BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 506 Thursday, September 26, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Germany Helping Mullahs' Nuclear Program, The Associated Press, September 25 Germany is unwittingly helping Iran develop nuclear bombs even though German officials insist they seek only to aid the country's civilian nuclear power program, a top U.S. official said Wednesday. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas McNamara rejected German attempts to dismiss U.S. concerns about its nuclear cooperation with Iran. "There is no way to do it without facilitating Iran's attempt to develop a nuclear weapons capability," said McNamara, who heads the State Department's political-military affairs bureau.... McNamara told reporters that German officials have a habit of confusing moderates with pragmatists in Iran.... "Searching for moderates (in Iran) is a pretty fruitless enterprise," McNamara said. He said the United States learned that lesson in a painful way a decade ago.... He said the Iranians are using their civilian nuclear program as a cover for developing nuclear weapons. An oil-rich country like Iran, he added, has no need for a civilian nuclear program. Iran Planning To Make Laser-Guided Bombs, Reuters, September 23 Iran announced on Monday plans to build a training aircraft and laser-guided bombs as part of efforts to become self-sufficient in military production, the Iranian news agency IRNA said. It quoted air force commander... Baqaei as saying the training plane... would be tested in February. Baqaei also said the high-precision bombs... had been successfully tested and mass production would start soon.... "Time Bomb Waiting to Go Off", New York Times, September 23 BAKOTICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina D ...The foreign men here are some of the roughly 4,000 volunteers who came to Bosnia as part of the effort by Iran and other Muslim countries to bolster the outgunned army of the Muslim-led Bosnian government during the war against the Bosnian Serbs.... A Western official who follows the movement of the Islamic volunteers said that there has been a pattern during the last few weeks of increased video surveillance of NATO installations, many of them American, by some of them. He said the foreign volunteers were closely allied with the Iranian intelligence agency and were "poised" to strike at NATO forces in Bosnia.... "If this situation is not cleared up it becomes a policy disaster," he said. "This is a time bomb waiting to go off," said a senior NATO official. "These mercenaries are all well trained, both as fighters and terrorists. While they are being kept under wraps now, the moment they are given the order to set off car bombs or carry out assassinations this whole mission could go up in smoke...".... The U.S. Embassy has sent what it says are names of foreign volunteers, including some who work in the Iranian Embassy and are believed to be senior operatives in the Iranian intelligence service, to the Bosnian government and asked that they be expelled from the country. Terrorist on Trial for Iran Dissident Killing, Reuters, September 23 An alleged Turkish Islamist hitman went on trial on Monday for the killing of an Iranian dissident and leading Turkish secularists, Anatolian news agency said.... Turkish media reports alleging that Cagirici [the hitman] had been trained by Iran to kill the country's opponents in Turkey caused a diplomatic row earlier this year.... Terrorism: Remembering The Duty, Le Figaro, September 17 [Continued from BOI #505] Ten years of critical dialogue, evasiveness and appeasing Iran, to confront coercion and blind violence, have led to no change in Iran's policies whatsoever. The murderous and sinister record of Iran did not prevent Total from replacing an American company in signing an oil deal with Tehran in 1995. Shouldn't we learn to lose some contracts in order to preserve our conscience? These differences did not stop the official visit of a French minister to Iran in February of 1996 in order to sign a road and building construction agreement.... Because of economic profits, an international oil embargo, which is the sole effective lever, did not succeed. No Misters diplomats! We shouldn't turn the page. Let's stop statements such as "we will do all that we can".... The United States could not succeed in condemnation of those countries who are suspected of terrorism. Therefore, it unilaterally decided to enforce an economic punishment. Through immediate actions, the terrorist countries must be forced to stop arming, financing and supporting international terrorism. If the solution presented by the United States is not suitable, what solution is being offered by Europe to confront terrorism?... The victims want practical decisions to be taken and enforced in order for the judicial processes to reach conviction of all those responsible....