BRIEF ON IRAN	 
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran
	No. 534	
	Wednesday, November 6, 1996 
 
 
 
3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007  
 
 

Another Iranian Dissident Assassinated, Iran Zamin 
News Agency, November 4 
 
	An Iranian dissident, Ali Mowlaii, was 
assassinated in the past few days in Islamabad, 
Pakistan, According to reports. This brings the 
number of victims of terrorism by the religious, 
terrorist dictatorship in this year to 15. 
	Another Iranian dissident, Reza Afshar, is 
also kidnapped in Islamabad. Other reports indicate 
that 7 Iranian Kurdish dissidents are kidnapped near 
Suleymania, Iraq, and turned over to the Khomeini 
regime's Guards Corps in the western Iranian city of 
Paveh.... 
 
 
Tehran's Agents Threaten Americans, United Press 
International, November 5 
 
	An Iranian-sponsored extremist group has 
threatened to attack American and Israeli targets in 
Paraguay, prompting the Clinton administration to 
urge its citizens to exercise extreme caution in the 
Latin American nation, U.S. and Middle East officials 
said Tuesday. 
	Although the threats were made against 
government targets, State Department spokesman 
Nicholas Burns said private Americans in the 
Paraguayan capital of Asuncion should remain alert 
during their daily routines to "surveillance, unusual 
events, unexpected visitors and strange vehicles or 
packages." 
	"This is solid information and we're very 
concerned about it," he said. "We are not talking 
about indigenous groups here....We are talking about 
a group that operates on an international level."... 
	Burns declined to specify from where the 
threat came. But U.S. and Israeli intelligence analysts, 
speaking under conditions of anonymity, said the 
threat was made by an organization that belongs to 
the shadowy network of terrorist organizations 
sponsored by Iran, such as Islamic Jihad or 
Hezbollah. 
	It would not be the first time that Iran's 
terrorist proxies had staged attacks in Latin America. 
Islamic Jihad publicly took credit for the bombing of 
the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires during 1992, 
which claimed scores of lives, and U.S. officials 
believe Iran was also behind the fatal bombing of a 
Jewish cultural center there two years ago. 
	Iran and the extremist groups it sponsors are 
violently opposed to the Middle East peace process 
and the existence of Israel.... 
 
 
U.S. Embassy In Saudi Issues Security Advisory, 
Reuters, November 5 
 
	The U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia has 
advised Americans living in the kingdom to "exercise 
extreme caution" against possible attacks coinciding 
with Tuesday's U.S. presidential elections. 
	The advice, issued on an embassy emergency 
telephone line on Monday, said "terrorist groups" 
could be encouraged to attack U.S. interests and 
facilities because of "elections in the United States, 
upcoming international conferences as well as the 
one-year anniversary of the bombing...in Riyadh."... 
	Five Americans and two Indians died in the 
blast which rocked a U.S.-run military training center 
in the Saudi capital on November 13, 1995.... 
	The Washington Post reported last week that 
Saudi authorities had arrested 40 people in connection 
with the blast and were convinced that Iran backed a 
broad conspiracy in the attack.... 
 
 
Group To Establish Iranian Caliphate In Egypt 
Destroyed, Agence France Presse, November 5 
 
	The Egyptian Interior Minister, Hassan Al-
Alfi, announced Tuesday that a Shiite organization in 
Egypt was destroyed in October. 
	The organization planned to turn Egypt into 
an Iranian Caliphate and its members are accused of 
conspiracy for overthrowing of the government by 
force.... 
	In five Egyptian provinces, 56 Shiites were 
arrested on October 20 and were accused of belonging 
to an underground organization linked to Iran.... 
 
 
UK Admiral Sees Growing Iranian Naval Capability, 
Reuters, November 5 
 
	Iran's navy has the potential to become an 
increasingly effective force in the oil-rich Gulf, a 
British navy commander said in Dubai on Tuesday. 
	"I have no doubt they are getting better at 
using the equipment they have got...They have got 
some systems that could be very effective," Rear 
Admiral Alan West, commander of the UK Task 
Group told reporters aboard aircraft carrier 
Invincible.... 
	Tehran in September said it would receive a 
third Russian-made Kilo-class submarine in six 
months, building on its position as the only Gulf state 
to have submarines. 
	Iran regularly carries out naval exercises in 
the important oil waterway.... 
	A senior U.S. naval officer said in March 
that Iran had boosted its naval firepower by fitting 
Chinese-built anti-ship cruise missiles on some of its 
warships....