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Today the NCR's Committee on Counter-terrorism issued its fourth statement on role of the mullahs' regime in the Kenya and Tanzania bombings. The statement says:
The Committee on Counter-terrorism of the National Council of Resistance of Iran underscores the contents of its previous statements on the involvement of the clerical regime in the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. It reiterates that any attempt to ignore the role of this regime in those explosions is to embolden the biggest sponsor and godfather of terrorism in the world today.
The U.S. government has declared on many occasions that the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran is the biggest sponsor of international terrorism. The latest U.S. State Department's annual report on terrorism in April 1998 emphasized that "the Iranian government is the most active state sponsor of terrorism" in the world.
Sandy Berger, the National Security Adviser to the U.S. President, said: "We have not ruled out that others share responsibility, however, and we are looking into every possibility."
It is high time, therefore, to unveil the role and responsibility of the mullahs' regime in the bomb attacks in Dhahran, Buenos Aires, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi.
The theocratic dictatorship and all the factions that constitute it depend on the export of fundamentalism and terrorism to remain in power. Treating the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran as "separate factions" and failure to deal with this regime as a whole, only hearten the mullahs to perpetrate suppression at home and continue to export terrorism abroad. This policy has been continuing since the Irangate scandal and the search for illusory "moderates" within the mullahs' regime and resulted in the cover-up of many crimes committed by the mullahs.
Iranian Speaker Lashes West at Jail Head's Funeral,
Reuter, August 25
TEHRAN - A leading Iranian conservative attending the state funeral of an assassinated former prison chief on Tuesday accused Western countries of supporting the armed opposition group which said it killed him.
Lajevardi, 63, who headed Tehran's Evin prison after the 1979 Islamic revolution and was also a prosecutor, was often accused by opposition groups of being responsible for torture and mistreatment of political prisoners.
Speaking at the ceremony in front of the parliament building, parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri blasted Western countries for not curbing the activities of the Mujahideen.
The Mujahideen Khalq said the killing of Lajevardi, who it called "the Butcher of Evin," marked the 10th anniversary of a mass execution of political prisoners.
Iran has repeatedly asked Western governments to curb the Mujahideen's extensive activities in Western countries.
Khatami Pledges Support For Lebanon Against Israeli
"Plague", Agence France Presse, August 25
TEHRAN - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami pledged support for Lebanon against what he described as the Israeli "plague" in talks here on Tuesday with Lebanese Sunni Moslem Mufti Rashid Qabbani.
"Lebanon is in the front line in the fight against Israel, and the Zionist regime is for the lives of people in South Lebanon like a plague," Khatami said, quoted by the official Iranian news agency IRNA.
"Supporting Lebanon against this threat is a religious and human responsibility as this regime is anti-human," he said.
Turkish Minister's Wife Jostled For Refusing Islamic
Custom, Agence France Presse, August 24
ANKARA - The wife of a Turkish minister was "manhandled" by border guards after she refused to cover her head for a visit to Iran, the Turkish press reported Monday.
Hikmet Sami Turk, a junior minister for external relations, was visiting the eastern border region of Turkey, accompanied by his wife, when he was invited to cross the frontier into Bazargan in Iran by local officials.
Iranian border guards ordered his wife, Fatos Turk, to cover her hair with a headscarf, the Islamic custom for women in Iran.
She refused, the dailies Milliyet and Radikal reported, and was jostled by border guards who tried to prevent her accompanying her husband across the border.