BRIEF ON IRAN No. 509 Tuesday, October 1, 1996 Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran 3421 M Street NW #1032 Washington, DC 20007 To Protect the "Islamic" Constitution!, BBC Radio (Persian broadcast), September 25 Secretary of the Allied Islamic Society said his group had concluded that the executive branch must be headed by a clergy so that the Islamic culture and principles may gradually be stabilized. Va'ez Tabassi, the custodian of the Holy Razavi Shrine, remarked that if the Constitution is to be safe from distortion, the clergy must run the three branches up to 50 years! More "Islamization" of Universities, Tehran State-Run Radio, September 25 This morning, the first national congress of Islamic Association of students opened its session. Natiq Nouri (Speaker of the parliament) remarked that Islamization of universities is a serious and pivotal matter and very detrimental in maintaining the independence of Iran - the motherland of the Islamic World. He emphasized that in a university with an Islamic atmosphere, the faculty must believe in Islam, Islamic values and the Islamic state. The texts must all be in tune with Islamic provisions... And the administration must adhere to Hezbollah. Best of Times for the Rich with Widespread Corrupt-ion of Officials, Sunday Times, Andrew Malone, September 29 TEHRAN - Times may be tough for the masses, but for Iran's rich elite they have never been better.... In a country where "western decadence" can be punished by imprisonment and torture, the capital's society figures get away with it by paying corrupt police to turn a blind eye to their excesses. Drink and drugs are taken with abandon.... As the rest of the country whimpers under sharia, the Islamic law that prescribes stoning to death for adulterous women, the rich have no problems satisfying their needs.... For the wealthy the way round such restrictions is simple: money. Policemen, the so-called guardians of the revolution, are paid to ignore the behavior behind high walls at houses in north Tehran... The young rich do not have to serve the compulsory two years of military service, living in hardship while patrolling sensitive border areas. About (11,000 is the price for an "exemption" from corrupt officials. "Sure, we have to pay for all this," said Afshin, 21, the son of a wealthy bazeri, or trader. "But otherwise life would be intolerable. It's all right for the poor: they're too busy struggling to survive to have time to complain.... Iran's Clerics Happy with Palestinian-Israeli Clashes, Foresee Summit Failure, Reuters September 28 - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati on Saturday condemned Israel for killing Palestinians and said the Middle East peace process was dead.... "Today the so-called contract of peace is dead and its strongest supporters today cannot dare put it forward very seriously," he said. September 30 - Iranian state radio on Monday blasted a U.S. sponsored Arab-Israeli summit as an election ploy by the White House and said it was doomed to fail. "Can a meeting whose final aims are to insure the position of the White House in upcoming elections and to suppress the new intifada (Palestinian uprising) be a solid basis for solving the acute crisis in the occupied territories?," Tehran radio said. "Many Middle East experts believe...that this meeting is doomed to fail," added the radio in a commentary. It was referring to the summit in Washington on Tuesday called by the United States to salvage the Middle East peace process threatened after a new cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence last week killed nearly 70 people.... Iran says Israel has no right to exist and condemns the peace process as a sellout of Palestinian rights. Wall to Protect U.S. Troops from Tehran's Terrorists Blocked, Reuters, September 29 SARAJEVO - U.S. officers said on Sunday that Sarajevo city authorities and a handful of demonstrators have blocked the erection of a protective wall around new quarters being prepared for American troops in Sarajevo.... "I'd say it wasn't spontaneous because the police and a front-end loader and a water truck arrived on the scene with the women and they pushed our work out of the street, cleared it all away," U.S. Army Major Bob Hammons said.... "There's a significant Iranian presence here in Sarajevo and Bosnia," Hammons said. "We must protect our men and women."...