BRIEF ON IRAN	
No. 462
Thursday, July 25, 1996

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


White House Will Sign Iran-Libya Sanction, CBS Evening News, July 24

	White House officials said today President Clinton will sign a new trade
sanction bill to punish foreign firms that invest in oil and gas projects in
Libya and Iran.
	Some of the loudest protests over President's move is coming from U.S.
allies in Europe who have huge investments in both those countries.


Iran Criticizes U.S. Sanctions Vote, Reuters, July 24

	TEHRAN - Iran on Wednesday termed "raw and ineffective" U.S. congressional
approval of tough new economic sanctions against Iran and Libya....
	A ministry official told Reuters: "The quote in Kayhan daily is the
official reaction of the ministry."...
	"The policy of economic sanctions is incompatible with realities of today's
world. American sanctions against Iran will lead to their own isolation in
international trade," the source added....
	Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Vaezi said: "If America persists too much
on carrying out this plan, the confrontation between Europe and America will
reach a higher stage and could even be transformed into a trade war."...


German Top Intelligence Official Makes a Secret Trip to Iran, Iran Zamin
News Agency, July 24

	Iranian Resistance sources within the clerical regime have reported that in
order to secure the cooperation of the mullahs, Mr. Bernd Schmidbauer, the
intelligence advisor to the German Chancellor, secretly visited Tehran. It
was following this trip that he boasted of the benefits of "dialogue" and
not even "critical dialogue" with Tehran's blood-drenched rulers. 
	During this two-day trip, which both sides stressed it be kept secret, the
regime's leaders asked Schmidbauer to arrange for the release of Kazem
Darabi, the terrorist agent who commanded the assassination of four Iranian
dissidents in September 1992 at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin, to revoke
the arrest warrant for Ali Fallahian, the regime's Intelligence Minister,
and to institute restrictions against the Iranian Resistance in Germany.
	The Iranian Resistance in an statement condemned "behind-the-scenes
dealings and collusion with the mullahs ruling Iran, whose crimes can only
be compared with Hitler's Nazism."


Rafsanjani Orders Dispatch of Weapons to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran Zamin News
Agency, July 24

	Simultaneous with Rafsanjani's late-July trip to western Iran, several
commanders of the Guards in western Iran, departed for the Iraqi Kurdistan. 
	The dispatch via the border in the Marivan region of trucks loaded with
weapons and ammunition, including different types of missiles, began on July 20.
	Reportedly, the regime's Intelligence Ministry has put the implementation
of a significant number of terrorist schemes and operations in the Iraqi
Kurdistan and other regions of that country on its agenda.
	In recent weeks, the regime has tried to complete the information it needs
through renewed activities by its intelligence bases and agents in routes in
northern Iraq which lead to the bases of the National Liberation Army of
Iran. To this end, the regime's agents have been stationed in the Iraqi
cities of Kifri and Kelar.


The Lingering Threat of Mullahs in Bosnia, Voice of America, July 24

	Bosnia may soon be another Lebanon filled with sectarian strife.  That is
the warning of Guido Olympio, a reporter on terrorism for the "Corriere
Della Serra" newspaper in Milan, Italy.  He told a U.S. Congressional Task
Force on Terrorism that Islamic militants in Bosnia operate on a master plan
conceived in Iran.
	Olympio: "For Iran, Islamic groups, there is a big chance to create a
network of safe houses, training camps to strike in Europe or in other parts
of the world... They use Bosnia as a bridge head to western countries."
	... Kenneth Katzman, an analyst at the Congressional Research Service...
says a couple of years ago, there were some two thousand Islamist fighters
from other countries in Bosnia.  Now he estimates there are 200, mostly from
Iran, though more important than their numbers suggest.
	Katzman: "The Iranians are well dug in reportedly in the military and
intelligence services of the Bosnian government, and they are well placed to
carry out possible attacks against U.S. forces if they should choose to do so...
	"They are  not  easily extricated because they are blended in.  In many
cases they have married local women.  Some of them are working as diplomats
in the Iranian embassy or employees of the new Iranian Cultural Center in
Sarajevo.  You have Iranians coming in from Croatia through Iran's embassy..."
	Mr. Katzman says there is little chance the foreign militants will turn the
more secular-minded Bosnians into fundamentalists. But the continuing secret
alliance between Bosnia and Iran is worrisome....