DOMESTIC

Execution of political prisoners

Letter from Iran, September - A member of the Zarqampour family, famous for its sympathy to the Resistance, was publicly hanged two months ago in the Shahzadeh Qassem square in Shiraz.

New repressive force created Israeli radio, Sept. 25 - To counter increasing public discontent, the Iranian regime is setting up a new para-military force, the Hezbollah battalion. This force is to be 1,300,000 men in strength.

Making universities "Islamic!!"

Tehran radio, Sept. 25 - In the first national congress of student Islamic associations, Nateq Nouri [speaker of the mullahs' parliament] said: Islamization of the universities is a serious issue of principal importance. It plays a significant role in safeguarding Iran's independence as the mother of all Islamic lands... In an Islamic university, the instructors must believe in Islam, and the Islamic regime and values. The educational texts must comply with Islamic principles. The student must study and research on the basis of the existence of God. Management must be scientific while adhering to hezbollah (party of God). The university's atmosphere must be completely Islamic."

To protect the "Islamic" Constitution!

BBC radio (Persian broadcast), Sept. 25- Secretary of the Allied Islamic Society said his group had concluded that the executive branch must be headed by a clergy so that the Islamic culture and principles may gradually be stabilized. Va'ez Tabassi, the custodian of the Holy Razavi Shrine, remarked that if the Constitution is to be safe from distortion, the clergy must run the three branches up to 50 years!

Presidential elections: No more debates!

Tehran radio, Sept. 20 - Khamenei said this morning Rafsanjani is a very distinguished figure and an asset for the future of the country and added that after his term of presidency, he will still assume other positions of importance.

Just a small problem!

BBC Radio, Sept. 22 - Speaking on the presidential elections, Hassan Rohani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council said if there were parties in the country, then the positions of each party would have been clear and it would have been clear what each party thinks of economic, political and social issues. But the situation is shaky now! One can be among the extremists today, but go with the moderates the other day. Or one is an extremist and tomorrow, goes with the capitalists.

War anniversary & demoralized forces

IRTV, Sept. 21 - Ayatollah Amini, the Friday prayer leader in the city of Qom: "We celebrate the week of 'Holy Defense' to thank our forces and encourage them to stay on for future. The reality is that among the forces there are individuals who have problems... If [the government] wishes to keep these people for future, it must address their problems... A veteran Guard who does not have any residence faces difficulty. The same goes for the Bassij forces..."

Massacre of political prisoners

Radio France International, Sept. 21 - The massacre of political prisoners in summer 1988 was one of the greatest massacres in Iran's contemporary history. If not without precedent, one must say it was unique in the world, as well, after the W.W.II and the atrocities of the fascists...

One must say that many aspects of this massacre still remain undisclosed. The number and mechanism of the executions is not known. The families of the victims do not know even the burial sites of their children. These are the questions which must be answered by the incumbent officials of the regime, particularly Messrs. Khamenei and Rafsanjani who masterminded these killings...

The executions began on Saturday, July 29. They took place in the Hosseinieh of Evin and the auditorium of Gohardasht prison. The prisoners were hanged one by one from the ceiling. Foreign and Iranian human rights organizations put the number of executions between 5 and 15 thousands. Only 45 people remained from a total of 800 to 900 leftist prisoners in cellblocks 1 and 3 at Evin. Between 10 to 20 people remained from some 300 prisoners in cellblock 3 of Gohardasht...

FOREIGN

Killing of Palestinians condemned

NCR secretariat, Sept. 27 - The NCR condemns the Israeli forces' shooting of Palestinian protesters and the beating of the Palestinian Minister of Finance.

Assassination of NCR representative probed

Rome, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A group of Italian lawmakers (Tuesday) is calling on the government to lift the diplomatic immunity of an Iranian Embassy official suspected of masterminding the 1993 killing of a prominent Iranian dissident. A preliminary hearing into the slaying is scheduled to begin Wednesday.

Rome, Sept. 25 (Reuter) - An Italian judge on Wednesday rejected a prosecution request to try an Iranian and two Algerians for the murder of an Iranian opposition leader in Rome. Examining judge Alberto Macchia ruled there was insufficient evidence to indict the three men, whom prosecuting magistrates had wanted tried for the shooting on March 16, 1993, of Mohammed Hossein Naqdi.

Prosecuting magistrates had asked for murder charges to be lodged against Alireza Yazdinejad, an Iranian, and Algerians Adda Khatem and Salah Idgelibt.

Investigations into a fourth man, a diplomat at Iran's Rome embassy at the time of Naqdi's killing, were dropped in July on the grounds of diplomatic immunity.

The Iranian embassy has repeatedly denied any involvement in Naqdi's killing and says it is ready to cooperate with the Italian authorities.

Iranian opposition activists, backed by several Italian members of parliament, have called on Iran to waive the immunity of the diplomat, whom Italian media say is now attached to Tehran's embassy to the Vatican.

The Italian news agency ANSA said investigations into Naqdi's killing would continue despite Wednesday's ruling.

Regime's agents imprisoned in France

AFP, Sept. 26 - Mojtaba Mashhadi, a 39 year old Iranian who became a citizen of France in 1993, was condemned to seven years imprisonment on the charge of "pursuit, surveillance, and gathering information" about Iranian dissidents for their murder.

Hossein Yazdan Seta, another Iranian who was his accomplice and studied in France, was condemned to three years imprisonment by the Paris Prosecutor's office as the "person with lesser responsibility" and "a pawn" of Mashhadi... Mashhadi has confessed that he had contacts with the Iranian secret services.

Clerics warn Germany over Mykonos trial

Reuter, Sept. 23 - Iranian Foreign Minister warned on Monday there would be negative repercussions for Germany if a Berlin court condemned the Iranian government for the murder of Kurdish dissidents.

In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, Ali Akbar Velayati said both Germany and Iran "could run into an endless dispute...if both countries do not (act) intelligently," and suggested Iranian courts could start holding Germany liable for supplying Iraq with materials used for chemical weapons.

The Paris-based National Council of Iran said in a statement released on Monday that it "strongly condemns any interference and meddling in the due process of law in the Mykonos trial." It also urged Germany to abandon its policy of "critical dialogue" with Iran and reject Iran's "shameless demands and disgusting threats."

Tajikestan expels terrorist diplomat

NCR Secretariat, Sept. 24 - NCR welcomed a decision by Tajikestan to expel a Khomeini regime's terrorist diplomat for "his hostile activities against that country."

No compromise on Rushdie

Jomhouri Islami daily, Sept. 22 - Any pledge by Iran about the case of Rushdie is in contradiction to the basic policies of the Islamic Republic and no official would make such a mistake. Every Muslim is duty-bound to carry out the decree for Rushdie's murder. Rushdie must not have peace, he must be pursued until his death.

No moderates in Iran

Associated Press, Sept. 25 - Germany is unwittingly helping Iran develop nuclear bombs even though German officials insist they seek only to aid the country's civilian nuclear power program, a top U.S. official said Wednesday.

Assistant Secretary of State Thomas McNamara rejected German attempts to dismiss U.S. concerns about its nuclear cooperation with Iran. McNamara told reporters that German officials have a habit of confusing moderates with pragmatists in Iran.

"We think there may be some pragmatists in Iran but they are not necessarily moderates," McNamara said. "You can be a pragmatist and still be an ideologue," he added, citing the case of former Russian leader Vladimir Lenin, an ideologue who on occasion deviated from his doctrine when it suited him.

"Searching for moderates (in Iran) is a pretty fruitless enterprise," McNamara said. He said the United States learned that lesson in a painful way a decade ago when Reagan administration emissaries engaged in an abortive attempt to court supposed moderates in Tehran. He said the Iranians are using their civilian nuclear program as a cover for developing nuclear weapons. An oil-rich country like Iran, he added, has no need for a civilian nuclear program.

Mullahs' attack on Kurds

Voice of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI radio), Sept. 20 - On the Iranian regime's July 20 attack on the Iranian Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan: The force of aggression was comprised of the Ansar Brigade; Zolfaghar artillery, a section of the Ashura division based in Tabriz; and a number of Kurds, both from Iran and Iraq, hired by the regime. Under the supervision of the Hamzeh military camp, the forces numbered about 2,000 and were commanded by Mohammad Jafar Sahraroudi who has a terrorist record. They were accompanied by 200 vehicles of various types, hundreds of missiles, and 130 and 155mm artillery guns.

Socialist International Congress

Iran Zamin, Sept. 23 - In a statement on Sept. 11, the twentieth SI congress in New York protested the Iranian regime's attacks on Kurds who have taken refuge in the Iraqi Kurdistan.

Stop sabotage or else...

Al-Ahram, editorial, Sept. 21 - How long the Iranian regime wants to create insecurity and ignite fire in the countries in the region, breaching the grace of neighborhood, trampling upon the Islamic orders it preaches about round the clock? ... The fascist, outlaw, and terrorist nature of this regime has not changed despite the death of the founder of this sanguinist regime. It seems that this regime has not given up the illusion of the "export of revolution..."

The dirty hands of this regime is drenched in blood. It has not learned its lessons from the heavy defeat it suffered in the first Gulf war against Iraq, where hundreds of thousands of youths were sent to war without any training, tens of thousands of whom were killed and wounded and thousands captured.

The time has come for the Iranian regime to confess to its crimes against the peoples of the region and against the people of Iran. Indeed, the time has come for it to stop its savage destruction of the resources of the region, otherwise it will receive another crushing blow which will completely annihilate it.

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