presidency, currently 
Ireland, holds the European side of the conversation. Recently 
there has been a good deal more dialogue than criticism; but 
Iran and its proxies have gone on treating the EU as a killing 
field just the same. 
	German police recently arrested an Iranian national 
suspected of involvement in the murder of Reza Mazlouman.... 
Quite apart from bullets and knives aimed anywhere in the 
world at people who have translated or published Rushdie, the 
main Iranian opposition group reckons that 12 dissidents have 
been killed outside the borders of Iran this year alone. 
	Tehran has never lifted the seven-year-old fatwa 
against Mr. Rushdie; a semi-official Iranian foundation offers a 
$2 million bounty to his killer. But the EU-Iran dialogue 
recently dreamt up a truce: Iran would confirm in writing that it 
had no intention of killing Mr. Rushdie or sponsoring anyone to 
do so. In exchange for this overwhelming act of charity, the EU 
would accept the "validity and irrevocability" of the original 
fatwa. 
	Now that this squalid surrender document has been 
torn up, almost nobody will admit to having supported such a 
formula. But by June 19, when the officials from the 15 EU 
foreign ministers who run the critical dialogue committee met 
in Brussels, most governments were in favor of the deal. Only 
Britain opposed the whole idea.... 
	[But] ... the scheme went in the bin. In Brussels on July 
1, the British delegate to the EU's "working group on Iran" 
found himself suddenly popular. Delegates fell over each other 
to object to unprincipled commercialism as a basis for relations 
with Iran....