BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 557 Thursday, December 12, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Dhahran Bombing Carried Out With Iran Support, The Washington Post, December 11 The Saudi Arabian government has given the Clinton administration detailed data meant to support the Saudis' belief that the June bombing of a U.S. military housing complex in the kingdom was carried out by Saudi Shiite extremists who were trained in Lebanon and acted with the support of the Iranian government. Prince Nayef, the Saudi interior minister in charge of security, handed over the evidence to FBI Director Louis J. Freeh when Freeh visited the Saudi capital Riyadh late last month.... ...Saudis have told the Americans that the data given to Freeh paints a picture of a conspiracy carried out by Saudi Shiite terrorists who received military- grade explosives, bomb components and training in Lebanon from members of Hezbollah, ... a radical Islamic organization that has long been funded, trained and equipped by Iran. Some of the Saudis and Hezbollah members traveled to and from Tehran before and after the explosion, and allegedly had extensive dealings with Iranian intelligence agents, the sources said.... [Those Saudis who favor an aggressive response to the bombing] have raised the possibility of building a coalition of nations to support an international embargo on trade with Iran.... According to a knowledgeable source, the Saudis may be counting on the possibility that public support in Europe for a policy of "constructive engagement" with Iran will be undermined by the recent allegations of prosecutors in Berlin, Paris and Rome that Iranian diplomats or intelligence agents helped arrange the assassination of Iranian dissidents in those countries.... Terrorist Training for S. African Muslim Vigilantes, Sunday Telegraph, December 8 Western governments have been warned to tighten security at embassies and multi-national office complexes in South Africa after reports that Iranian agents are providing terrorist training for Cape Town's notorious Muslim vigilantes. The warning follows mounting evidence that the Iranian intelligence ministry has agreed a mutual cooperation pact with the Cape Town-based vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad).... ...Iranian connection with the maverick group now appears to be established. Western security experts believe that the alliance was negotiated soon after President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran made a state visit to South Africa last September. According to intelligence reports, two senior members of Iran's intelligence ministry accompanied Mr. Rafsanjani to South Africa on forged documents, but failed to return to Teheran at the end of the presidential visit. Instead, they traveled to Cape Town where they met Pagad officials and agreed a mutual cooperation pact. The Iranians have agreed to provide financial support and training to Pagad members. In return Pagad will act as Iran's "eyes and ears" in Africa. Iran's intelligence ministry is interested in building a terrorist network in South Africa both for strategic reasons and because it believes there are many "soft" Western targets that can be attacked.... ...Two Pagad activists are reported to have traveled to Iran on false passports last month for terrorist training at the Imam Rida camp, at Mashhad in eastern Iran. The camp has, in the past, been used to train Islamic extremists from Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan and specializes in bomb-making techniques.... Iran's Arms Transfer To Terrorists Continues, The Associated Press, December 11 Iran has sent a squadron of jet fighters to the Syrian capital and is using the city as a base for arming Shiite Muslim guerrillas, an Israeli newspaper said today.... Haaretz said Iranian planes have flown into Damascus with weapons that were then delivered to Shiite Muslim Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon.... Haaretz said the intelligence report also said Iran is training a group of suicide bombers. It said the assailants were to launch their attacks from small speed boats, but did not name possible targets.... "Tehran's Nuclear Program Global", Voice of America, December 11 ...A recent item in U.S. News and World Report magazine, citing intelligence sources, says Iran is building in Yazd, the country's uranium mining center, a network of suspicious underground shafts. According to the magazine, intelligence sources believe those shafts could be used for future nuclear Tests. But that, says Gary Milhollin, executive director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, is only the tip of the iceberg. Mr. Milhollin says the reach of Tehran's nuclear program is indeed global.... Published reports say one of Iran's secret nuclear facilities is located north of Tehran, in underground chambers dug beneath the village of Moallem Kalayeh. Another nuclear complex is believed to be hidden at Darkhovin, a military base run by the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's elite military service.... U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that, dangerous as they are in themselves, Iran's nuclear pursuits become a real nightmare in light of the country's support for international terrorist networks....