ecatoot &ow-ea, lac. WHERE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE! Protest in Spy Case • Innovative designs • Impeccable installation 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying amid stepped-up efforts for their release. • Incomparable service • 17 years of experience JULIA GOLDMAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York srael and the United States have strongly condemned the Iranian . government for charging 13 Iranian Jews with spying for America and the Jewish state. Israel called fcr the immediate release of the detainees, and the United States criticized the arrests, saying, "They are a very disturbing signal." Iran's state-run radio broad- cast a report of the charges Monday, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation and Associated Press. The 13 "were accused of spying for the 'Zionist regime' and 'world arro- gance,' references to Israel and the United States respectively," the AP report said. Espionage is punishable by death in Iran, the AP report said, noting that in 1997 Iran hanged two people convicted of spying for Israel and America. Israel's Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday met briefly with United Nations Secretary-General Koff Annan to discuss the arrests. Annan has made "numerous approaches on behalf of these peo- ple," according to Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which has been involved in the issue since the Jews were arrested in March. In New York on a personal visit, Sharon on Tuesday declared that "none of the arrested men was involved in espionage and that none of them has, or has had in the past, any connection with any Israeli intel- ligence agency," according to a state- ment from Israel's Foreign Ministry. "Israel is worried about these arrests, which have occurred only because they are Jewish. Israel is deeply concerned about their fate and demands their immediate release," the statement said. The detainees — who are believed to include rabbis, teachers and leaders of the Isfahan and Shiraz communi- ties in southwestern Iran — had been held for nearly three months without I 248.855.8747 Call today for your free in-home consultation V eevteft Eetdd Formerly of The Closet Company, Inc. E-Z Our Exclusive Service Offers: • Home Space Planning • Packing • • Unpacking • • Deluxe Move Packages • "Everything In Place The Day You Move" Makes Your Life Easy, Ruth Schwartz ASID - IFDA (248) 352-2264 House To House EZ Move Space & Home Planner Professional Interior Designer, 30 years' experience Call for a detailed brochure! TRANSFER YOUR HOME MOVIES 8mm - 16mm TO VHS CENTURN CAMERA, r Film Length In Feet 8mm & Super 8 & 16 1-200 Feet 201-400 Feet 401-600 Feet 601-800 Feet 801-1000 Feet $20.00 $26.00 $39.00 $52.00 $65.00 Film Over 1,000 Feet Add (ie A Foot (Video Tape 58.00 Additional) } 30533 N. WOODWARD ROYAL OAK VISA Cet MENEM 6/11 1999 Erians (3 Blocks South of 13 Mile) 10 Detroit Jewish News Summer Special FREE BACKGROUND MUSIC On Any Video Transfer Century Camera 288-5444 With This Coupon. Expires 7/ 1 1 /99 L 248-288-5444 Daily & Saturday 10-6 Friday 10-8 J being charged. Testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives International Relations Committee, Martin Indyk, U.S. assis- tant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, called on Iran "to ensure that no harm comes to these individuals and to release them immediately." Hoenlein said the Presidents Conference, whose organization rep- resents 55 Jewish groups, had been working with various governments around the world to help secure the Jews' release. In addition to Annan, other repre- sentatives of the United Nations, human rights groups, Jewish organi- zations, humanitarian agencies and business people with interests in the region have been involved in the issue, Hoenlein said. The Iranian Jewish community in the United States has also been involved, he said. Advocates had worked with the utmost discretion in the hope that such cover would give Iran the "chance to back off" We received assurances all along" that the Iranian government would "take certain steps" and that "peo- ple would be released," Hoenlein said. "They promised all along different things, none of which have come to fruition." Now, he said, those involved are preparing to "go all out to respond to what's happening." Following a con- ference call Monday night, Hoenlein and Ronald Lauder, the newly installed chairman of the Presidents Conference, issued a statement in which they asked for a redoubling of all efforts on behalf of the Iranian Jews. "We call upon all civilized nations to intervene with the government of Iran to put an end to this injustice," the statement said. L Correction Hite' Day School Headmaster Mark Smiley has three children in school in Israel, not just a daughter as was men- tioned in the June 4 story "Waiting For Space."