BRIEF ON IRAN	 
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran
	No. 556
	Wednesday, December 11, 1996 
 
 
 
 
3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 
 
 
 

"Contact Us Before Attacking Bookstores", Iran 
Zamin Weekly, December 9 
 
	In an interview with reporters in the city of 
Tabriz, Mir Saleem, Iran's Minister of Guidance, 
said that: "The censorship committees are dutiful to 
complete the books' censorship and supervision 
prior to publication of the books," the daily Salaam 
reported. 
	"While currently the censorship is 
conducted in a centralized fashion, but upon 
recruiting sufficient forces qualified in appraisal of 
various books, the authority can be given to other 
cities and cultural sources," Salaam quoted Mir 
Saleem as saying. 
	He...called the Hezbollahis and the thugs 
his "friends" and said that: "In our talks with all of 
our friends who are sensitive about these issues, it 
was decided for them to contact the Ministry [of 
Guidance] and obtain necessary information before 
they directly act." 
	The Minister of Guidance did not prohibit 
his friends from attacking bookstores, but said it is 
better to contact his Ministry before attacking the 
bookstores.... 
 
 
Iran Seizes 1,500 Satellite Dishes in November 
Raid, Reuters, December 10  
 
	Iran seized 1,500 banned satellite dishes in 
a crackdown last month, a local newspaper said on 
Tuesday. 
	Tehran police chief Brigadier Reza 
Abolfathi told the Jomhuri Eslami daily all the 
illegal equipment was seized in a two-day 
operation.... 
	In April 1995, Iran ordered all satellite TV 
equipment dismantled after banning it to fight a 
Western "cultural invasion." Dish owners face fines 
of three million rials ($1,000) and confiscation of 
their equipment.... 
 
 
Mullahs' Role in International Terrorism, Radio 
Israel, December 8 
 
	Two days ago in Istanbul, Turkish security 
forces arrested 15 people who confessed that they 
were trained in Iran for subversive acts, the Middle 
East News Agency reported. 
	They confessed that their goal was to 
overthrow the Turkish secular government and 
establishing an Islamic regime similar to that in 
Iran by resorting to fire-arms.... 
	The Turkish government officials have not 
yet reacted to the report. 
	[In a separate report on December 8, Radio 
Israel said that based on printed news in 
government media in Iran, an important figure of 
the Intelligence Ministry, Mehdi Mahmoudi, was 
killed. Radio Israel quoted the Jomhuri Eslami 
daily as saying that the highest officials of the 
Defense Ministry and "the nation of Hezbollah" 
participated in the burial ceremonies of 
Mahmoudi.] 
 
 
Tehran Regime Executes Another Iranian Kurd, 
Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, December 7 
 
	According to a report by the Kurdistan 
Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)-Mahabad 
Committee, Bayazeed Parizan, a sympathizer of the 
Kurdish people and a supporter of the KDPI was 
executed in the Revolutionary Guards prison on 
November 18. He had been arrested two years 
earlier by the security forces of the clerical regime 
in the city of Mahabad. 
	Parizan's body was submitted to his family 
on November 25. Meanwhile, Regime's security 
agents threatened his family not to conduct a public 
funeral held a memorial session for Parizan.... 
 
 
Rushdie Tells EU To Show "Teeth" Against Iran 
Fatwa, Reuters, December 10 
 
	British author Salman Rushdie told the 
European Union on Tuesday that its attempts to lift 
an Iranian death threat hanging over him had been 
largely ineffective and needed "teeth" to make them 
worthwhile.... 
	"I do think that the critical dialogue has 
been largely ineffective and one of the reasons for 
that is it seems to have very few teeth," he said. 
"I'm interested in ways in which teeth can be 
inserted into the process."... 
	[Irish foreign minister Dick Spring] 
conceded that the EU's approach had borne little 
fruit so far.... 
	Rushdie said Britain had warned him his 
life was still in danger. "I am happy to say that 
there hasn't been any sort of close attempt on my 
life, nobody's ever got particularly close to me," he 
said. "But what remains is the very serious threat 
from the Iranian government." 
	Iran says the edict is irrevocable. It has 
already rejected an EU request for a written 
declaration that it would not carry out the fatwa and 
would seek to restrain Iranians from trying to 
assassinate Rushdie....