BRIEF ON IRAN	
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran
	No. 501	
	Thursday, September 19, 1996



3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Mubarak Says Iran Wanted Him Dead To Dominate Gulf, Reuters, September 17 

	Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Iran helped the gunmen who tried to
kill him in Addis Ababa last year because Egypt stood in the way of Iran
occupying Arab land and dominating the Gulf states.
	In an interview published on Wednesday, he backed one of his senior
advisers, Osama el-Baz, who recently said that both Sudan and Iran took part
in the plot to assassinate him on arrival in the Ethiopian capital in June 1995.
	"There is information, the source for which is the confessions of the
terrorists who were arrested. They confessed that Iran was involved and that
it helped Sudan organize this operation," he told the London-based newspaper
al-Hayat....
	The gunmen were Egyptian members of the Gama'a al-Islamiya (Islamic Group),
the largest Islamist militant organization trying to overthrow Mubarak and
set up a strict Islamic state.
	Asked what interest Iran had in this, Mubarak said: "Egypt stands as an
obstacle to Iran's plans and its occupation of Arab territory and its
ambitions to dominate the Gulf region."...


"Serious Threat From Inside", Radio Israel, September 17

	Today, Majlis President Nateq Noori urged the commanders of the
Revolutionary Guards and the Basij forces to prepare their forces for
confrontation with what he called a cultural attack by experts, researchers
and university professors.
	Nateq Noori said the Revolutionary Guards Corps should not allow these
people... to attack the revolution from inside.
	He added that a serious threat is forming in the government agencies in a
"creeping manner". He emphasized that the enemy is using these conspiracies
to frustrate and wear down the revolution from inside and taint the national
figures.
	The comments by Noori were made in a meeting with commanders and officials
of the Revolutionary Guards who came to Tehran from various parts of the
country.


A Group of Writers Arrested, Radio France Internationale, September 17

	Last week, 13 Iranian writers were arrested by the Islamic Republic's
security forces and were held for interrogation for five hours.
	According to reports, the writers were gathering in the house of the
editor-in-chief of Takapoo magazine ... to make decisions about the bylaws
of a writers' center.
	The security forces entered the house at 10 P.M. and arrested all of those
present. The text of the bylaws and the minutes of the group's previous
meetings were confiscated.
	After interrogations, the writers were released on the condition that they
refrain from any free activities whatsoever.


More Traffic Accidents, Iran Zamin News Agency, September 17

	In a traffic accident involving a mini-bus and a truck in the
Andimeshk-Khorramabad road 13 people were killed and 10 people were wounded.
	In another accident in the Qazvin-Zanjan road, four members of a family
were killed instantly when their vehicle veered off the road and fell from
the Takestan bridge. 
	The main causes of such traffic accidents, which have increased
dramatically in recent years in Iran, are adverse conditions of the roads
and defective automobile tires. Due to sharp price hikes in Iran and dismal
economic situation in the country, most people cannot afford to change their
automobile tires in time.


Jewish Community on the Verge of Extinction, Iran Zamin Weekly, September 16

	...Eighteen years after the revolution, the Jewish minority in Iran is on
the verge of total extinction.
	The Jewish population in Iran before the 1979 revolution was about 120
thousand people. Eighteen years later, not only that population has not
increased —despite an almost 200% increase in the country's general
population in that same period— but it has declined to 20 to 25 thousand
people. 
	Lack of a judicial security, including special Islamic punishments with
racist overtone and further legal restrictions regarding education and
employment, in addition to many arbitrary incarceration of the Jews and a
recent killing of a Jewish businessman, Azizollah Lamé, has created a wave
of emigration of the Jews from Iran to such a degree that the historic
presence of the Jews in Iran since before the Persian Empire appears to
approach an end.
	These historically sad developments are taking place while, according to
historians, the Jews were one of the oldest Iranian ethnic groups that ...
have always had an effective role in creation and flourishing of Iran's
civilization and culture....