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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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* U.S.-funded radio denies detained Iranian journalist w
orked for it
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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