STOCKHOLM—An opponent of the Tehran regime threw eggs at Iranian Culture Minister Ataollah Mohadjerani during his speech to the plenary session of a UNESCO Conference on Cultural Policies for Development in Stockholm Wednesday.

The opponent, whose name was not disclosed, threw two eggs at the minister as he stood at the podium. Mohadjerani, who was hit in the head, wiped off his face and continued his speech, making no reference to the incident.

The opponent was immediately overpowered by police. As he was dragged out of the room, he shouted: "They killed my brother! They killed my family!"

On Tuesday, some 30 opponents of the Tehran regime demonstrated outside the Stockholm conference center. They returned on Wednesday, but were rapidly dispersed by police.

The demonstrators carried banners protesting the Iranian "terrorist regime" and demanded "an end to trade relations with the criminal regime."

Last Friday, an Iranian cultural evening at UNESCO in Paris also attended by Mohadjerani, who is a government spokesman, was disrupted by opponents of the Tehran regime.

 
Mullahs the Culprit in Saudi Bombings, The New York Post, Editorial, April 1

…The State Department announced that, contrary to what the [Saudi] kingdom's own interior minister said on Monday, Riyadh's investigation into the June 1996 barracks bombing that took the lives of 19 U.S. servicemen has not been shut down.

"From the perspective of the United States," said spokesman Jamie Rubin, "the Al-Khobar bombing investigation remains wide open."

That can only be because the State Department blew a gasket when it heard otherwise, and had a justified screaming fit that led Riyadh to change its tune.

Now we'll see if anything else changes.

So far, of course, the Saudis have made no arrests in the case. Indeed, they have publicly identified no suspects. As early as January 1997, it had become crystal clear that the Saudis weren't so much interested in finding the bombers as they were in keeping American crime-solvers out of it. FBI agents were denied access to key evidence, which infuriated both Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh.

This was par for the course: In 1995, the Saudis actually executed four terrorists involved in a truck bombing that killed five Americans rather than permit U.S. officials to interview the suspects.

It's agreed that Iran is the ultimate culprit in both bombings - and no secret that Riyadh is frightened of Iranian reprisals for cooperating too closely with Washington. Moreover, it is suspected that a thorough investigation would implicate some Saudis Riyadh wouldn't want to see punished.

So far, the only person to be punished for the bombing is Brig. Gen. Terry Schwalier, the base commander at the time….

Now that the Saudis are back on the case, maybe somebody who actually killed Americans will be held to account.

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