BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 543 Wednesday, November 20, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Iran Protesters Call German Embassy "2nd Spy Den", Reuters, November 19 Hardline Islamic demonstrators rallied outside the German embassy in Tehran on Tuesday in a third protest against German accusations that Iran ordered the killings of Kurdish dissidents in Berlin. About 1,000 members of Ansar-e Hizbollah (Supporters of the Party of God) chanted "This is the second den of spies" — a reference to the United States embassy which was seized by radical Islamic students in 1979.... This was the third protest rally at the embassy since a German prosecutor last week accused Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other Tehran officials of ordering the 1992 killing of three Kurdish opposition leaders and their translator at a Berlin restaurant.... The row threatens ties between Iran and its main trade partner. Also at risk is the European Union's "critical dialogue" with Iran which Bonn has promoted as an alternative to U.S. sanctions aimed at isolating the Islamic republic.... NCR Warns Against Mullahs' Terrorist Threats, Iran Zamin News Agency, November 19 Regarding demonstration by Tehran regime's agents in front of the German Embassy in Tehran and their verbal attacks against the governments of the United States, Great Britain, France and Israel, the NCR issued a statement today. The statement said participants in the demonstrations called on the Hezbollah to "punish the German Federal Prosecutor" and announced their own readiness to "deliver blows to Western interests worldwide." The NCR considered the remarks "sheer threats to undertake terrorist actions in Western countries" and added that "appeasement and critical dialogue have so emboldened the regime in using this weapon that today they brandish it against the honorable and independent judges and jurists of Germany". The NCR called on the world community to "boycott the mullahs for sponsoring international terrorism" and stressed that "the time has come for the Government of Germany to sever its diplomatic and economic ties with the criminal rulers of Iran to protect the lives of its own citizens and defend the sanctity of that country's honorable Prosecutor." Lebanon Hezbollah Slams Germany on Iran, United Press International, November 19 The Iran-backed Hezbollah on Tuesday slammed the German authorities for accusing Iran's supreme spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of ordering the assassination of Iranian Kurdish separatists in Berlin.... The [Hezbollah] statement warned the German government against "proceeding with such irresponsible practices which would not allow it to play any role in the Muslim world." "Germany will then put itself in a state of enmity with the Muslim nation, which will not keep silence over whoever harms its sacred symbols," it said.... Terrorists Warn of Possible Attack Against German Interests, Radio Israel, November 18 An unknown fundamentalist group, which is most likely receiving orders from Iran, issued a statement in Germany and emphasized that it might carry out terrorist attacks against German interests. Iran's state-run news agency reported that in its statement, Organization of Islamic Path called the accusations by German prosecutors..."insults against sanctities of the Islamic Republic of Iran."... The state-run news agency quoted the group as saying that Muslims in Germany will not remain silent in face of such accusations.... Iranian Artists And Writers "Are Indeed Mercenaries", Iran Zamin, November 11 Defending a weekly TV series, Ali Larijani, head of the state-run radio and television agency, accused Iranian artists, writers, journalists and intellectuals to be mercenaries for foreigners and said that these people think we do not know from which embassies they receive their orders. ...Larijani said: "...We will not tolerate those who insult Khomeini or the current leader of the revolution".... "At least, we know what you are doing. You want us to sit down in the Islamic Republic and let you write whatever you like," Larijani said. "These people intend to destroy the Islamic Republic and the Islamic government."