DOMESTIC

Another protest at soccer game

Voice of Mojahed, Oct. 30 - The soccer match between Piroozi and Isteqlal teams on Friday, October 18, at Tehran's Azadi stadium turned into another public protest confronting the regime's repressive forces. Heavy damages were inflicted on government properties, including on hundreds of buses which were attacked by the spectators.

A de facto state of emergency was in force as the security forces had been placed on full alert since morning and the Guards Corps special forces stationed at various points along the way from the stadium to the city center.

Public hanging in Ahwaz

News on Iran, Oct. 29 - On Thursday, Oct. 24, the revolutionary Guards publicly hanged an alleged drug trafficker at Naderi intersection in Ahwaz (southwestern Iran) .

Poverty and women's role model

Tehran radio, Nov. 1 - Mullah Jannati addressed Tehran's Friday prayer: There are many women in our Islamic society today, who do not afford a dinner for their family. They do not afford fruits, at any season. They do not afford to by a piece of cake for their children. They do not have any place to live, no place to stay...

Everyone faces much ups and downs in his life, illnesses and troubles, paralysis and poverty... Yet at all these stages, women must keep in step with their husbands. This is the model. Woman should never get mad at her husband, never. She should not hurt him or make him discontent. A woman must bear with all the problems of her husband.

80% choose not to return

Tehran radio, Nov. 2 - Mullah Zarandi, Friday prayer leader of Kermanshah: From every 100 students who go abroad to continue their education, 80 never return. We must gradually stop sending students abroad.

School books not available

Iran Zamin radio, Oct. 27 - Some two months past the new academic year, many students still do not have any text books. Quoting a student, Akhbar reported that the text books of the second junior year have not been distributed, yet.

Invisible unemployment

Iran, Oct. 29 - A Majlis deputy, Danesh Jafari, told the press: Some 33% of the 15 million job holders in the country do not have any role in the national production and it is just as if they are unemployed.

Workers killed and handicapped

Jomhouri Islami, Oct. 29 - The Ministry of Labor announced that ten workers were killed and 68 wounded in accidents at the work place during the [Persian] month of Mehr (Sept. 22-Oct. 21). In eight cases, workers were handicapped. Price hike

Kayhan, Oct. 29 - The price of laundry machine detergent rose from 120 to 133 toumans in just two weeks and the price of liquid dish washing detergent from 120 to 145 toumans. A bar of soap previously costing 42 toumans, is sold at 78 toumans.

Extravagance

Tehran radio, Nov. 1 - In continuing its humanitarian aid to the people of Tajikestan, the Islamic Republic of Iran sent another plane load of 13 tons of food stuff to the capital of this country. Another caravan containing 50 tons of medicine, clothing, and foodstuff was also sent by ground transportation to Doshanbeh. By opening the branches of Imam Khomeini Aid Committee in Doshanbeh and other parts of Tajikestan, our country has granted 11 million dollars worth of material aid to those deprived and homeless in this countr in the past four yearsy.

Maneuvers in southern Tehran

Tehran radio, Nov. 1 - The maneuvers by the Army's 23rd Division of commando forces was successfully carried out in Robat Karim (southern Tehran). It was supported by the air corps and a heavy barrage of artillery fire. The 2nd infantry brigade of the special forces of the 23rd Division launched a destructive operation, and surrounded the assembly point and the positions of the assumed enemy.

Final stage

Al-Hayat, Oct. 30 - The statement of the opposition, People's

Mojahedin of Iran, whose military bases are in Iraq, emphasized that the Iranian government makes extensive incursions into Iraq... The statement quotes Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the organization, as saying that Iran's rulers are trying to deflect the country's crises abroad before they reach the point of explosion...

Addressing a grand meeting of thousands of National Liberation Army combatants on the election anniversary of his wife, Maryam Rajavi, as the Iranian President-in-exile, Rajavi said: The Tehran regime is going through its final stage.

Dissidents killed, abducted

NCR secretariat, Nov. 1 - An Iranian dissident, Ali Mowlaii, was assassinated in Islamabad, Pakistan. The number of victims of terrorist assassinations by the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship in this year thus reaches 15.

Another Iranian dissident, Reza Afshar, has also been abducted in Islamabad. At the same time, seven Iranian Kurds have been kidnapped near Sulaymania (Iraqi Kurdistan), and turned over to the Khomeini regime's Guards Corps in Paveh (western Iran).

The NCR condemns these terrorist crimes and calls on Pakistan's judiciary to pursue and prosecute their perpetrators.

FOREIGN

German writers protest critical dialogue

DPA, Nov. 2 - The league of German writers in Berlin issued a statement on Saturday strongly criticizing the foreign policy of the government of Germany vs. China, Iran, Indonesia, and Burma... As for Iran, the writers have vehemently criticized the policy of critical dialogue with the world's number-one exporter of terror and the Iranian regime's state-sponsored terrorism.

Vatican meeting denounced

NCR Committee on freedom of religion, Nov. 1 - Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's secretary for international relations, received on October 29, mullah Emami Kashani, one of the leaders of the Tehran regime. The spokesman for the mullahs' embassy in the Vatican City said the meeting addressing "relations between Muslims and Christians," was "constructive."

The meeting in Vatican took place while two weeks ago the Khomeini regime's operatives murdered a Christian priest, Mr. Mohammad Bagher Youssefi. The mullahs who have not succeeded in whitewashing their blood-stained record of murdering Christian leaders and in beguiling the public opinion, will undoubtedly use the Vatican meeting for covering up their crimes and stepping up suppression of the Christian community in Iran.

Terror network

Washington Post, Nov. 2 - .U.S. officials have said recently that they believe Tehran has used its embassies and other resources throughout the Middle East and even in South America to build and support an international network of Islamic extremist groups under its authority....

U.S. officials say the Lebanese-based Hezbollah, or the "Party of God," has received hundreds of millions of dollars from Tehran over the past decade and served as Iran's principal proxy for mounting terrorist operations....

Iran has been using its embassies around the world to establish Hezbollah cells "that operate under the guidance and with the intelligence of Iranian embassies," Philip C. Wilcox Jr., the State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, said in a recent interview....

Appeasement: Counterproductive!

Reuters, Oct. 24 - A senior U.S. official, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Peletreau, said the United States hopes to start a dialogue with Iran should President Clinton be re-elected to the office for another term, Reuters reported from Dubai. Mr. Peletreau said the U.S. is opposed to some of the policies of Iran, but the absence of bilateral talks is not satisfactory.

AFP, Oct. 25 - In his Friday prayer sermon at Tehran University, Rafsanjani expressed his conviction that "the United States and Israel's rejection of an active role by Europe and France in the Middle East showed that the United States is in fact a wolf appearing in shepherd's attire among the Arab countries...."

The Iranian president said Americans "do not have the right to mediate [between Arabs and Israelis] because they are not impartial." "The people of the region saw for themselves that the United States is not a friend of Arabs," he added.

AFP, Nov. 3 - On the seventeenth anniversary of the hostage-taking at the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979, several thousand Iranians marched Sunday in Tehran shouting "Death to the Great Satan," the United States. The demonstrators gathered at a trade center in front of the former American embassy compound in Tehran, to express their "fury and outrage at the U.S." as "the main enemy of Iran and the Islamic Revolution." On this anniversary, which comes two days ahead of the American elections, Iranian leaders express their "intransigence" and expose "any compromises with America..."

Tehran radio, Nov. 3 - Rafsanjani announced that the Iranian nation's war on the World's Arrogance and her battle with the Satanic power of America, has weakened and frustrated the U.S. "Security, progress and the power of the Islamic Republic which has always thrived on war against the U.S. and its allies, is an outcome of the revolutionary spirit, patience and steadfastness of our people in the face of difficulties."

IRTV, Nov. 2 - Amini, the Friday prayer leader of Qom: The occupation of the nest of spies [i.e. the American Embassy] was a very important and significant factor which changed the method of struggle and turned all the attentions towards the United States. As Khomeini later pointed out, this was indeed very important at the time. By doing so, we humiliated the U.S. in the world in an unprecedented manner. The U.S. had not ever suffered such a humiliation... Looking at the trend of events that followed, you can see that ever since, the United States was humiliated every where and the world found that it can humiliate the U.S. Anti-American moves thus began in Muslim and non-Muslim countries. They followed [the American hostage-taking] and this si going to continue for ever.

FEATURE

Iran curiously passive

By Joseph Fitchett, Paris

International Herald Tribune, Oct. 24, Excerpts- The Islamic regime in Tehran, long viewed as a regional threat, appears to be losing its ability to influence developments on its own borders, Western officials said Wednesday....

Iran's passivity reflects Tehran's worsening domestic situation. Its armed forces decaying, its economic horizons buried in debt, its population deeply disaffected, the mullahs' regime has little scope for international action, according to the Western officials....

The toll of the Iran-Iraq bloodletting has demoralized Iran's armed forces and revolutionary Guards. Engineers apparently have reached the limit of what cannibalizing can do to salvage some of Iran's U.S.-made arsenal.

Economically, the U.S. embargo has deterred foreign companies from risking their U.S. interests by investing in Iran. "The country has become unbankable," a financial specialist said. Investors might have been readier to defy the unilateral U.S. sanctions if Iran had not accumulated $30 billion in unpaid bills in the early 1990s.

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