BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 482 Thursday, August 22, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Iran Will Have 3 Nuclear Plants in Less Than A Decade, Associated Press, August 21 Two 300-megawatt nuclear power plants China has agreed to build for Iran will be ready in about nine years, the head of Iran's nuclear agency said in comments published today. Reza Amrollahi, director of the Atomic Energy Agency, told the Salam daily that another nuclear power station Russia is building in Iran has so far cost $10 billion in current prices.... Washington says it fears Iran could use nuclear facilities for an alleged covert nuclear weapons program. Iran says it has no such program, and wants the facilities only for power generation. U.S. and Israeli officials have said Iran could have nuclear weapons in less than a decade. Greek Minister Calls for "Expansion" of Ties with Terrorist Mullahs, Agence France Presse, August 21 On Wednesday, Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos called for the "expansion" of relations between the European Union and Iran.... According to Pangalos "a formula should be found (along with Iran) to provides comfort for [British author Salman] Rushdie, and to allow us to expand the relations between the two countries."... Pangalos also called for "elevation of dialogue" between Iran and the European Union.... [The NCR issued a statement today indicating that the call by Greek Foreign Minister comes "as the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, in a strongly-worded resolution yesterday, condemned the flagrant and widespread violations of human rights and the export of terrorism by the clerical regime....Also last week, the Danish Foreign Minister unequivocally underscored the futility of the policy of critical dialogue." [The NCR strongly condemned the Greek Foreign Minister's remarks and indicated that "the experience of the past years confirms that appeasing the most barbaric religious dictatorship in the contemporary era will only embolden it to persist in the suppression of the Iranian people and the export of terrorism and fundamentalism."] 100 Casualties in Iran Shelling of Kurds, Reuters, August 21 An Iraqi Kurdish rebel group on Wednesday accused Iran of killing or wounding around 100 people in daily artillery attacks this week on its positions in a northern Iraqi enclave protected by Western allies. "They have been shelling the border area," Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Ankara representative Safeen Dizayee said. "It started on about (August) 18th," he told Reuters. The KDP said in a statement that a four- hour Iranian bombardment of the Iraqi Kurdish village of Qasrey on Tuesday caused around 100 casualties.... Barzani's group said Iranian forces had been firing heavy artillery shells and Katyusha rockets into northern Iraq from inside Iran every day since last weekend.... The KDP called on the Western allies to halt the shelling.... "This Iranian aggression has caused the death and injury of nearly 100 people and the displacement of tens of families," the group said. A small number of Iranian troops briefly entered northern Iraq last month and killed around 20 members of an Iranian Kurdish group based there.... Tehran's Assassination of Iranian Dissidents, Pinkerton Risk Assessment, August 21 ...Despite vehement denials by Iran of any involvement in the September 17, 1992, murder of the four Kurds at Berlin's Mykonos restaurant, German counterintelligence officials testified last January that Iran's intelligence service was behind the attack. Five suspected Iranian agents are on trial for the murders.... The victims of the attack were all members of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan.... In addition to the 1992 murder of the four Kurds, the Iranian government has been accused of directing the assassination of other exiled political activists, including eight such murders in France. Fatal Accidents Continue in Iran, Iran Zamin News Agency, August 20 Twenty three people, including 3 children, lost their lives in two accidents in the road from Bandar-Abbas to Minab, in Southern Iran. The first accident happened on Sunday when a truck collided with a passenger mini-bus, killing all 17 passengers of the mini-bus. The second accident occurred when another mini-bus veered off the road causing six deaths. Last year, the regime's commander of disciplinary forces (police) announced that Iran, with 40,000 fatal accidents per year, is the world's record holder of fatal accidents.