BRIEF ON IRAN
No. 485
Tuesday, August 27, 1996

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


On Clerics Expansionism: Earth with One Nation and One Government, State-run
Television, August 24

	Meshkini [Representative of Khamenei in city of Qom's Friday prayer's
sermon]: "From the first day, God has had two types of governments, Adam's
Government and Devil's Government.  These two have always been and will
always be.  
	Until God makes all governments as one.  All borders must be removed.  One
government on the Earth.
	Then Iran, Iraq, Turkey, the United States, Russia, all shall be resolved.
One government must be formed.  There must be one ruler...  At the top of
that government... is a great and scholarly man such as Khamenei. God has
given us the Islamic government...


U.S. Says Iran Has No Role to Play in N. Iraq, Reuters, August 26

	The United States said on Monday that it saw no useful role for Iran to
play in northern Iraq, where a shaky U.S.-brokered cease-fire has had some
success in curbing inter-Kurdish fighting.
	"Iran, in our view, can play no useful role in northern Iraq in this
conflict among the Kurdish factions," the State Department said.
	Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, in remarks published earlier
in the day, had claimed only Iran could bring peace to the area....
	Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz Sunday accused Iran of taking sides
in the latest flare-up and described Tehran's action as "hostile, flagrant
... and harboring serious expansionist tendencies."...
	Iran sent a small force into northern Iraq last month in pursuit of
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) rebels....


Revolutionary Guards Still Inside Iraq, Agence France Presse, August 25

	An Iranian Kurdish leader said that since its offensive in July against
Iranian Kurds, Iran is still maintaining forces inside Iraq and may carry
out new attacks.
	Mohammad Nadi Kadri, representative of Iran's Kurdish Democratic Party in
Iraq, told AFP that "Iranians have withdrawn part of their forces from
northern Iraq, but the revolutionary guards still remain in that region."
	He said that "it is likely that Iran would carry out new attacks."
According to Kadri, "Iran's objective from invading northern Iraq is not [to
mediate among] various Iraqi Kurdish groups, but to crack down on Iran's
Kurdish Democratic Party."


Iran Bans Sending Students Abroad, Radio Israel, August 25

	Two months after Khamenei's remarks on the need for further Islamitization
of universities and to end the transfer of students abroad, it was formally
announced that this program is terminated.  Moreover, a number of faculties
are discharged, and the grounds are being prepared to carry out Khamenei's
other orders.
	The Minister of Culture and Higher Education, Mohammed Reza Golpaygani,
said soon the students who are families of veterans of war and revolution,
will be teaching in universities, replacing the faculty who have been so far
tolerated...
	In a related development, the daily Resalat reported that the president of
Amir-Kabir Technology University was discharged.  Serious confrontations had
occurred between Ansar-e Hezbollah and Association of Islamic Students and
ordinary students in this university.


Guards Raid Dance Party, Associated Press, August 24  

	TEHRAN — Twenty-eight teen-agers arrested for attending a dance party have
been sentenced to jail terms, whippings and fines, a newspaper reported
Saturday.
	The party in a northern suburb of Tehran was raided by security forces, who
arrested the teen-agers and the 48-year-old owner of the house, said the
Farsi-language newspaper Kayhan....


Economic Hardship Forces Mullahs to Ease Rules on Carpet Exports, Reuters,
August 26

	TEHRAN - Iran has eased price controls to try to reverse a 40 percent fall
in Persian carpet exports, its second largest hard currency earner after
oil, newspapers and traders said on Monday....
	Traders said officials had agreed to cut by about 10 percent the values set
on carpets being exported, lowering the amount of hard currency that has to
be repatriated by exporters....
	Traders and newspapers had expressed concern over the fall in the exports,
Iran's largest after oil, and urged measures to support the carpet weaving
industry which employs about two million people....