DOMESTIC

Five Kurds killed

Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, Paris, Dec. 1 - Agents of the Islamic Repubic murdered five Iranian Kurds in northern Iran. One of the victims was the 4-year-old child of one of KDP members. They were Mohammad Rassoul Qaderzadeh, Kaveh Chalaki, and Hossein Bapiri, the party's activists from Mahabad, and Jafar Omar Bill and a four-year-old child, Amanj Pirooz sood, from the relatives of one of the Party members.

Hanging

Pejvak radio, Sweden, Nov. 29 - The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Birjand hanged Ali Sanjari, a man convicted of kidnapping, theft and drug smuggling.

Clampdown on women

AFP, Nov. 30 - Iranian Security Forces arrested on Saturday dozens of women whose covers did not comply with the Islamic criteria. AFP found out that two policewomen in black chadors arrested some ten women in Vanak Square, north Tehran, and forced them onto a bus where more women were waiting. They were going to be taken to the Security Forces High Commissioner for Social Corruption

Arrests

Radio France International, Dec. 1 - The organization of the Security Forces of the Islamic Republic reported that its agents arrested 14,670 persons in the first 8 months of the current Iranian year in connection with drugs.

U.N. Censure

Associated Press, Nov. 29, United Nations - A U.N. committee criticized Iran on Friday for its human rights policy, including a "high number" of executions, restrictions on freedom of expression and allegedly discriminating against women.

The vote in the human rights committee was 78-26 with 49 abstentions. The resolution goes to the full General Assembly, where it is expected to be approved...

The resolution, sponsored primarily by European countries, "deplores the continuing, politically motivated violence" against religious minorities in Iran and urges the government to refrain from harassing Iranians abroad...

In Paris, the opposition National Council of Resistance in Iran hailed the vote. Council President Massoud Rajavi said the Islamic regime established by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 "is the world's worst violator of human rights" and a "principal exporter of terrorism."

Iranian diplomats had lobbied strongly against the resolution, saying it was part of a U.S.-inspired campaign of "blackmail" against Tehran.

The resolution followed a report by Maurice Copithorne, a Canadian official of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, that cited increases in arrests and purges of those deemed hostile to the Islamic regime.

"There have been a number of indications that the social climate in the Islamic Republic is becoming less tolerant," the report said.... "The information reaching the special representative suggests that the condition of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran may well have deteriorated since earlier this year," the report said.

War games

BBC radio, Farsi service, Nov. 27 - The third Kilo Class submarine Iran bought from Russia will arrive in Bandar Abbas in a few days. This purchase is but a small part of Iran's considerable effort to expand its military capacity.

Iran's endeavors are closely watched by Western strategists, as the Iranian vessels are able to cloes the strait of Hormuz, the vital passage way for most of Western oil supply from the Persian Gulf.

Voice of America, Nov. 29 - In their extensive military maneuvers in the Perisan Gulf and Sea of Oman, the Iranian armed forces captured an Island from an assumed enemy.

Voice of Mojahed, Nov. 29 - The Iranian state television reported the crash of a helicopter in the naval maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, but did not elaborate on the number of casualties or the fate of occupants.

FOREIGN

Prizes for Hamas and Islamic Jihad

Al-Jordan weekly, Nov. 30 - To help the Hamas movement and Islamic Jihad, Iran has promised to give $5,000 to the family of any youth who would carry out an operaton inside Israel. The Palestinian family would receive the sum within one or two weeks after the martyrdom of their son.

Hezbollah training

The Washington Post, Dec. 1, Baalbek, Lebanon - ...At stone-walled compounds and makeshift classrooms dug into mountain caves, the officials say, Hezbollah... is teaching the craft of irregular war. According to the officials, the instructors also include members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard....

Iran... funds Hezbollah at a rate estimated by U.S. and Israeli officials at about $80 million a year....

Imad Mughniyeh, chief of Hezbollah's Special Security Apparatus, was born in the southern Lebanese town of Tir Dibas...but moved with his family to Tehran several years ago. Under U.S. indictment for a hijacking murder in 1985, Mughniyeh is believed responsible for many of the hostage-takings and truck bombings that plagued Western governments in Lebanon in the 1980s.

"Classically he comes here secretly, using a false Iranian diplomatic passport," said a Lebanese official who has monitored Mughniyeh for years....

TEHRAN-BONN CRISIS

Deals to influence Mykonos trial exposed

NCR secretariat, Nov. 27 - According to the reports from within the Khomeini regime, the criminal rulers of Iran are planning to work through several European countries, including Italy and Ireland, and use continued threats, openly and secretly, against the German Judiciary officials, to convince the government of that country to interfere in the work of the Judiciary and prevent further investigations into the role of Khamenei and Rafsanjani in the terrorist crime which took place in Berlin in September 1992.

In a briefing for the high-ranking officials of his ministry, Ali Akbar Velayati, the mullahs' Foreign Minister, is reported to have referred to the German government and judiciary and said, "Experience shows that most of the time, they can interfere with that very independence [of the Judiciary]. Whenever their interests are at issue, the government can send a note to the Judiciary Branch. Governments can do this. They can give a note to the court and achieve their objective."

In yet another part of his speech, Velayati reportedly asserted, "We must close this case. We must combine two elements. One is to show force; the other is to use the levers of diplomacy. We possess both. In light of our relations with some of the European countries and considering the relations we maintain with Germany, itself, we can accomplish a lot. Taking into account that the Europeans are very well familiar with our reaction [clear reference to terrorist threats and blackmail], we are able to solve virtually every problem with the power of our diplomacy."

The Iranian Resistance condemns the mullahs' dirty deals, and once again calls on the government of Germany to reject the regime's petty maneuvers and confront its blackmail. The NCR further urges Germany to terminate its policy of critical dialogue and sever all ties with the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran.

Iranian's major demonstration in Bonn

NCR secretariat, Nov. 27 - 3,000 Iranians residing in Germany demonstrated in front of the Federal Parliament in Bonn. The participants called on Germany to sever all ties with the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship and stop critical dialogue with it. Fifteen members of the Federal Parliament joined the Iranian demonstrators. Mr. Joachim Tappé, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, addressed the gathering and called for the adoption of a decisive policy against Iran's ruling regime.

ZDF (Ch.2 TV-Germany), Nov. 27 - Thousands of Iranian opposition exiles took part in a demonstration in Bonn. The demonstrators called on the government of Germany to sever its relations with Iran. They said critical dialogue appeases the mullahs and it is unacceptable that the General Prosecutor in the Mykonos trial is receives threats from the Iranian fundamentalist government.

BBC radio, Farsi service, Nov. 28 - Ressalat reported that a demonstration yesterday by the opponents of the Islamic Republic took place in front of the German parliament. In its editorial, Ressalat said the presence and activities of Mojahedin in Germany is a serious obstacle to growing relations between the two countries.

Bundestag resolution

Deutsche Welle radio, Nov. 29 - The Federal Parliament unanimously rejected the threats by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Germany's judicial authorities in the Mykonos trial in Berlin. Members of the Bundestag urged Tehran's leading officials to stop supporting terrorist activities, respect human rights and freedom of religion, and announce their support for the Middle East peace process.The German coaltion government, made of hte Christian Democratic, Social Democratic, and Free Democratic parties did not agree with the joint proposal of the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party to change the policy of Germany toward Iran. The minority parties in the Parliament pointed out that so long as the Iranian secret services are suspected of involvement in the murder of exiled Iranians, all cooperations with this department and all sales of military equipment to Iran must be terminated.

Cleric Reminds of Rushdie Death Threats

Baltimore Sun, Nov. 30 - A leading cleric criticized German prosecutors yesterday for bringing terrorism charges against Iranian leaders and warned them to remember Salman Rushdie, the author Tehran ordered killed for allegedly insulting Islam.

"You saw what fate befell Salman Rushdie after his insults and impudence," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in a sermon broadcast on Iranian radio.

New file could delay judgment

Reuters, Nov. 28, Berlin - An extensive dossier compiled by the Iranian Foreign Ministry could delay the end of a Berlin murder trial which has damaged ties between Bonn and Tehran, state prosecutor Bruno Jost said on Thursday.

The file, which the Iranian Foreign Ministry gave to the German embassy in Tehran last week, contains information about a trial witness identified only as "Source C."

Jost told reporters at the Berlin courtroom where defence lawyers began their summing up on Thursday that the file was now being translated into German. "We have to expect that the dossier could lead to a delay in the trial," he said.

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