BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 487 Thursday, August 29, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC Terrorists Supported by Mullahs Arrested in Egypt, Agence France Presse, August 27 Recently, the Egyptian security services arrested 44 Islamists who belonged to a cell which was "supported" and "financed" by Iran.... Police sources said: "according to their confessions, the members of the fundamentalist Islamic Jihad asserted that during their trips to Iran, the Tehran regime provided them with a great deal of supplies and pledged financial support for a series of assassinations that the group planned to carry out in Egypt. They also said that they had ample freedom in Iran and met with the leaders of many fundamentalist organizations...." Iran Urged To Sue Germany, Reuters, August 28 An Iranian newspaper urged Tehran on Wednesday to sue German officials for allegedly helping Baghdad build chemical arms used in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. "Germany's highest officials were responsible for approving the export of chemicals (for chemical arms) to Iraq and should be answerable for their very deliberate, terrorist and abhorrent decisions," said the English-language Iran News, which often reflects the views of Iran's Foreign Ministry. "Iran should seriously pursue this matter...and give due consideration to filing suit against high German officials who, through their conscious and anti-human decision, caused the agonizing death of thousands of Iranians," said the newspaper.... Iran Sues Siemens over Nuclear Plant, Reuters, August 28 Iran has sued Germany's Siemens AG (SIEG.F) for $5.4 billion in damages for failing to complete an Iranian nuclear power plant abandoned after the 1979 Islamic revolution, a state-run newspaper said on Wednesday.... "Germany is under America's pressure and that is why it postponed the completion of the Bushehr power plant for years and finally refused to complete the contract despite its legal obligations," [Tehran's ambassador to Bonn] Mousavian told the newspaper, which is published by Iran's official news agency IRNA.... Siemens' energy unit KWU started to build the plant in 1975, but the project was abandoned after the 1979 revolution and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. Russia has signed an $800 million deal with Iran to complete the plant in the Gulf port of Bushehr. Washington has objected to the deal, saying Tehran might use the technology to develop nuclear arms.... Mounting Evidence of Iranian Terrorism, The Washington Times, Jack Payton, August 28 It has become fashionable in certain European quarters these days to scoff at U.S. suspicions about dark terrorist plots being hatched in faraway places, especially Iran. According to the Europeans, notably the French, the Germans and the British, most of this talk about Iranian terrorism is your typical American exaggeration, paranoia and simplistic naiveté. The fact that all three of these countries just happen to be doing big business with Iran and want to keep it that way isn't a factor — at least that's what they say.... But let's start with those German prosecutors. They're trying an Iranian operative and four Lebanese accomplices on charges of bursting into a Berlin restaurant and gunning down a Kurdish opponent of the Iranian regime and three of his assistants — on the direct orders of Iran's two top leaders.... The Berlin trial isn't over yet, but it's already having repercussions. Prosecutors in Karlsruhe have issued a warrant for the arrest of Iran's intelligence chief on charges of ordering the Berlin hits. They're also putting together a case against Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani.... But even if developments in Germany haven't drawn a lot of attention, the charge that Iran is backing plans to assassinate Yasser Arafat and other high-ranking PLO leaders should... Yet another accusation against Iran comes from Bahrain, where the ruling Khalifa family charges Tehran with stirring up the tiny country's Shiite Muslim majority to revolt against it.... It's worth remembering that U.S. officials are convinced that Iran was implicated in the truck bombing that killed 19 Americans in June at Dhahran, only 20 miles across the Gulf from Bahrain.... There is little doubt the Europeans are aware of all these developments, possibly in even more detail than we are. That's why U.S. officials are more than slightly annoyed that the Europeans aren't putting all the pieces together to form a clear picture of how widely, and how menacingly, the Iranian intelligence services are ranging these days.