BRIEF ON IRAN	
No. 558
Friday, December 13, 1996

Representative Office of
The National Council of Resistance of Iran
Washington, DC


The UN General Assembly Condemns Continuing Violations of Human Rights in
Iran for the 39th Times, Iran Zamin News Agency, December 12

	On Thursday, the UN's 52nd session of the General Assembly in New York,
voted 79 to 30 to denounce violations of human rights by the clerics in Iran.
	United Nations for the 39th times condemned the "continuing violations of
human rights" in Iran, including "the high number of executions, torture,
"restrictions on the freedom of expression, thought, opinion and the press,"
"widespread discrimination against women," "significant toughening of
criminal legislation," and the "harassment and persecution" of "writers and
members of the press" in Iran.
	Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of
Iran, in a statement, welcomed the resolution and said: "The decisive vote
of the highest international human rights body, for the twelfth consecutive
year, against the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran makes it all
the more imperative that the mullahs' murderous regime be expelled from the
international community... and that Iran's seat at this body be transferred
to the National Council of Resistance of Iran which represents the
overwhelming majority of the Iranian people."


Massoud Rajavi Calls for Action to Save One Thousand Arrested in Kermanshah,
Iran Zamin News Agency, December 12

	The ruling regime in Iran is planning to massacre those arrested in the
Kermanshah Province, reports from Iran say.
	Hundreds of people were arrested in the demonstrations which rocked this
province last week. Dozens were killed and hundreds wounded in the clashes.
	Mr. Massoud Rajavi in a statement called "on the Human Rights Commission
and the UN Security Council and all international humanitarian bodies to
take immediate action and bring pressure on the illegitimate regime ruling
Iran to prevent the massacre of those arrested in Kermanshah."


Six Kurdish dissidents assassinated in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran Zamin News
Agency, December 12

	Terrorists dispatched by the mullahs' regime have reportedly murdered six
members of a dissident Iranian Kurdish group in Sourdash (Solaymania, Iraqi
Kurdistan).
	In a statement NCR condemned this atrocity and warned against the countless
interferences in the Iraqi Kurdistan by Iran's medieval regime saying: "The
International community's silence and inaction toward the mullahs'
aggressions have so emboldened this regime that it does not refrain from
committing any crime in the Kurdistan of Iraq, enjoying a shameless free
reign in the area which is still protected by the Coalition forces."


Iran's Economic Overtures to Influence Berlin Court, German Radio, December 6

	Iran formally announced its interest in buying troubled east German heavy
machinery maker Sket Magdeburg GmbH...
	One reason could be the Mykonos trial [Berlin trial of five men for the
1992 killing of three Kurdish dissidents and their translator in Berlin.
Prosecutors have charged Teheran leaders with ordering the killings].
	Iranian ambassador to Bonn, Mousavian, has repeatedly emphasized that good
relations between Iran and Germany would be profitable.  So the Iranian
government surly wants to show that it is prepared to initiate positive
measures including the purchase of these factories.
	It seems doubtful that Iran will remain committed to this offer, should it
receive the negative judgment by Mykonos court.

[On November 26, the Iranian Resistance in a statement warned that according
to the reports from within the Khomeini regime, the clerics were planning to
work openly and secretly, against the German Judiciary officials, to
persuade the government of that country to interfere in the work of the
Judiciary and prevent further investigations into the role of Khamenei and
Rafsanjani in the terrorist crime which took place in Berlin in September 1992.


Iran Expels Foreign Workers to Reduce Unemployment, BBC Radio, December 5

	The Ministry of Labor announced that Iranian companies and institutions
have only one month to expel approximately 1,000,000 foreign workers and
hire Iranians instead...
	It seems that the main reason for this sudden decision and the one month
deadline is the gigantic unemployment problem in Iran.
	Currently, the unemployment rate according to official statistics is about
11%.  But the economists believe that the real number is much higher.
	Iranian authorities presume that through this kind of measures they could
find a solution to Iran's unemployment dilemma.