39th UN censure of mullahs

NCR secretariat, Dec. 12 - The UN's 51st session of the General Assembly in New York, voted 79 to 30 to denounce violations of human rights by the clerics in Iran.

United Nations for the 39th times condemned the "continuing violations of human rights" in Iran, including "the high number of executions," torture, "restrictions on the freedom of expression, thought, opinion and the press," "widespread discrimination against women," "significant toughening of criminal legislation," and the "harassment and persecution" of "writers and members of the press" in Iran.

Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in a statement, welcomed the resolution and said: "The decisive vote of the highest international human rights body, for the twelfth consecutive year, against the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran makes it all the more imperative that the mullahs' murderous regime be expelled from the international community... and that Iran's seat at this body be transferred to the National Council of Resistance of Iran which represents the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people.

Massive arrests follow Kermanshah riots

AFP, Dec. 12 - [The Iranian Resistance says] that over 1,000 opponents have been arrested and taken under torture following the riots last week in Kermanshah, and without interventions of the international community, there is a possibility that they would be massacred...

NCR President Massoud Rajavi issued an urgent call to the United Nations and international human rights organizations urging them to bring pressure on the Iranian regime to prevent the suppression and massacre of those arrested in Kermanshah.

The Mojahedin statement also says that the terrorists of the Iranian regime murdered "six Iranian Kurdish dissidents in Sourdash, Iraqi Kurdistan."

Kurdish dissidents assassinated

Voice of Khebat organization of Iranian Kurdistan, Dec. 10 - On Sunday, December 8, Abbas Rahmani, known as Abbas Shakak was assassinated at 11 am by agents of the mullahs' regime in Sulaymania [Iraqi Kurdistan].

Another person, Kamal Kouleh, was assassinated on November 28. Also, terrorists of the Islamic Republic entered the headquarters of the Union of the Revolutionaries of Kurdistan in Sourdash region. 14 persons were there. The next day bodies of six of them were discovered by the local people and the fate of other 8 is unknown.

Declaring support for a faltering regime!!

Abrar, Dec. 8 - The gathering of 50,000 Bassijis, members of the Hezbollah battalion of Arak, was held in the presence of the Commander of National Bassij. The Commander of the Guards Corps in the central province said the objective of this gathering was to declare support for the absolute rule of the Velayat-e Faqih, prepare the Bassij for taking part in the 350,000-strong Ashura maneuvers, declare support for the government, and renew pledge of adherence to the aspirations of the martyrs of the Islamic Revolution.

Iran, Dec. 8 - Commander of the Bassij Resistance Forces in the country said: 17,000 bases of student Bassij have been formed to-date throughout the country. According to IRNA, Brigadier General Alireza Afshar said in Arak: 2,600,000 students of junior and senior high schools are members of this base.

Another round up of satellite dishes

Radio France International, Dec. 10 - According to Iran newspaper, published in Tehran, the Iranian police confiscated 1,500 satellite dishes last month in Tehran. Satellite dishes were banned in Iran last Spring. Violators face fines of one million rials and their equipment are confiscated.

Frankfurter Allgemeine, Dec. 10 - Hard-line and ideologue agents of the regime were assigned the task of systematic tracing and destruction of satellite dishes. This is officially reasoned under the pretext of protecting the youths and the public in general, against the "shallow, dirty movies of the West"....

What is not said is that the reason for banning satellite dishes is extremely political. More important than public ethics, it is political influence that is coming from abroad. This includes not only the western programs like what is broadcast from Turkey, but the programs beamed by opposition transmitters which cover western regions of Iran. Satellite dishes are better receivers for the programs of the National Council of Resistance and the Mojahedin, broadcast from Iraq...

The riots last week in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, are probably better explained by such influences from abroad.

FOREIGN

Plane-loads of arms for Hezbollah

AFP, Dec. 14 - L.A. Times reported Saturday that Iran sends several plane-loads of weapons and humanitarian aid every month to the Islamist militia of Lebanon's Hezbollah via Syria. The cargo is primarily military equipment but includes some humanitarian aid as well. The sources who were not identified by the newspaper said the military equipment include Russian made Katyusha rockets and sagger missiles.

Mullahs backed Dhahran attack

ABC World News Tonight, Dec. 6 - Six suspects are in custody who the Saudis claim are part of a group called Hezbollah Gulf, supported by Iran and believed responsible for the [June Khobar Towers] bombing. Saudi sources say the suspects only played a support role for the actual bombers....

During their interrogation, the six men provided details of what the Saudis say is a terrorist network supported from the outside. While at a Shiite religious celebration in Syria, the men were recruited by an Iranian intelligence agent. During the next year and a half, they spent time in Iran's holy city of Qom and two Hezbollah guerrilla training bases...

The details do support one disturbing conclusion for which the US has its own growing body of intelligence: that Iran was a major player in the terrorist bombing of Khobar Towers.

The Washington Post, Dec. 11 - The government of Saudi Arabia has given the Clinton administration detailed data intended to support the Saudis' belief that the June bombing of a U.S. military housing complex in the kingdom was carried out by Saudi Shiite extremists who were trained in Lebanon and acted with the support of the Iranian government.

Prince Naif ibn Abdulaziz, the Saudi interior minister in charge of security, handed over the evidence to the director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, when Mr. Freeh visited Riyadh last month.

The data included confessions extracted from some 40 Saudi Shiites detained and accused of involvement in the bombing, results of Saudi wiretaps and other electronic eavesdropping, and a detailed account of the movements of key alleged conspirators into and out of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon's Bekaa, Damascus and Tehran, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Arms buildup

AFP, Dec. 14 - The German Judiciary began investigations about the directors of a branch of the Iranian company DIO (Iranian Defense Organization) in Dusseldorf which is suspected of being the center for Iran's arms purchases in Europe. Der Tagesspiegel and Focus wrote on Monday that the directors of DIO are accused of giving illegal assistance to Iran's weapons program...

So tremendous were the purchases that the Custom's special research services set up a special investigation committee, Der Tagesspiegel wrote. Investigators have been able to find access to hundreds of files on sensitive transportations and are suspicious that this branch could have delivered equipment to Iran for its weapons program, including biological weapons.

Rushdie: Critical dialogue was ineffective Reuters, December 10 - British author Salman Rushdie told the European Union on Tuesday that its attempts to lift an Iranian death threat hanging over him had been largely ineffective and needed "teeth" to make them worthwhile....

"I do think that the critical dialogue has been largely ineffective and one of the reasons for that is it seems to have very few teeth," he said. "I'm interested in ways in which teeth can be inserted into the process."...

Trying to influence Mykonos trial

Reuters, Dec. 13 - Bonn believes an Iranian journalist missing since he failed to arrive in Germany on a flight from Tehran is still in Iran, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday in contradiction of an Iranian newspaper report....

On Friday Sarkuhi's wife Farideh Zebarjad, who has received political asylum in Germany, made public a letter she had written to Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

"Your reasons (for maintaining a so-called critical dialogue with Iran) were that you could persuade the Iranian government to respect human rights. Clearly this is a serious breach of human rights...."

Zebarjad said she feared her husband was being held as a bargaining chip in the case of four Lebanese and an Iranian being tried in Berlin on suspicion of assassinating Iranian dissidents. Prosecutors have angered Iran by saying Tehran ordered the killings, an accusation it denies.

Israeli radio, Dec. 9 - IPS news agency reported that Iran's Islamic regime of Iran make heavy investments in the purchase of land in former East Germany to influence the German government and the Mykonos trial. A German expert told IPS that economically and financially, such Iranian investments are very much harmful but the Tehran regime may spend billions of marks to influence the government of Germany and do something to prevent the Mykonos trial from declaring the leaders of the Islamic regime, and particularly Khamenei, as terrorists.

Aiming for an Islamic republic in S. Africa

The Sunday Telegraph, Dec. 8 - Western governments have been warned to tighten security at embassies and multi-national office complexes in South Africa after reports that Iranian agents are providing terrorist training for Cape Town's notorious Muslim vigilantes.

The warning follows mounting evidence that the Iranian intelligence ministry has agreed a mutual cooperation pact with the Cape Town-based vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)....

The Iranians have agreed to provide financial support and training to Pagad members. In return Pagad will act as Iran's "eyes and ears" in Africa.

Iran's intelligence ministry is interested in building a terrorist network in South Africa both for strategic reasons and because it believes there are many "soft" Western targets that can be attacked....

Two Pagad activists are reported to have traveled to Iran on false passports last month for terrorist training at the Imam Rida camp, at Mashhad in western Iran. The camp has, in the past, been used to train Islamic extremists from Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan and specialises in bomb-making techniques.

"When these people return to South Africa they will be fully-trained," a security source said. "They can then be activated at any time to carry out attacks against Western targets."

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