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* Khatami appeals for political freedom
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* Trial of Kadivar ends, verdict awaited
* MKO vows to kill Iran officials
* Kadivar rejects charges of spreading propaganda
* Kadivar's trial tests freedom limits
* Ms. Kadivar denies remarks
* Man stoned to death for killing his three sons
* Case of obscure cleric exposes Iran divisions
* Faezeh Hashemi to appear before court
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Friday
April 16, 1999
* Khatami appeals for political freedom in Iran
TEHRAN, April 15 (AFP) - Iran's moderate President Mohammad Khatami
appealed Thursday for the development of political freedoms amid an offensive
launched against his supporters by powerful conservative rivals. "Freedom
within the framework of law is a must for society and youth," Khatami
said during a tour of the western province of Lorestan ... FULL TEXT
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* Supreme leader warns against internal enemies
TEHRAN, April 15 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has urged the armed forces of the Islamic Republic to remain vigilant
against the "internal enemy." "The real enemy intends to
attack us from within by aiming to weaken our determination, faith and
firm resolution," Khamenei said in an address to troop commanders
on Wednesday ahead of Sunday's celebrations of Army Day ... FULL TEXT
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* Reformist party slams closure of moderate paper
TEHRAN, April 15 (AFP) - The Executives of Construction Party, Iran's
main reformist political group, slammed Thursday the banning of a popular
moderate newspaper as a "plot" to block President Mohammad Khatami's
reform agenda. The party criticized the "disinformation and fuss"
against the director of Zan (Woman) newspaper, Faezeh Hashemi, daughter
of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ... FULL
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* Iranian cleric's trial latest skirmish in reformist-conservative
war
TEHRAN, April 15 (AFP) - The trial of a liberal Iranian cleric accused
of spreading propoganda hostile to the Islamic regime is the latest skirmish
in the long-running war between the country's conservative and moderate
factions ... FULL
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Thursday
April 15, 1999
* Trial of Iran dissident cleric ends, verdict awaited
TEHRAN, April 15 (Reuters) - An Iranian court is due to issue a verdict
within a week after it ended the trial of a dissident theologian accused
of defaming Iran's Islamic system, newspapers reported on Thursday. The
conservative Jomhuri-ye Eslami, one of a handful of media organisations
allowed inside the courtroom for the one-day trial, quoted the judge as
saying the ruling would be issued within a week ... FULL
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* MKO vows to kill Iran officials
April 15, BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iranian exiles warned Thursday that
the assassination of a top Iranian general was only a prelude to attacks
on other senior officials in Iran. Farid Soleimani of the Mujahedeen Khalq
said his guerrilla group was prepared for a retaliatory attack from the
Iranian armed forces to avenge the killing of Brig. Gen. Ali Sayyad Shirazi.
He said the group was well equipped with tanks and helicopter gunships
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Wednesday
April 14, 1999
* Kadivar rejects charges of spreading propaganda
TEHRAN, April 14 (AFP) - Popular Iranian reformist Mohsen Kadivar rejected
Wednesday accusations he spread propaganda hostile to the Islamic regime,
charging that his trial was unconstitutional and the court incompetent
to try his case. The cleric told a special court for the clergy on the
opening day of his trial he rejected as "thoroughly false" the
charge that he was a sworn enemy of the Islamic state ... FULL
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* Kadivar's trial tests freedom limits
TEHRAN, April 14 (Reuters) - The trial of Iranian dissident theologian
Mohsen Kadivar opened before a clerical court in Tehran on Wednesday, in
a case expected to test the limits of freedom of thought in the Islamic
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* Ms. Kadivar denies remarks
Tehran, April 14, IRNA -- Ms. Jamileh Kadivar, sister of Mohsen Kadivar,
whose trial began in Tehran's special court for clerics today categorically
denied wednesday afternoon the statements which were attributed to her.[She
was] quoted as saying outside the court... that the court officials are
worse than the Shah's hangmen ... FULL
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* Iranian stoned to death for killing his three sons
TEHRAN, April 14 (Reuters) - An Iranian man was stoned to death in northern
Iran for killing his three sons who he thought would hinder his plans to
marry his mistress, a newspaper reported on Wednesday ... FULL
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Tuesday
April 13, 1999
* Case of obscure cleric exposes Iran divisions
TEHRAN, April 13 (Reuters) - A little-known Shi'ite Moslem theologian
is due to go on trial on Wednesday in a case that has exposed deep divisions
among Iran's powerful clerics, and in the broader society beyond. Mohsen
Kadivar, an outspoken mid-ranking theologian and university lecturer, stands
accused by Iran's Special Court for Clergy of using his writings to defame
the Islamic republic, confuse public opinion and insult the late revolutionary
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ... FULL
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Monday
April 12, 1999
* Daughter of former Iranian president to appear before revolutionary
court
TEHRAN, April 11 (AFP) - Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former president
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is to appear before a revolutionary court for
publishing a new year's message from the widow of the ousted Shah of Iran
in her newspaper, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday ... FULL TEXT
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* New conservative daily hits the stands in Iran
TEHRAN, April 11 (AFP) - A new conservative daily hit the newsstands
in the Iranian holy city of Qom Sunday, pledging to keep to the values
of the Islamic revolution. Entekhab (Choice), founded by a Islamic propaganda
organization and run by conservative MP Taha Hashemi, said it would work
"within the strict framework of the Islamic Republic's values and
laws, and remain loyal to the Revolution." ... FULL
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