BRIEF ON IRAN	
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran           	
	No. 464	
	Monday, July 29, 1996



	3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Tehran's Terrorism in the Middle East, United Press International, July 26

	...A Saudi extremist group called the Movement for Islamic Change took
credit for the... bombing [of a joint U.S.-Saudi military training center in
Riyadh, in November] and U.S. officials say it is a leading suspect in
the... attack [against an American military barracks near Dhahran, in June].
The violent organization, which U.S. officials say may have links to Iran,
Libya and Syria, also issued a veiled threat to attack American targets the
night before TWA Flight 800 exploded and plunged into waters off Long Island.
	There has been similar unrest and violence in nearby Bahrain....Bahraini
officials have privately accused Iran, which is mostly Shiite, of fomenting
the unrest.
	U.S. officials see the hand of Iran, which openly backs guerrilla movements
in southern Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian self-rule areas in the Gaza Strip
and West Bank, in most Middle East-related extremism....
	The United States and some Persian Gulf nations have been watching warily
an Iranian military buildup around the Straits of Hormuz, gateway to the
Persian Gulf. U.S. officials say Iran has deployed Hawk anti-aircraft
missiles near the straits as well as artillery and more troops on the
disputed islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunbs and the Lesser Tunbs....


Terrorists in Egypt Kill Farmer, United Press International, July 27  

	Suspected Muslim extremists in central Egypt killed Saturday a farmer and
wounded his brother as they accused them of being police informers.
	Security sources said the assailants... are believed to be members of the
hard-line el-Gamaa el- Islamiya, or Islamic Group....
	More than 1,000 people have been killed and many more wounded since Muslim
insurgents launched their violent campaign in March 1992 to replace Egypt's
secular government with an Iran-style theocratic rule....


Sons of Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Shirazi Tried in Secret, Iran Zamin News
Agency, July 27

	Reports from Iran indicate that the sons of Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad
Shirazi, Morteza and Mehdi, are being tried in secret by the Special
Clerical court. They were arrested a month ago and will most probably be
sentenced to death.
	The NCR reported that "Agents of the regime's Intelligence Ministry
arrested Seyed Mehdi Shirazi, 21, some one month ago on Qom's express way as
he was going to Tehran to visit his mother who was hospitalized at the time.
It is said that the arrest of Seyed Mehdi and the prosecution of he and his
brother are because of their father's opposition to the Marja'iat (supreme
leadership) of Khamenei." 
News Overview

Mullahs' Savage Attack against 
Iranian Kurds

	On July 24, the Iranian resistance reported that the clerical regime's
intelligence and terrorist bodies had markedly intensified their activities
in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The resistance said that simultaneous with
Rafsanjani's late-July trip to western Iran, commanders of the Guards Corps'
Hamzeh and Ramazan garrisons, including the Ramazan garrison's commander and
its intelligence chief, commander of Nasr garrison in Naqadeh and commander
of Zafar garrison in Kermanshah, departed for the Iraqi Kurdistan. It was
also reported that 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.
	The Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, the radio broadcast of the Kurdistan
Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), reported on Sunday that late Thursday, July
26, several thousand troops of the Mullahs Guards Corps, armed with katyusha
rockets and heavy weapons, started crossing the border via Marivan and went
deep into the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
	According to the radio, in the early hours of Sunday, July 28, regime's
forces started heavy shelling of the KPDI's positions and the camps where
the Iranian Kurdish refugees are being housed. On Sunday, Agence France
Presse said that IRNA quoted a commander of the mullahs' forces as saying
that "due to the widespread bombardment of the Kurdish... positions, the
number of those killed may be very high."
	The NCR issued a statement on Sunday saying that this is not the first time
"the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship is taking advantage of the
circumstances in northern Iraq and invading the area under the control of
the Allied Forces, to bombard and kill the Kurds and Iranian Kurdish groups.
The international community's silence towards these crimes has so emboldened
the regime that it officially claims responsibility." 
	Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the President of the NCR, condemned the mullahs savage
attack against the Iranian Kurds. He called the attack "a blatant violation
of the Security Council resolutions" and urged the United Nation's Security
Council to immediately take a stance against the attack.