BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 532 Monday, November 4, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 "Government of Iran" Responsible for Saudi Bombing, The Washington Post, November 1 Saudi Arabian security officials are holding about 40 Saudi citizens whom they have concluded were involved in the truck bombing of a U.S. military housing complex in Dhahran in June, and have traced the attack to a broad conspiracy that the Saudis are convinced was backed by the government of Iran.... The Saudi government has obtained confessions from some of those arrested as well as other evidence that it says implicates Iran as the instigator and sponsor of the attack... the sources said.... In their confessions, some of those arrested by Saudi authorities have pinned the ultimate responsibility for the explosion on the government of Iran itself, not on rogue elements or recipients of Iranian aid, the sources said. Additional intelligence information that corroborates this charge has also been collected by the Saudis.... Tehran Uses Embassies To Build Extremist Networks, The Washington Post, November 2 ...U.S. officials have said recently that they believe Tehran has used its embassies and other resources throughout the Middle East and even in South America to build and support an international network of Islamic extremist groups under its authority.... U.S. officials say the Lebanese-based Hezbollah, or the "Party of God," has received hundreds of millions of dollars from Tehran over the past decade and served as Iran's principal proxy for mounting terrorist operations.... Iran has been using its embassies around the world to establish Hezbollah cells "that operate under the guidance and with the intelligence of Iranian embassies," Philip C. Wilcox Jr., the State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, said in a recent interview.... France Admiral Cautions Against Iran Submarine, Reuters, November 3 A French navy commander on Sunday said Iran's acquisition of a third Russian-made submarine could make Western naval forces operations in the Gulf difficult. Iran is to receive its third Russian-made submarine at the end of 1996. It will join two other Kilo-class submarines Iran bought from Russia. "It (the submarine) represents a new factor in the security perception of the region from the West's point of view and it can make our naval operations difficult," said Rear Admiral Alain Bereau.... Bereau, who commands the French naval forces in the Indian Ocean, is in Doha to oversee joint French-Qatari naval exercises.... Regime's Demonstration Against U.S., The Associated Press, November 3 TEHRAN — Thousands of Iranians marched to the former U.S. Embassy on Sunday, burning American flags and chanting "Death to America" to mark the 17th anniversary of the seizure of the compound by Muslim militants. "This was the nest of spies where the Americans hatched their plots against our nation," Parliament Speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri told a rally outside the embassy.... "Our youth, the future of this country, understand that the struggle against America must continue," said the hard-line Nateq-Nouri, who is widely expected to succeed President Hashemi Rafsanjani in elections next summer.... Overview Iran Has Strong Links To Anti-West Terror The Washington Post, November 1 Charges of Iranian involvement in the June 25 bombing of a U.S. military housing complex here coincide with what Western diplomats and Arab officials call mounting evidence that the Iranian government is supporting terrorism against several pro-Western regimes in the Middle East. Iranian intelligence agents in recent months have provided would-be terrorists with training, arms, money, explosives, logistical support such as false passports and -- in one case -- round-trip tickets between Damascus and Tehran on the Iranian national airline, these sources say. Even before the bombing of Khobar Towers, a U.S. Air Force housing complex near Dhahran, in which 19 Americans died, pro-Western governments in Bahrain and Egypt had accused Iran of involvement in bombings and other terrorist incidents, including the attempted assassination in June 1995 of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.... "These are not allegations," Osama Baz, Mubarak's top political adviser, said of one such case in an interview earlier this month. "These are solid facts."... The United States has long called Iran a "rogue state" and supporter of terrorism. What is striking about the last six to 12 months, however, is the degree to which pro-Western Arab governments have added their voices to the chorus.... In another episode related by Baz, an Iranian embassy last June provided "more than 10" militants from Egypt's Islamic Group with false Iranian passports.... The Islamic Group members then traveled to Tehran on an Iran Air flight "prepared by the Iranian secret service," Baz said. From there they traveled to the Iranian city of Mashhad, where they received training, money and arms ... before they returned to the Arab capital, Baz said.... Bahrain has made similar charges of Iranian perfidy in connection with turmoil laid to Shiite Muslims, who constitute a majority in Bahrain....