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* Fallahian "arrested" and
accused of plotting murders, coup
* Khatami defends aide against impeachment bid
* Culture minister's impeachment debate next week
* Conservatives step up attacks on reformers
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* Conservatives want liberal minister
impeached
* Kadivar sentenced to 18 months in prison
* Karbaschi appeals again
* U.S. condemns Iran crackdown on Bahai followers
* Journalists appeal to Khatami for protection
* Khatami appeals for political freedom
* Supreme leader warns against internal enemies
* Reformist party slams closure of moderate paper
* Kadivar's trial latest skirmish
* 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
* New conservative daily hits the stands
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Thursday
April 22, 1999
* Fallahian "arrested" and accused of plotting murders,
coup
Former intelligence minister Ali Fallahian has been arrested on charges
of plotting political murders and organizing a coup against President Khatami,
according to a flier distributed in Tehran and published by an opposition
group in Europe ... FULL
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* Khatami defends aide against impeachment bid
TEHRAN, April 22 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami defended
his moderate culture minister against impeachment proceedings launched
by hardline parliamentary deputies and expressed hope he would survive
the motion, newspapers said on Thursday ... FULL
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* Culture minister's impeachment debate next week
TEHRAN, April 22 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament said Thursday it would
hear an impeachment motion against moderate Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani
next week as the minister lashed out at the move as "totally political."
Mohajerani will be called before all 270 deputies next Wednesday to defend
himself against a censure motion launched by 31 conservative MPs ... FULL TEXT
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* Conservatives step up attacks on reformers
TEHRAN, April 22 (AFP) - An impeachment bill against a key minister,
pressure on the press, the jailing of a liberal cleric -- these are just
the latest attacks on Iran's reform movement by the conservative regime.
Political tensions, already high for several weeks, reached a new crescendo
Wednesday with the submission to parliament of a censure motion against
Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani ... FULL
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Wednesday
April 21, 1999
* Iran conservatives want liberal minister impeached
TEHRAN, April 21 (Reuters) - A group of conservative Iranian deputies
called on Wednesday for the impeachment of Iran's moderate culture minster,
in the latest assault on President Mohammad Khatami's reforms ... FULL
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* Kadivar sentenced to 18 months in prison
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Mohsen Kadivar, a liberal cleric charged with
spreading propaganda hostile to Iran's Islamic regime, has been sentenced
to 18 months in prison, his lawyer announced Wednesday. Hossein Musavi
Tabrizi told the official IRNA news agency that Kadivar, who is close to
reformist President Mohammad Khatami, had been sentenced to prison by the
hardline Special Court for Clergy ... FULL
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* Karbaschi appeals again for retrial on corruption charges
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Tehran's former moderate mayor Gholamhossen
Karbaschi, convicted last year of corruption, lodged another appeal to
the supreme court Wednesday seeking a retrial, his lawyer said. The move
followed the failure Tuesday of a similar appeal to the supreme court by
Karbaschi, who faces arrest at any time to serve a two-year jail term imposed
in December ... FULL
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Tuesday
April 20, 1999
* U.S. condemns Iran crackdown on Bahai followers
WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - The United States, in a departure from
a recent warming of relations, on Tuesday expressed concern over Iran's
sentencing of four members of the Bahai faith and condemned persecution
of Bahai followers. ``We are deeply concerned about the recent sentencing
to prison of four Iranian citizens for the exercise of their Bahai faith,''
the White House said in a statement ... FULL
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Monday
April 19, 1999
* Journalists appeal to Khatami for protection
TEHRAN, April 18 (AFP) - Over 320 Iranian journalists have called on
President Mohammad Khatami to guarantee their legal rights and stop newspaper
bans. "We ask that journalism be recognized as a distinct profession
and be afforded all legal services and support," the journalists said
in a letter to Khatami published by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL TEXT
* Also see "Hamshahri" news about journalists voicing
their concerns... FULL
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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
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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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