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August 2-6, 1999 / Mordad 11-15, 1378

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* Saddam to deliver speech on Iraq's war with Iran
* No political charges against detained German
* Azerbaijan threatens to cancel presidential trip to Iran
* Export of Czech experts to Iran cannot be prevented

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* Iran's ban on Salam newspaper deals new blow to reformers
* Liberal opposition movemment protests Iran arrests
* Head of Iran's official news agency to stay on
* Khamenei reappoints representatives to top security body
* Hardline court shuts Salam daily
* Iran set to dilute clerical control of polls
* Mystery murders' out to embarrass Iran -judiciary
* Senators condemn Iranian crackdown
* U.S.-funded radio denies detained Iranian journalist
* Basij forces hold first day of manoeuvres
* Iran urges UN intervention to stop Afghan war
* Reformist student leader arrested in Iran
* Students tell of shootings, savage beatings in provinces
* MPs denounce intelligence ministry
* Iran appoints two new clerics to powerful council
* Reformist party begins campaign for parliamentary elections
* Scientists to watch eclipse in Iran
* Guards threaten further press crackdown
* Two more reporters arrested
* Norway sends ambassador after 4-year break
* Soroush attacked, observers voice concern
* German back in Iran jail on sex charge
* Khatami again stresses detente policy
* Iran gives U.S. cold shoulder

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Friday
August 6, 1999

* Saddam to deliver speech on Iraq's war with Iran

BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein will give a televised speech on Sunday marking the anniversary of the end of Iraq's 1980-88 war with its neighbour Iran, the official Iraqi News Agency said on Friday. The speech, an annual event, will include the issue of Iraqi prisoners of war still held by Iran and Baghdad's calls for peace, INA said. ``President Saddam Hussein is to give a comprehensive and profound ideological and national speech to the great Iraqi people, brave armed forces and sons of the glorious Arab nation and friends in the world on the day of days (Great Victory Day) at 11:00 a.m (0700 GMT) on August 8, 1999,'' INA said ... FULL TEXT

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* No political charges against detained German

Teheran (dpa) - There are no political charges against the detained German businessman Helmut Hofer in Iran , informed sources said Thursday. ``There are no political charges against Hofer and the remarks by the judiciary spokesman were not based on any political aspects,'' the sources said ... FULL TEXT

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* Azerbaijan threatens to cancel presidential trip to Iran

August 5, BAKU (AFP) - Azerbaijan yesterday threatened to cancel a scheduled presidential trip to Iran later this year should Tehranrefuse to deport an alleged coup plotter living there. Baku repeated its demand that Tehran hand over Mahir Javadov, accused with his brother Rovshan of attempting to overthrow President HeydarAliyev in March, 1995. Rovshan was killed during the political turmoil ... FULL TEXT

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* Export of Czech experts to Iran cannot be prevented

PRAGUE, Aug 3 (CTK, Czech News Agency) - Czech officials have been searching in vain for three months for a way of preventing Czech firms from exporting expertise and giving advice on the completion of the nuclear power plant under construction at Bushehr in Iran , reports Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes today ... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
August 5, 1999

* Iran's ban on Salam newspaper deals new blow to reformers

TEHRAN, Aug 5 (AFP) - A five-year ban slapped on Iran's popular reformist Salam newspaper, whose initial closure sparked days of bloody riots, has dealt another blow to President Mohammad Khatami's reform agenda ahead of key elections next year. "Goodbye Salam!" was the headline Kar-O-Kargar, a workers' newspaper hich like the rest of the press reported without comment Wednesday's decision by the hardline Special Court for Clergy ... FULL TEXT

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* Liberal opposition movemment protests Iran arrests

TEHRAN, Aug 5 (AFP) - An Iranian liberal opposition movement has denounced the "campaign of terror" it says is being waged against students in Iran after the wave of unrest that shook the country last month. The Iran Freedom Movement (IFM) -- which is banned but tolerated by the authorities -- said in an open letter to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, that more than 1,500 students have been arrested in Tehran and elsewhere since the unrest ... FULL TEXT

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* Head of Iran's official news agency to stay on

TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The head of Iran's official IRNA news agency, who was briefly detained in May with several other publishers close to President Mohammad Khatami, will stay in his post, a minister said on Wednesday. IRNA quoted Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Ataollah Mohajerani as saying the agency's director, Fereydoun Verdinejad, ``has agreed to remain in office.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei reappoints representatives to top security body

TEHRAN, Aug 5 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Thursday reappointed his two personal representatives to the country's highest security body, the Supreme National Security Council, for two years, state radio said ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
August 4, 1999

* Hardline court shuts Salam daily

TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iran's hardline clerical court has banned the country's leading pro-reform newspaper for five years and barred its publisher from press activities, the official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday. It said the court ordered a ban on the daily Salam for printing secret documents, while publisher and managing editor Mohammad Mousavi-Khoeiniha, a powerful leftist cleric, was suspended from journalism for three years ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran set to dilute clerical control of polls

TERHAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament on Wednesday approved the outline of a bill to dilute the power of conservative clerics to eliminate reformist candidates in next year's legislative elections. Entrenched conservatives have used such powers to block influential reformist rivals from running in past elections and improve their own numbers in parliament ... FULL TEXT

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* Mystery murders' out to embarrass Iran -judiciary

TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A series of murders of dissidents in Iran late last year were the work of a small group in the intelligence ministry which sought to destabilise the Islamic republic and embarrass it in the eyes of the world, judiciary officials said on Wednesday. In a statement on months of investigation into the mystery killings of at least four dissidents, the armed forces judicial organisation said the plot was limited to a handful of agents inside the intelligence ministry, including a deputy minister, operating without official sanction or authorisation ... FULL TEXT

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* Senators condemn Iranian crackdown

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several senators sought today to register congressional displeasure with Iran's crackdown on student protesters and democracy advocates. ``This is an untenable situation and should be loudly and categorically condemned by all free nations of the world,'' said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan ...FULL TEXT

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* U.S.-funded radio denies detained Iranian journalist w
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A U.S.-funded radio network denied Tuesday that an Iranian woman arrested in Tehran was employed by the station. Iran 's hard-line Kayhan newspaper reported Tuesday that the detained woman, Camellia Entekhabifard, had worked for Radio Free Europe, a radio station that Iran considers hostile to its establishment ... FULL TEXT

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* Basij forces hold first day of manoeuvres

TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iran's Basij volunteer paramilitary forces -- who played a key role in suppressing social unrest last month -- started three days of manoeuvres in eastern Tehran on Wednesday, state media reported. It said up to 50,000 members of the ideologically motivated Islamic Basij militia, who are organised and trained by elite army Revolutionary Guards, are expected to take part ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran urges UN intervention to stop Afghan war

TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iran has called on the United Nations to intervene to end the civil war in Afghanistan, state television said on Wednesday ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
August 3, 1999

* Reformist student leader arrested in Iran

TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A leader of Iran's biggest student group has been arrested in connection with last month's social unrest in the Islamic republic, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Ali Tavakoli, a member of the central council of the Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU), was detained on Monday after being summoned to a revolutionary tribunal for questioning about his role in student demonstrations which led to riots in mid-July ... FULL TEXT

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* Students tell of shootings, savage beatings in provinces

TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP) - Iranian students were shot and savagely beaten in Tabriz during last month's unrest, a student group said in Tuesday's press in the first detailed account of the disturbances in the northwestern city ... FULL TEXT

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* MPs denounce intelligence ministry

TEHRAN, July 29 (AFP) - Iranian MPs condemned the intelligence ministry Thursday for its "unconstitutional" treatment of those arrested over the Tehran riots amid a tough propaganda campaign against pro-democracy activists. "The ministry's statements about the university protests and the events that followed are obviously unconstitutional and violate the rights of those arrested," current and former MPs said in a letter published Thursday ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran appoints two new clerics to powerful council

TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday appointed two new members to the Guardian Council, a powerful conservative body overseeing elections and legislation in the Islamic republic. Conservative ayatollahs Hassan Taheri-Khoramabadi and Reza Ostadi replaced political allies Abolqasem Khazali and Mohammad Emami-Kashani, state television reported. .. FULL TEXT

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* Reformist party begins campaign for parliamentary elections

TEHRAN, Aug 2 (AFP) - Iran's Islamic Labor Party (ILP) kicked off its campaign for next spring's elections on Monday, getting an early start in a bid to end the conservative majority in parliament. The reformist party, which strongly backs President Mohammad Khatami, opened campaign season by covering the streets of the capital with banners and holding a press conference to call for "maximum" voter mobilisation ... FULL TEXT

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* Scientists to watch eclipse in Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Some 100 international astronomers, including Americans, will attend a conference in Iran next week to observe the last total solar eclipse of the millennium. Astronomers from the United States, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, France and Japan will participate in the Aug. 8-12 conference, the Islamic Republic News Agency said Tuesday ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
July 26, 1999

* Revolutionary Guards threaten further press crackdown

TEHRAN, Aug 1 (AFP) - The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) vowed to take action against newspapers that insult the elite corps amid a mounting crackdown on the nation's moderate press, reports said Sunday. Brigadier General Rahim Safavi said the political turmoil created by last month's bloody riots in Tehran was a bid to weaken the Guards and hinted at even stricter controls on newspapers ... FULL TEXT

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* Two more reporters arrested

Teheran (dpa) - Two more Iranian reporters have been arrested, one of them a young woman from a former liberal daily and the other from a radical weekly, the daily Tehran Times reported Sunday. Camellia Entekhabi-Far, a 26-year-old journalist who used to work for the reformist daily Zan (Woman), was arrested late last month after she had returned from the United States, the daily said ... FULL TEXT

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* Norway sends ambassador to Iran after 4-year break

OSLO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Norway sent an ambassador back to Tehran on Monday following a four-year break, restoring full diplomatic ties after Iran toned down a religious death order against British author Salman Rushdie. ``We will do all we can to support the work of political reform in Iran,'' newly appointed ambassador Svein Aass told Norway's NTB news agency on his first day in his new post ... FULL TEXT

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* Soroush attacked, observers voice concern

August 2, TEHRAN (Tehran Times) -- Observers here voiced concern over the attack on an intellectual, Abdol-Karim Soroush on Thursday in Mashhad, eastern Iran. According to a report, appeared in Persian daily Neshat Soroush was attacked after addressing a meeting of supporters in a private home in Mashhad ... FULL TEXT

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* German businessman back in Iran jail on sex charge

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A German businessman, on bail after being charged with having illicit sexual relations with a Muslim woman, was returned to prison Sunday after officials said they feared he would flee Iran, Iran's state news agency IRNA said ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami again stresses detente policy

August 1, 1999, Teheran (dpa) - Iran 's moderate President Mohammad Khatami in a meeting Sunday with the new Swiss ambassador to Teheran stressed Iran 's intention to continue its detente policy in international affairs ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran gives U.S. cold shoulder

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rarely in the long estrangement between the United States and Iran has there been even a glimmer of hope for a more normal relationship. his second anniversary in office on Tuesday, not much has changed in U.S.-Iranian relations despite American eagerness for a fresh start. Protests on Tehran streets have dimmed prospects even more ... FULL TEXT

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