BRIEF ON IRAN	 
No. 590	
Monday, February 10, 1997
 
Representative Office of 
The National Council of Resistance of Iran	
Washington, DC
 
 
 
Iran Warns Gulf States, Reuters, February 9  
 
	Iran on Sunday warned Gulf Arab 
states with close ties with foreign powers that 
they would be the first to "burn" if the region 
became instable. 
	Spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali 
Khamenei, who nine days ago warned 
Washington against attacking Iran, issued 
the warning to the Gulf states in a sermon 
marking the Moslem Eid al-Fitr feast. 
	"If this region should become 
insecure the very same countries that have 
prepared the conditions for that insecurity 
will bear the brunt of their action, for having 
offered their soil to them (foreign troops)," 
the official Iranian news agency IRNA 
quoted Khamenei as saying.... 
 
 
US Denies Iran "Disinformation" about 
Secret Talks, Reuters, Feb. 7 
 
	The United States has sent a note to 
a number of governments denying Iranian 
"disinformation" that Tehran and 
Washington are holding secret talks, 
according to a source at the United Nations. 
	A State Department official in 
Washington confirmed this to Reuters, 
saying, "We are seeing some muddling of the 
state of U.S. relations out there and we are 
trying to set the story straight by saying what 
the real state of relations is."... 
	The U.S. note said Washington had 
learned that Iranian officials had made "false 
statements" to a number of governments 
about relations between the two countries. 
While the statements varied, a common 
theme was the claim of a secret dialogue.... 
	The U.S. note said that, in addition 
to the "pattern of Iranian disinformation," 
there had been considerable unfounded press 
speculation in the United States and abroad 
about prospects for a review of U.S. policy 
toward Iran under the new Washington 
administration. 
	But it said Iran's "threatening 
behavior" had not changed and alleged that it 
continued to engage in and support 
terrorism, sought to derail the Middle East 
peace process, tried to destabilize regional 
governments and to "pursue weapons of mass 
destruction." 
	As long as Iran presented such 
serious threats to U.S. interests, the U.S. 
commitment to counter those threats would 
not change, it added.... 
 
 
Iran Pessimistic about Future Relations with 
US, Agence France Presse, February 9 
 
	The powerful speaker of the Iranian 
parliament, Ali Akbar Nategh Nuri, said he 
was pessimistic about the chances of a 
rapprochement with the United States.... 
	But Nategh Nuri said he saw "no 
obstacle" to improved ties with Europe.... 
	The European Union has frozen ties 
with Tehran within a "critical dialogue" 
since 1992, urging Iran to lift the fatwa 
[against Salman Rushdie], a request Tehran 
has failed to carry out.... 
	Referring to a crisis with Germany, 
Iran's top trade partner, he said Tehran 
would not remain silent if German 
prosecutors continued to blame Tehran for 
the 1992 murder of four Iranian Kurdish 
opposition figures in a Berlin restaurant.... 
 
 
Mullahs in Delirium, Iran Zamin News 
Agency, February 9 
 
	The People's Mojahedin of Iran 
issued a statement Sunday and described "as 
sheer lies yesterday's remarks by the Ilam 
province's Director General for intelligence 
that '17 members of the Mojahedin had been 
killed at the border strip in the province.'" 
	The PMI Spokesman said: "By 
disseminating such lies, the regime aims to 
boost the morale of its demoralized forces.... 
He denied that units of the Mojahedin had 
entered their homeland from Iraq. He 
stressed that by fabricating these reports, the 
mullahs were also trying to set the stage for 
further terrorist and military assaults against 
the Resistance's activists and bases in Iraqi 
territory." 
 
 
Overview 
An Army Against Mullahs
German Television's Channel 2 (ZDF)
January 22 
 
	Narrator: Fatemeh is the daughter of 
a government employee from Tehran. Behjat 
grew up in Munich. These are the children of 
people who are persecuted in Iran, and are 
now practicing for an uprising against the 
mullahs' regime. A partisan group of young 
women aging between 18 and 25 are 
attacking a police station. This is still a drill 
but soon it will be realized in bloody 
seriousness.... 
	In five bases in Iraq, 50,000 
combatants are training for a war against the 
fascist religious dictatorship in Tehran....The 
Mojahedin's partisan groups have become a 
well-equipped army.... 
	Eye catching is that 80 percent of 
the combatants of this army have finished 
their graduate studies in exile, particularly in 
France and Germany.... More outstanding is 
the fact that many women have given up 
their chadors for combat uniforms. Almost 
half of the commanders of these tanks are 
women.... 
	Their goal is to establish a secular 
republic in Iran, according to western 
models. Their weapons are modern. Their 
tanks are...bought in the free market of arms 
or taken away from the arsenal of the 
mullahs' army.... 
	Stop critical dialogue with the 
Tehran regime which has covered the world 
with terrorism. We hear this from the 
politicians of the opposition.  
	Mohammad Mohaddessin, Foreign 
Minister in exile: The way Mr. Kinkel leads 
this critical dialogue is against the interests 
of the Iranian people, because it helps the 
mullahs continue their rule. Every dollar 
from Germany, is an assistance to the 
mullahs to carry out further executions, 
arrests and imprisonment. This critical 
dialogue has failed in every sense....