Several thousand students gathered outside Tehran University this afternoon and began to demonstrate with chants of "down with Supreme Leader (Ali Khamenei), down with Khamenei and Rafsanjani," "free all political prisoners," and "unity, struggle, victory." The mullah’s suppressive forces were preventing students from entering the campus.

The Revolutionary Guards and anti-riot police aided by members of the terrorist gang known as Ansar Hezbollah, savagely attacked the crowd.

Today’s demonstration had been banned in advance by the Intelligence Ministry. A pro-Khatami student group had tried hard to prevent today’s protest demonstration, but its efforts were shunned by angry and frustrated students longing to see an end to the entire mullahs’ regime.
 

Attack on Pro-Democracy Campus Rally, Reuters, May 24

TEHRAN - Iranian militiamen severely beat up pro-democracy students in an attack on a rally at Tehran University on Wednesday, witnesses said.

The militia, dressed in black, detained a dozen students and handed them over to plainclothes agents. Security forces, heavily present outside the campus, largely refrained from intervening.

Security forces then blocked the main campus gate to prevent the crowd from leaving the campus and to avoid further clashes.

But many of the students broke through the locked gate, joining with off-campus sympathizers in slogans against the Islamic hard-liners.

[Agence France Presse: Security forces clashed with students as they intervened here Wednesday to break up a rally to demand the release of detained political prisoners, an AFP reporter saw.]
 

Shops Owned By Jews Attacked In Iran, Associated Press, May 24

SHIRAZ - The ongoing espionage trial of 13 Jews in Iran has led to angry attacks on Jewish businesses, including one arson, a Jewish leader said Wednesday.

"This trial has created problems for the whole Jewish community in Iran," Haroun Yashayaii, head of Iran's Jewish society, said outside the courthouse as proceedings resumed in the southern city of Shiraz.
 

Turkish Prosecutors Say Iran Backed Deadly Group, Agence France Presse, May 24

DIYARBAKIR - Turkish prosecutors accused Iran on Wednesday of providing support to a hard-line Islamic group blamed for the murders of hundreds of people in the country, Anatolia news agency said.

The accusation came in a 180-page indictment in which prosecutors in this southeastern city demanded the death sentence for 13 members of the Hizbullah movement on charges of trying to destroy Turkey's constitutional order and involvement in the murders of 156 people.

"It is not possible to say that Iran provided Hizbullah only with military and political training," the prosecution said, implying that the group also received financial backing from Tehran.

"Iran's policy of exporting the (Islamic) revolution was put into practice with its support for pro-Hizbullah movements in Turkey and other Mideast countries," the indictment said.
 

Mullahs’ Deputy Minister for Counter-Intelligence Is In Turkey, Iran Zamin News Agency, May 24

Ahmad Beladi-Behbahani, head of the Presidential Intelligence Unit during Rafsanjani’s administration and the Deputy Minister of Intelligence for counter-intelligence, is in Turkey.

Ahmad Beladi-Behbahani, as the head of the Presidential Intelligence Unit under Rafsanjani, oversaw all the assassinations conducted by mullahs’ agents outside Iran and the Iranian regime’s terrorist operations in Iraq.

Beladi-Behbahani acted as the then President Rafsanjani’s liaison with the Intelligence Ministry and also had detailed information about the Lockerbie bombing.

As one of the deputies of former Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian, Ahmad Beladi-Behbahani was involved in the assassination of several NCR officials, including Dr. Kazem Rajavi in Geneva, Mohammad Hossein Naghdi in Rome and Zahra Rajabi in Istanbul.

He was also aware of the details in the assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar, Abdurrahman Qassemlou, and a series of assassinations and bombings conducted by mullahs’ terrorists in Iraq.

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