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* Top judge rejects violence in fighting vice
* Judiciary chief calls for clampdown on women's dress
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* Court ruling on press ban questioned
* Reformers see more trouble after daily closed
* Election board repeats annulment call
* Zan newspaper confiscated
* Banned Iran paper's head slams court , conservatives
* Moderates under increasing pressure
* Court bans newspaper which quoted Shah's widow
* Reformers brace for fresh attacks in new year
* Moderate mayor denied appeal, faces jail
* Kadivar trial set for April 14
* Court upholds two-year jail term for Karbaschi
* Farah Diba's Norouz message published in Iran
* Kadivar gets family visit for first time
* Lawyer: Kadivar to put up vigorous defense
* Another moderate cleric jailed
* Women barred from teaching boys over 10
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Friday
April 9, 1999
* Zan newspaper dubbed anti-revolutionary
The head of the Iran's conservative-domianted judiciary, Ayatollah Mohammed
Yazdi, has said that the Zan newspaper was closed for committing a counter-revolutionary
act. Speaking at Friday prayers in Teheran, he warned the Iranian press
against violating, what he called, the country's sacred values ... FULL
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* Top judge rejects violence in fighting vice
TEHRAN, April 9 (Reuters) Iran's conservative head of judiciary urged
the government on Friday to maintain Islamic morality but said people should
not be harassed in the process. Judge Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi told worshippers
at Tehran's mass Friday prayers, carried on state radio, it was the legal
duty of the government to fight corruption and crime ... FULL
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* Judiciary chief calls for clampdown on women's dress
TEHRAN, April 9 (AFP) - Iran's conservative judiciary chief Ayatollah
Mohammad Yazdi called for a government clampdown Friday on the increasing
relaxation of the strict dress code for women imposed following the 1979
Islamic revolution. "It's the government's duty to demand respect
for the dress code in public places, cinemas, parks, shops and on the
street," Yazdi told worshippers at the main Moslem weekly prayers
here ... FULL
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Thursday
April 8, 1999
* Revolutionary court ruling on press ban questioned
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - Iran's culture ministry on Thursday called on
a banned moderate paper to apologise for publishing a message from the
wife of the ousted shah but lashed out at a revolutionary court for interfering
in the case. "The possibility of making mistakes is unavoidable in
journalism," said the ministry, which is led by moderates and is close
to reformist President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Reformers see more trouble after daily closed
TEHRAN, April 8 (Reuters) - Iran's reformers have bitterly condemned
the closing by a revolutionary court of one of their leading newspapers,
fearing the move presages a broader assault on political, social and religious
liberties ... FULL
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* Election board repeats annulment call for Tehran moderates
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - Iran's conservative electoral supervisory committee
reiterated its intention to overturn the election of five leading reformists
to the Tehran municipal council, newspapers said Thursday. Committee head
and hardline MP Ali Movahedi Savoji has sent a letter to the Tehran governorship
stating that the election of the five should be invalidated because their
candidacies were illegal, the press reported ... FULL
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Wednesday
April 7, 1999
* Zan newspaper confiscated
April 7, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Authorities confiscated copies of
an Iranian newspaper Wednesday after the daily defied a ban imposed for
printing a cartoon deemed insulting to Islam, its editor said. Court officials,
citing the cartoon as well as a letter the paper published from Iran's
former empress, Farah Diba, said the moderate Zan newspaper will be banned
from publishing until after the case goes to court. A trial date was not
released ... FULL
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* Banned Iran paper's head slams court , conservatives
TEHRAN, April 7 (Reuters) - A prominent reformist Iranian newspaper
editor on Wednesday blasted the banning of her daily by an Islamic court
as part of an attack by conservatives on moderate backers of President
Mohammad Khatami. Faezeh Hashemi also said the court had exceeded its jurisdiction
in ordering an indefinite ban on her daily Zan (Woman) for quoting Iran's
former empress and printing a cartoon it deemed anti-Islamic, the Iranian
news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
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* Iranian moderates under increasing pressure from Islamic conservatives
TEHRAN, April 7 (AFP) - Iran's moderates warned Wednesday that the regime's
conservatives are trying to roll back their stunning electoral successes
with a new series of crackdowns on leading reformers. "The conservatives
want to block moderates supporting the president (Mohammad Khatami) ahead
of next year's legislative elections," said Faezeh Hashemi, a leading
moderate MP whose newspaper Zan was slapped with an indefinite ban on Tuesday
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Tuesday
April 6, 1999
* Iran court bans newspaper which quoted Shah's widow
TEHRAN, April 6 (Reuters) - A court in Iran on Tuesday ordered the closure
of a moderate newspaper which recently quoted the widow of the late shah,
a staff member at the daily said. The moderate newspaper Zan (Woman), run
by Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
aroused intense conservative anger at the weekend when it printed parts
of a message by Farah Diba, widow of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
who was toppled by the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Iran reformers brace for fresh attacks in new year
TEHRAN, April 6 (Reuters) - The threatened imprisonment of a chief ally
to President Mohammad Khatami has thrown Iran's reformists on the defensive
as the artificial truce over the long Iranian New Year holiday screeched
to a halt on Tuesday. The daily Iran said former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, instrumental in Khatami's 1997 landslide victory, had exhausted
his appeals and faced detention for two years on charges of graft, possibly
as soon as this week ... FULL
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* Iran moderate mayor denied appeal, faces jail
THERAN, April 6 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Court rejected an appeal
by Tehran's suspended moderate mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, paving the
way for his possible imprisonment on graft charges this week, the judiciary
announced on Tuesday. Karbaschi, 45, a reformer close to President Mohammad
Khatami, has been sentenced to two years in jail, banned from executive
office for 10 years and ordered to pay 1.6 billion rials ($533,000) in
fines and restitution ... FULL
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* Kadivar trial set for April 14
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- The special court for clerics has annouced that
Hojatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar's trial will begin on April 14 and be open
to the public ... FULL
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Monday
April 5, 1999
* Iran court upholds two-year jail term for convicted Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, April 3 (AFP) - Iran's supreme court has upheld a two-year prison
sentence against former reformist Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
moderate newspapers reported here Saturday. Karbaschi, who was convicted
on corruption charges last year but has been free while his case was under
appeal, is due to be arrested "in the next few days," the Sobh-e-Emrouz
paper said ... FULL
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* Farah Diba's Norouz message published in Iranian newspaper
TEHRAN, April 3 (AP) - An Iranian newspaper published on Saturday part
of a New Year message from the country's former empress, the first time
she has been quoted here since the 1979 Islamic Revolution which toppled
her husband, the Shah ... FULL
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* Kadivar gets family visit for first time
Tehran (Iran daily) - For the first time since his arrest a month ago,
Hojatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar has been visited by members of his family and
they have passed on his demands to the press ... FULL
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* Defense lawyer: Kadivar to put up vigorous defense
Tehran (Iran daily) - Hojatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar believes the special
court for clerics is not qualified to try him and he will vigorously defend
himself against accusations, his defense lawyer Hojatoleslam Hossein Mousavi
Tabrizi said ... FULL
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* Another moderate Iranian cleric jailed by religious court: newspaper
TEHRAN, April 4 (AFP) - A moderate Iranian cleric close to leading dissident
Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri has been jailed by order of Iran's hardline
special religious court, a pro-government newspaper reported Sunday. Mohammad-Ali
Nejad al-Hosseini was arrested March 20 in the central Iranian city of
Esfahan, the Sobh-e-Emrouz paper reported ... FULL
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* Women teachers barred from teaching Iranian boys older than 10
TEHRAN, April 4 (AFP) - The Iranian education ministry has forbidden
female language instructors from holding classes for schoolboys over the
age of 10, newspapers reported Sunday. "Foreign language instructors
of one sex are not authorised to give lessons to children of the opposite
sex in private schools," said an education ministry statement quoted
in the press ... FULL
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