BRIEF ON IRAN	 
No. 602	
Thursday, February 27, 1997 
 
Representative Office of 
The National Council of Resistance of Iran	
Washington, DC
 
 

Guard's Commanders Planning Attacks Against 
Resistance Bases, Iran Zamin News Agency , 
February 26 
 
	The Guards Corps Brigadier 
Mohammad Karami, commander of Ramazan 
garrison [the GC's main base in western Iran] 
left Tehran and arrived in the Iraqi Kurdish city 
of Darbandikhan, which is under control of the 
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK], to 
implement terrorist schemes against the Iranian 
Resistance, a report by the People's Mojahedin 
indicates. 
	According to the report, Ebadi, a 
commander of Ramazan garrison stationed in 
Kermanshah, and five other commanders 
arrived in Darbandikhan two days ago. The 
GC's officers intend to organize attacks against 
the National Liberation Army of Iran from 
nearby. 
	Simultaneously, the Zafar garrison in 
Kermanshah, has been actively using its bases in 
the PUK-controlled areas of Iraqi Kurdistan to 
collect information on the NLA's activities. 
	Following the widespread attacks by 
Mojahedin and the Resistance forces on the 
regime's suppressive forces all over Iran, the 
mullahs have intensified their terrorist plots 
against the Iranian Resistance. 
 
 
Iran Hangs Five for Drug Smuggling, Killings, 
Reuters, February 25  
 
	Iran has publicly hanged one Afghan 
and four Iranians..., a newspaper said on 
Tuesday. 
	The daily Kayhan said a large crowd 
attended the hanging of the five men in the 
northeastern town of Fariman, about 120 km (75 
miles) from Iran's borders with Afghanistan and 
Pakistan. It did not say when the executions 
were carried out.... 
	[Previous reports indicate that Iran 
executes dissidents under the charge of drug 
traffiking. The public hanging of individuals is 
used by the regime as a measure of intimidation 
and suppression of dissent.]  
 
 
With Iran's Aid, Guerrillas Make Important 
Gains, The New York Times, February 26 
 
	Apparently with help from the Iranian 
government, the main guerrilla group waging a 
campaign against Israeli forces in southern 
Lebanon has made important gains in recent 
months in intelligence, weapons and tactics, 
Western diplomats and other experts here say.... 
	...some Beirut-based diplomats and 
other experts say that much of the responsibility 
belongs to Iran, whose Revolutionary Guards 
continue to train Hezbollah forces in the Bekaa 
region in Lebanon. The diplomats say Iran 
funneled tens of millions of dollars in aid 
through Hezbollah last year to Lebanese 
civilians who had been displaced by an Israeli 
military offensive. 
	With these and other overtures, the 
diplomats say, Iran appears increasingly 
determined to bolster Hezbollah and other forces 
in southern Lebanon... 
	"They're getting decent materiel, and 
they're obviously well trained and well 
motivated," a Western diplomat said of 
Hezbollah..."I would say that Iran has made 
good use of the last year, and its position is 
getting stronger."... 
	All of the weapons that Iran provides to 
Hezbollah now pass through Damascus, a 
routing on which Syria and Lebanon have 
insisted so that Syria can control what flows into 
southern Lebanon, and when. 
	But Iran has tried several times in the 
last year to establish alternative supply routes 
that would circumvent those restrictions, 
Western intelligence officials say, while 
diplomats assigned to the Iranian Embassy in 
Beirut have become newly aggressive in trying 
to forge contacts with militant Palestinian 
groups apparently in an effort to enlist them as 
auxiliaries to Hezbollah. 

 
Announcement: 
Iranian Resistance on the Internet 
 
	IranNCR, a FirstClass communications 
system on the Internet, provides information on 
the Iranian situation and the Iranian opposition 
movement  This service has been structured for 
Iranians, particularly those in Iran, but there is a 
substantial amount of information available for 
English-speaking users. 
	To learn how to connect to IranNCR, 
visit the home page at the following address:  
http://www.mehr.aiac.fr. 
	In addition, Iran-e-Azad Organization, 
supporters of the NCR, has a World Wide Web 
site with a complete separate English and Farsi 
sections.  To reach Iran-e-Azad site, point your 
browser to: http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english.