DOMESTIC

Satellite broadcast into Iran

The Iranian Resistance's television had a special satellite broadcast on October 21 on the anniversary of the election of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect. The program was broadcast simultaneously in Iran and in Europe and lasted two hours.

Veteran peshmarga assassinated

Voice of the Khebat organization of the Iranian Kurdistan, Oct. 11 - The political and military committee of the national and Islamic organization of the Iranian Kurdistan, Khebat, announced: The latest crime committed by the Velayat-e Faqih regime, was the murder of Ali Darmaii, a veteran peshmarga of the Khebat, in Halabjeh, Iraqi Kurdistan.

Seventh priest murdered

Israeli radio, Oct. 14 - The National Conference which is headquartered in Rome, announced that Pastor Mohammad Youssefi, the assistant Bishop of the Church of Sari (northern Iran), whose lifeless body was handed over to his wife and two children two weeks ago, had been murdered by two agents of the Islamic regime. The National Conference organization identified the two as Sheikh Ali Akbar Adab and Seyyed Mohammad Shafii. Sheikh Reza Rezaiian, the Islamic revolutionary judge of Sari, ordered Youssefi's murder, the NC reported.

Students mentally repressed

Voice of Mojahed, oct. 16 - The clerical regime confessed that 2% of the Iranian students are afflicted with psychological and behavioral disorders. 125,000 students have psychological diseases.

Cement production halted

Voice of Mojahed radio, Oct. 18 - A number of major cement factories in different parts of the country recently stopped production. The price of cement has consequently risen, halting many construction projects.

Fall in imports from Germany

Voice of America, Oct. 16 - Iranian imports from Germany dropped 17% to $415 million in the first four months of the current year compared to the same period last year.

Moussavi for president

Pejvak radio, Sweden, Oct. 19 - According to a report by the daily Ressalat, the political committee of the Assembly of the Militant Clergy publicly nominated Mir Hossein Moussavi as presidential candidate. Mehdi Karroubi, former speaker of Majlis, Moussavi Kho'einiha, producer of the daily Salam, Mohammad Khatami, former minister of guidance, and Mohammad Mohtashami, former minister of interior, are members of this group. Following a meeting between the representatives of the radical groups of the Islamic Republic led by Moussavi Ardebili, Karroubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi, the latter announced his agreement in principle to be nominated for presidency, Ressalat reported.

FOREIGN

NCR health committee at Harvard

October 3, 1996 - A delegation representing the Iranian Resistance took part in the second international conference on health and human rights at Harvard University, Boston, U.S. Dr. Saleh Rajavi, chairman of the NCR's Medical and Health Committee headed the delegation and addressed the conference on the situation of health in Iran.

CDU challenges Kinkel's critical dialogue

Frankfurter Rundshaw, Oct. 19 - A group of ten members of the parliament from the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) urged Kinkel to end the policy of critical dialogue. Otto Wilhelm said: Kinkel's diplomacy has failed. Iran continues to commit political murders. Germany must join the United States and boycott Iran.

Frankfurter Rundshaw, Oct. 17 - The Christian Democratic youths in the province of Essen have urged the government to close all the Iranian consulates and decrease the number of diplomats working at the Iranian embassy in Bonn to a minimum.

NCR secretariat, Oct. 19 - The NCR lauds the courageous initiative by CDU MPs and views it as another indication of the German public's opposition to the appeasement of the mullahs. It is in line with the aspirations of the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people.

New testimony on mullahs' terrorism

AFP, Oct. 18 - The testimony behind closed doors by an Iranian exile, called "Source C" and identified as a former member of the Iranian government, concluded Friday in Berlin. The Mykonos trial seems to be concluding soon. Der Speigel wrote that "Source C" had pointed to Tehran's involvement in international terrorism and explained the apparatus and modus operandi of state-sponsored terrorism in Iran. Banisadr introduced another witness to the court, whom he calls "Source B". He has testified before the German Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe.

More terrorist training

NCR secretariat, Oct. 18 - Despite the discovery and confiscation of two giant mortar-launchers in February and March, in Baghdad-Iraq, and Antwerp-Belgium, which were to target the leadership of the Iranian Resistance, the mullahs' Intelligence Ministry has trained more agents in recent months on how to deploy this killer gun. According to reports from within the regime, a team of four members of the Intelligence Ministry received a two-week training on how to use the weapon in July and another group of five were trained in August.

The training took place in the Imam-Sadeq base camp on Tehran-Qom road. The camp belongs to the Qods Force, the Guards Corps' arm for extra-territorial activities. The GC Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi, commander of the Qods Force, directly supervised the special training which was conducted in coordination with the Intelligence Ministry.

Former Afghan leader in Iran

Radio France International, Oct. 16 - The Islamic Republic of Iran announced that all of its embassy staff had left Kabul and gone to regions still controlled by the former government. Only one person has remained at the embassy to take care of the consular routines. There are unconfirmed reports that Borhaneddin Rabbani, the ousted president of Afghanistan has arrived in Mashhad [northeastern Iran].

Military aggression on Iraqi Kurdistan

Mojahedin's headquarters in Iran, Oct. 14 - The mullahs suffered a defeat last month as the bases of its agents in the Iraqi Kurdistan, where they plotted terrorist and espionage operations, were demolished in northern Iraq. To compensate for this blow, the mullahs readily began preparations to resume their aggressions on the Iraqi Kurdistan.

To this end, the regime's leader, Ali Khamenei, traveled to Oroumieh, western Iran. He was accompanied by the Chief of the Armed Forces' General Staff, General Commander of the Guards Corps, chiefs of the Joint Staff of the Army and Guards Corps, commanders of the ground and air forces of the military and Guards Corps, and commander of the regime's Security Forces.

On September 19, the Armed Forces held a special ceremony in the presence of Khamenei at Hamzeh garrison in Oroumieh. The Guards Corps Brigadier General Kazemi, commander of the garrison, reported on military and intelligence activities against the opponents of the regime. He was followed by Khamenei who spoke on the state of anarchy prevailing in the Iraqi Kurdistan.

Since the beginning of October, the Khomeini regime began its extensive military transportations towards the border. Concentration of the troops took place at Nasr garrison in Naqadeh, Sardasht region, near the border with Iraq.

Movement of troops and equipment also took place north of Qasr-e Shirin, by the Iraqi border, on October 3. The forces hired from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan were simultaneously transferred to this region. Supply of arms and equipment was undertaken by the Command HQ of Ramadan garrison in Tehran.

Previously, Kermanshah's Zafar garrison had troops stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan. They had fled back to Iran some three weeks earlier from Darbandikhan in Iraq. The GC general Nouri, commander of the regime's forces in Darbandikhan, also took his forces to the border region to prepare for getting stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan. GC commanders told the troops that "on the orders of H.E. the Leader [Khamenei]..., we must have a liberated region under a suitable cover in the Iraqi Kurdistan."

On the 9, 10 and 11th of October, the regime began its extensive aggression on five axes.

The Guards Corps made extensive use of heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers. GC commander Karami, commander of the Ramadan garrison, and commanders Mesgarian, Hanif and a number of other Guards Corps commanders are also present in the Iraqi Kurdistan and engaged in the massacre of the prisoners captured from the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq.

The mullahs' General Staff of Armed Forces led the operations from Tehran under the direct supervision of Khamenei. Instructions were given by GC Brigadier General Rashid, commander of operations in the regime's General Staff of Armed Forces, to Brigadier General Aziz Jafari, commander of the ground forces of the Guards Corps in Tehran. The General Staff of the regime's Armed Forces has emphasized that this operation aimed at taking back Suleymania Province in Iraq.

Analysis

Funeral ceremony for the War Dead

With much ballyhoo on October 16, the clerical regime held a grand funeral for the remains of 750 soldiers killed in the Iran- Iraq War. Ali Khamenei, the regime's leader, Akbar Rafsanjani, president, Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri, the Majlis speaker and Mohammad Yazdi, the Chief Justice, were present at the ceremonies. The radio and television networks launched a major call from a few days ahead to revive the atmosphere of the war days. The question is why did the regime need such theatrics, hated by the general public in Iran? In an address to the ceremony, Nateq Nouri was most explicit on the answer. On behalf of the regime's leaders, he vowed to pursue the path of those killed in the war, with ever greater might and resolve. The simultaneity of these remarks with the regime's ongoing aggressions into northern Iraq leaves no doubts as to the regime's intentions.

The truth is that the mullahs' regime does not want to and cannot take any steps towards a lasting peace. This has been proven in the past years as the regime has distanced itself from peace more and more every day and drummed up the atmosphere of war.

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