BRIEF ON IRAN	 
No. 594	
Friday, February 14, 1997 
 
Representative Office of 
The National Council of Resistance of Iran	 
Washington, DC 



Opposition TV Broadcasting to Iran, Agence 
France Presse, February 13 
 
	The main armed Iranian opposition 
group, the People's Mujahedeen, Thursday 
announced that it was broadcasting by 
satellite to Iran. 
	A spokesman for the Baghdad-based 
movement told AFP that the one-hour-a-day 
broadcasts began February 2.... 
	According to the spokesman, the 
"information program is transmitted every 
night by two satellites, Pan Am Sat and Asia 
Sat, and covers all of Iran, the Gulf area and 
part of Iraq. 
	He said his organization has 
received several messages from inside Iran 
confirming that the show was coming in and 
that the authorities have not succeeded in 
jamming it. 
	The People's Mujahedeen has a 
radio station in Iraq, which broadcasts to 
Iran 16 hours a day, and a television channel 
which broadcasts one hour a day and whose 
programs are received in western Iran, which 
borders on Iraq.... 
 
 
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Vow To Kill 
Salman Rushdie, Agence France Presse, 
February 13 
 
	Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards 
vowed Thursday to carry out a death 
sentence against British author Salman 
Rushdie after a religious foundation raised 
the bounty on his head to 2.5 million dollars. 
	"The world's Moslems consider 
Rushdie to be an apostate and will not tire 
until they have carried out the imam's 
decree," the guards said in a statement issued 
on the eve of the anniversary of the death 
sentence against the writer.... 
	The Revolutionary Guards vowed to 
confront anyone who seeks to "dilute the 
fatwa or working to prevent it from being 
implemented."... 
	The British government on 
Wednesday called on Rafsanjani to condemn 
the reward offered to end Rushdie's life. 
	"We do not accept that the 
Khordad-15 foundation is independent of the 
Iranian government," a Foreign Office 
spokesman said. 
	"We call on President Rafsanjani 
specifically to condemn the bounty and to 
provide the European Union with those 
written assurances which we seek. 
	"We condemn the bounty as we 
condemned the fatwa as an outrageous 
infringement of Mr. Rushdie's fundamental 
rights," the spokesman said.... 
 
 
Bonn Hardens "Critical Dialogue" with 
Tehran, Agence France Presse, February 13 
 
	Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel on 
Wednesday rejected Iranian accusations of 
interference in Tehran's internal affairs and 
said that Bonn's policy of "critical dialogue" 
with Tehran had become a "very, very 
critical dialogue."... 
	Relations between Bonn and Tehran 
are already tense over the trial of five men in 
Berlin, accused by federal prosecutors of 
assassinating four Kurdish Iranian 
opposition figures in an operation they say 
was approved by the Islamic regime at the 
highest level. 
 
 
Norway Condemns Fatwa Against Rushdie, 
Calls for "More Restrictive Policy" Towards 
Iran, Agence France Presse, February 13 
 
	Norway on Thursday reiterated its 
condemnation of the death sentence against 
British writer Salman Rushdie, after an 
Iranian religious foundation on Wednesday 
raised its reward for his death. 
	"Norway strongly condemns the fact 
that the Iranian authorities have refused to 
lift the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and 
others who have been involved in the 
publication of his book 'The Satanic Verses'," 
Foreign Minister Bjoern Tore Godal said in a 
statement.... 
	"The death sentence violates 
fundamental human rights principles and 
norms for international contacts and is an 
unacceptable blow to freedom of expression," 
Godal said.... 
	Godal called on other countries to 
practice a more restrictive policy towards 
Iran.... 
 
 
Peres Warns against Fundamentalism, 
Reuters, February 12 
 
	Former Israeli Prime Minister 
Shimon Peres said on Tuesday the Middle 
East was being threatened by a 
"fundamentalistic movement" led by Iran. 
	Peres, in a speech at Yale 
University, urged Jews, Moslems and 
Christians to unite against such 
fundamentalism. 
	The Middle East was threatened by 
"a fundamentalistic movement that tries to 
shake up and endanger practically every 
existing system in the Arab world. And its 
headquarters are today in a single country_in 
Iran," Peres said. 
	"This movement not only has a 
sworn commitment to a religious way, but it 
also uses terror and threats and arms, and is 
trying to acquire a nuclear capacity."...