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News & Views Iran's national security body meets over spate of murders TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - Iran's National Security Council has held an emergency meeting to discuss a spate of suspicious disappearances and murders of liberal intellectuals in the Islamic republic, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday. The council, Iran's highest political and military decision-making body, met late Saturday, presided over by President Mohammad Khatami, it said. Intelligence Minister Ghorban-Ali Dorrie-Najafabadi and Interior Minister Abdol-Vahed Musavi-Lari "provided reports on the recent suspicious deaths and murders." "The ministries were instructed to seriously and ceaselessly pursue the issue until final results are achieved," IRNA said. Three liberal writers and two political dissidents have been found murdered or dead in mysterious circumstances in the past month. The latest Mohammad Pouyandeh, an art critic and translator active in calls for freedom of expression, was found dead in the town of Shahriar on the outskirts of Tehran, the government newpaper Iran said Sunday. Pouyandeh disappeared on Wednesday, the same day a fellow-member of
the Association of Iranian Writers, Mohammad Mokhtari, was reported to
have been murdered. He was found dead on Saturday. * Iran News
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