BRIEF ON IRAN	 
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran           	
	No. 460	
	Tuesday, July 23, 1996 
 
 
 
	3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007
 

Iran Exile Opposition Group Says Member Executed, 
Reuters, July 22  
 
	The main exiled Iranian opposition group said on 
Monday that Iran last month secretly executed one of its 
members in a Tehran prison. 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCR)... 
said Mujahideen member Merhdad Kalani, 35, was executed 
secretly in Tehran's Evin prison on June 22.... 
	In a fax sent from its Paris office to an international 
news agency, NCR said Kalani wrote in a letter smuggled out 
of jail in March that he had been sentenced to death. 
	He said the sentence followed a trial lasting 20 
minutes and he named 11 political prisoners who he said had 
been secretly executed in the prison, the NCR said.... 
	[NCR issued a statement today saying that: "Reports 
from Iran say that due to escalating domestic crisis at home 
and increasing international isolation as well as the 
expansion of the resistance in and out of Iran, in recent 
months, Khomeini's anti-human regime has executed large 
numbers of political prisoners who had been incarcerated for 
many years."] 
 
 
Executions Rise in Iran, Associated Press, July 22   
 
	Three men convicted of murder in separate crimes 
were hanged at Tehran's Qasr prison, a Farsi-language daily 
reported Monday. 
	The newspaper, Iran, said they were hanged Sunday 
at dawn. 
	Judicial hangings in Iran appear to have risen in 
recent months.... 
	[In a statement issued today, NCR said that claims 
by Reza Husseini, deputy chief of Tehran's "Islamic 
revolutionary" courts, indicating that "the number of 
executions has dropped sharply in recent years" are absolutely 
false and "only intended to circumvent increasing 
international pressure for persisting flagrant human rights 
abuses in Iran. While the total number of announced 
executions in all of 1995 were 81 cases, in the first six 
months of 1996, the mullahs have already announced the 
execution of 70 people." The NCR also said that "the clerical 
regime has escalated the secret execution of political 
prisoners.] 
 
 
Iranians Plot Bahrain Strife, Sunday Telegraph, July 21 
 
	Iranian-backed Islamic militants are using Britain as 
a base from which to orchestrate attempts to overthrow 
Bahrain's ruling family as part of a systematic campaign to 
destabilize the oil-rich gulf region. 
	Confidential documents acquired by the Sunday 
Telegraph show that Islamic fundamentalists opposed to 
Bahrain's Al-Khalifa family have set up a network of offices 
in north London which they use to co-ordinate their attacks 
against the emirate's rulers.... 
	...They are understood to receive their orders direct 
from Bahraini dissidents based in the Iranian holy city of 
Qom, a renowned hotbed of Islamic radicalism.... 
	According to Bahraini officials, the campaign is led 
by a dissident Sheikh, who sought refuge in Iran and is 
responsible for the estimated 250 Bahrainis resident in Qom. 
The orders are passed through Dar-Ol-Hekma (Farsi for "the 
house of science"), located in Qom. 
	The Sheikh is said to be the spiritual head of 
Hizbollah Bahrain, reputed masterminds of the conspiracy to 
overthrow the ruling family. The Bahrainis say he mediates 
between the Iranian authorities and the Bahrainis, most of 
whom have received training from Iran's revolutionary 
guards. 
	"The London offices receive their orders from Iran 
and then pass them on to activists in Bahrain," said a Western 
intelligence source. The activists then act on the instructions 
they have received to carry out terrorist attacks."... 
	The Bahraini authorities have regularly accused Iran 
of responsibility for the wave of disturbances in the emirate 
over recent months. Last month the Bahrainis claimed a coup 
when, in effect, a group of dissidents confessed on television 
to having received training and financial support from Iran.... 
 
 
TWA Bombing, Mullahs' Retaliation against US—Report, 
Radio Israel, July 21 
 
	While investigations by the U.S. security officials 
about the cause of TWA explosion and the death of all of its 
230 passengers is not concluded, the London-based Sunday 
Times reported in its today's edition that in a contact with the 
American embassy in Rome, an Iranian citizen with close ties 
to the Islamic government of Iran disclosed that there was a 
bomb planted in the American TWA airliner. 
	The Iranian citizen, whose identity is not disclosed, 
said that the bombing was carried out by agents of the Islamic 
government of Iran and is the regime's retaliation against the 
United States....