Some 250 were wounded and more than 100 arrested when the State Security Forces attacked the 20,000-strong demonstration by the people of Shiraz last night. No information is available on their fate.

At least 31 of those wounded were hospitalized in Namazi, Shiraz and Chamran hospitals in the city.

This morning, the Iranian Resistance sent the names of 62 of the detainees and 11 of those wounded last night to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other international human rights organizations.

Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, called on the United Nations Secretary General and the Human Rights Commission to take immediate steps to save the lives of those arrested. He also urged the Iranian people in other parts of the country to stage protests in solidarity with the people of Shiraz.

The names of 11 of the wounded are: Hossein Mohammadi, Ali Reza'i, Teimour Baqi, Kazem Qajar, Taqi Shahab-Zadeh, Kiomars Hashemi, Shahroukh Fada'i, Mahmoud Zanganeh, Rahim Shadmehr, Taher Shams-Abadi and Khoda-Nazar Jafari.

[According to BBC World Service, " Hundreds of people have been hurt in clashes between football fans and police in Iran. The trouble started during a key championship match in the southern city of Shiraz.]
 

NEW EVIDENCE TIES MULLAHS' REGIME TO MURDER OF 241 MARINES, NEWSWEEK, NOVEMBER 15

As Iran's Islamic leader rallied demonstrators last week against... rapprochement with the United States, new evidence emerged tying Iranian officials to the truck bomb that killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut 16 years ago, as well as to the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.

NEWSWEEK has learned that a National Security Agency phone tap recorded a Sept. 24, 1983, call from the Iranian ambassador in Syria to his foreign minister, in which the ambassador relayed orders he'd given to Abu Haidar, leader of the Husaini Suicide Forces Movement... A CIA source says U.S. military officials had the intercept in hand a month before the bombing, but failed
to prevent it.

Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary of State Martin Indyk told Congress last month that while there is "information about the involvement of some Iranian officials" in the Khobar bombing, none of it would hold up in court. But an official with access to the material
says, "We have hard evidence on the Iranian government's role."

CIA sources say terrorists received money and passports from Iran and that Iranian agents were casing American facilities in 1995. Despite the evidence, lawmakers are concerned that Iran will go unpunished. "My big fear," says Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, "is we won't pursue it because of some rapprochement with Iran."
 

REGIME TO ALLOW CITIZENS TO SUE FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, REUTERS, NOVEMBER 9

TEHRAN - Parliament on Tuesday passed a law allowing Iranians to sue foreign governments for damages in local courts, a move seen aimed primarily at the United States.

The law allows Iran's courts to hear suits on "any act by foreign governments violating international law" if it leads to the death or injury of an Iranian citizen or financial losses.

The measure, which has to be approved by a clergy-based body before it takes effect, is also aimed at foreign governments "violating the Islamic republic's diplomatic immunity."

"God willing, if the ruling is confirmed, Iranian nationals who have suffered losses by the unjustified meddling of the traitor U.S. government can file suits," deputy speaker Hassan Rowhani said in a parliamentary debate carried on state radio.

"We hope to be able to inflict a firm blow to American aggression with this law," Rowhani said. "We respect diplomatic immunity, but if any country decides to violate this pact, we are ready to retaliate."
 
 

PROTEST AGAINST STUDENT IMPRISONMENT, REUTERS, NOVEMBER 9

TEHRAN - More than 1,000 Iranian students held a campus rally in Tehran Tuesday to protest the imprisonment of fellow students for blasphemy.

Speakers denounced a court which last week jailed two students for three years and another for six months for publishing a satirical play.

The three students were arrested in September after the play was published in a campus newsletter at the Amir Kabir University of Technology.
Speakers questioned the court's jurisdiction over the case and denounced its conservative judge for allegedly exerting "psychological pressure" on the students' families.
 

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