This Week

Guilty Or Coerced?

The confession of an Iranian Jew
sparks many new concerns.

reportedly also admitted to being
trained and paid by the Mossad, the
Israeli intelligence agency. After the
hearing, the authorities assailed him for
New York
carrying out this work for "the love of
ranian hard-liners are showing
Israel" — and for the money.
no signs of backing down in the
Israel, for its part, steadfastly denied
trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused
the
link and stepped up its rhetoric
of spying for Israel.
after
hoping for months that interna-
However, what
ti nal diplomatic
. _ o
remains unclear —
4 pressure would
in light of a state-
swing Iran and
televised confession
fearing that too
Monday of the
strident an Israeli
alleged leader,
campaign would
o
Hamid "Dani"
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rebound against
Tefileen — is
the
prisoners.
whether Tefileen will
Israeli
Foreign
take the fall for the
Ministry
entire group, or if his
spokesman Aviv
confession will pro-
Sharon told
vide ammunition
n
Iranian
Jew,
leaves
reporters Monday -
Dani
Tefileen,
a
for punishing some
d
by
a
police
officer
in
Israel that "the
the
court
escorte
or all of the accused.
d
on
state
television.
after
he
confesse
attempt
to present
To the despair of
the
Jewish
family, friends and
detainees as spies is outrageous and
American Jewish advocates of the Iran
cruel. Israel reiterates that the detainees
13, no representatives of the media,
are innocent and should be released
human rights organizations or Jewish
immediately."
groups were allowed to monitor
The Israeli stamp in Tefileen's pass-
Monday's first-day proceedings.
port
seems to be, from Iran's perspec-
The reason, said officials of Iran's
tive,
the smoking gun for the entire
Revolutionary Court, was fear for
, "national security."
case, said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive
In this and all Iranian court
cases, the judge also acts as investi-
gator, prosecutor and jury, which
observers say is clearly a recipe for
judicial abuse.
Monday's hearing — which had
been postponed from April 13
until after Passover — did little to
assuage that concern.

MICHAEL J. JORDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Admits To Visit

In his confession, Tefileen, a
devoutly religious man from the
southern city of Shiraz, admitted
to visiting Israel in 1994.
Iran has denounced Israel as its
archenemy. After their arrest more
than one year ago, the Iran 13 —
including religious and communi-
ty leaders and one teenager —
were also accused of spying for the
United States. Only Israel was
mentioned Monday.
Interviewed by state television
after Monday's hearing, Tefileen

Free on bail:
Navid Bala Zadeh, 17,

Isfahan.
Nejat BrouOlim, 36, Isfahan,
Omid Tefileen, 26, Shiraz
(brother of Hamid Tefileen).

