Rajavi Urges Denver Summit Leaders To Adopt Firm Policy Towards Mullahs, Iran Zamin News Agency, June 18  

In separate letters to the leaders of the world's eight leading industrialized nations on the eve of their summit in Denver, Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, reiterated the need for a firm Iran policy by the international community.

The NCR President said: "The leading industrialized nations must sever their diplomatic and trade ties with the medieval tyranny ruling Iran, refer the regime's human rights abuses and export of terrorism to the UN Security Council for the adoption of binding decisions, and recognize the right of the Iranian people to resist the mullahs' regime and to establish democracy in Iran."

Friday, June 20, simultaneous with the Summit of the Eight, tens of thousands of Iranians in the United States, Germany and Sweden will hold rallies and gatherings to declare their support for his call. In the U.S., they will rally in Denver, the site of the Summit.

In a press release to Iran Zamin, Mr. Rajavi was quoted as stating: "Last week a Swiss investigative magistrate reaffirmed the direct involvement of the most senior officials of the Iranian regime in the April 1990 assassination in Geneva of Prof. Kazem Rajavi.

"A Berlin court ruled last April that the Tehran regime's supreme leader and President were directly responsible for the assassination of dissidents abroad. Thus a decisive policy against the mullahs' regime and the trial of its leaders in an international tribunal for their crimes against humanity is an indispensable necessity.

"Continuing appeasement can only be interpreted by the mullahs as a sign of weakness and as encouragement for more terrorism," the NCR President said.

Mr. Rajavi recalled: "Iran's trade volume with the industrialized countries forms more than 80 percent of the regime's external trade. The petrodollars from the West that fill the mullahs' coffers are used to suppress the Iranian people, foment tension and instability in the area, and stockpile conventional and non-conventional weaponry. The official budget of the mullahs' Atomic Energy Organization in 1995 increased 20-fold since 1991."

The NCR President said: "Those who benefit from such economic ties have so far tried to give it a semblance of respectability by raising false hopes about a fictitious moderate faction within the regime.

"But from Iran-gate fiasco to the European Union's abortive eight-year negotiations with the mullahs on the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and the failed investment in Rafsanjani, the futility of such illusions has repeatedly manifested itself in the past 16 years."

Executions Double In Iran—Amnesty, Reuter, June 18  

LONDON - Amnesty International on Wednesday said… There was a significant rise in the number of executions in many countries in the region and the use of torture was widely recorded in almost every country in the Middle East.

In Iran, at least 110 people were executed, more than twice the level in 1995.. Amnesty said.

Cohen Says Chinese Arms Sales To Iran Can Backfire, Reuters, June 18 

SHANNON, Ireland—U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen on Wednesday warned China that its sale of anti-ship cruise missiles to Iran could one day backfire in a new Gulf conflict, halting the flow of oil to Beijing and the world….

The United States has repeatedly pressed China and Russia not to sell weapons to Iran, which Washington accuses of supporting terrorism and developing ambitions to control the narrow mouth of the Gulf.

Iran has spent billions of dollars on weapons in recent years, including three Russian diesel-powered submarines and Russian warplanes in addition to Chinese missiles and patrol boats….

But Cohen said the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) were generally unanimous in their support of the U.S. effort to contain Iraq and Iran in the region….

Saudi Bombing Suspect Arrives in Washington, The Washington Post, June 18 

A Saudi man detained in Canada in connection with last summer's deadly bombing of a U.S. military complex in Saudi Arabia arrived in Washington last night as part of a deal in which he pledged to cooperate in an investigation that could implicate Iran, law enforcement officials said…

They said Sayegh knows a lot about Iran's recruitment of Saudi and other Shiite Muslim students who have gone to study in the Iranian holy city of Qom….

Iranian authorities reportedly sent him for military training at a school in Tehran and also enrolled him in the Arabian Peninsula Organization opposing the Saudi government….

Sayegh…received extensive support from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, including a false Saudi passport….

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