BRIEF ON IRAN	 
	Representative Office of 
	The National Council of Resistance of Iran
	No. 559	
	Monday, December 16, 1996 
 
 
 
 
3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007
 

Kermanshah Unrest, Radio Israel, December 11 
 
	The London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat 
reports that the Iranian government intends to execute 
a number of those arrested during the last week's 
unrest in the Kermanshah province charging them 
with espionage. 
	The regime uses the charge of espionage 
against the people in order to avoid admitting 
existence of internal dissidence while it attributes acts 
of protest by the people to foreign provocateurs, to 
daily reported.... 
	Eighteen of those arrested during the unrest 
are transferred to Tehran and some of those charged 
with espionage are Sunni clerics and seminary 
students, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported. 
	[Last week, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President 
of the NCR, called on the UN and all international 
humanitarian bodies to take immediate action to 
prevent the massacre of those arrested in 
Kermanshah.] 
 
 
Suppression of People in Tehran, Radio Israel, Dec. 
11 
 
	Bloody unrest took place in the Nozie-Abad 
district of Tehran recently, the London-based Arabic 
language Al-Mashhad Al-Siyasi reported. 
	The unrest started when the Islamic 
government's agents and officials tried to confiscate 
satellite antennas in the district. 
	According to the report, in the confrontation 
between the people and the government officials 
dozens of people were injured and an unknown 
number of them were arrested. 
 
 
NCR Warns Against Iran's Warmongering 
Ambitions, Iran Zamin News Agency, December 15 
 
	In a statement issued on Sunday, the 
National Council of Resistance of Iran reported that 
the Revolutionary Guards announced that it is 
preparing to launch its largest military maneuvers 
code-named Tariq-ol Qods or the Road to Jerusalem. 
	According to the NCR, the maneuvers 
follows dozens of other military maneuvers in Tehran 
and other parts of the country. "In addition to 
terrorizing the public and preparing to confront 
nationwide resistance and popular uprisings, Tariq-ol 
Qods reveals the expansionist and aggressive 
ambitions of the mullahs' regime in the Middle East 
and Persian Gulf," the statement said. "The name, 
itself, is very telling about the regime's hostility 
toward Middle East peace and tranquillity." 
	According to the NCR statement, these 
maneuvers —which cost hundreds of millions of 
dollars— coincide with enormous purchases of arms 
and a stepped up export of terrorism and unrest to the 
region and reveal the regime's ominous intentions. 
	The National Council of Resistance warned 
against the terrorist and warmongering objectives of 
the Iranian government and reiterated that the only 
way to confront the mullahs was to "adopt a decisive 
policy and impose trade sanctions on them". 
 
 
Overview 
 
Fate of Iranian Missing Writer 
 
Tehran Accused of Abduction, The Associated Press, 
December 13  
 
	The wife of a prominent Iranian writer who 
vanished last month accused the Iranian government 
on Friday of kidnapping her husband, who has been 
critical of Iran's leaders. 
	Faraj Sarkuhi disappeared on Nov. 3, the day 
he was to fly from Tehran to Hamburg to join his wife 
and two children, who were sent to Germany by 
Sarkuhi last year because he feared for their safety. 
	"Everything points to him having been 
imprisoned by the Iranian secret service," Sarkuhi's 
wife, Farideh Zebarjad, told reporters.... 
	Sarkuhi, a magazine editor and critic of the 
Iranian government, was among six Iranian writers 
arrested during a raid in July at the Tehran apartment 
of the German cultural attaché, who had invited them 
for dinner. 
	"They (the six) were interrogated, threatened 
and insulted" and released the following day, 
Sarkuhi's wife said.... 
	In a letter to Zebarjad in September, Sarkuhi 
said he suspected he would be used by the Tehran 
government to influence a trial in Berlin, where an 
Iranian and four Lebanese men are charged with the 
1992 assassination of four Iranian opposition leaders 
in Berlin's Mykonos restaurant. It is alleged that the 
murders were on orders from Tehran.... 
 
 
Missing Iranian Journalist Still in Iran, Says Bonn, 
Reuters, December 13  
 
	Bonn believes an Iranian journalist missing 
since he failed to arrive on Germany on a flight from 
Tehran is still in Iran, a foreign ministry 
spokeswoman said on Friday in contradiction of an 
Iranian newspaper report.... 
	"Our ambassador made his most recent call 
on the Iranian government on December 11. The 
Foreign Ministry considers that Sarkuhi is probably 
still in Iran and expects more information from the 
Iranian foreign ministry," the spokeswoman said....