Copyright 1993 Agence France Presse
                          Agence France Presse

HEADLINE: Egyptian arrested after mock threat to blow up  Iran's
Paris mission

DATELINE: PARIS

BODY:

     PARIS, April 16 (AFP) - An Egyptian man held police at bay
for several hours outside the Iranian Embassy here, threatening
to blow up the building to protest against terrorism and
fundamentalism.

      The man in his thirties, who was identified only as "an
Egyptian national ," displayed a banner outside the embassy
gate and said he was in possession of several sticks of dynamite
he threatened to set off.