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* Abbas Amir Entezam's wife released
* Tehran police chief sacked over student raid
* Iran paper calls for live TV debates
* Abdi acquitted of slander
* Iran culture minister defends dancing
* Iran Jewish deputy urges speedy trial for Jews
* First women-only police station opened in Iran
* Khatami to name names in attack on student hostel
* MPs reject screen-candidates bill
* Court releases reformist editor on bail
* Reformist government seeks political parties
* Leftists launch first real political party
* More student unrest leaders detained in Tehran
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Friday
August 27, 1999
* Iran will respect legal rights of accused spies
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran will respect the legal rights
of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel and the United States,
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Thursday
August 26, 1999
* New police chief appointed
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (AFP) - The head of Iran's police force, General Hedayat
Lotfian, officially appointed Wednesday a replacement for the commander
of Tehran's metropolitan police force, sacked for his role in last month's
bloody riots. General Mohsen Ansari, 50, until now deputy chief of the
national police force, took over from General Farhad Nazari, who was slated
for "incompetence" in handling the unrest ... FULL
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* Cleric: Rushdie wasn't to be killed
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
did not really intend to have Salman Rushdie killed when he condemned the
British author to death for blaspheming Islam, a moderate Iranian cleric
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* Abbas Amir Entezam's wife released
August 26, (Neshat) -- The spouse of Abbas Amir Entezam, Elaheh Amir
Entezam, who had been detained after the July events [the student uprising],
was released on Monday. Elaheh Amir Entezam stated after her release that
her request to meet with her husband was met and she was able to visit
with him while in detention ... FULL
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Wednesday
August 25, 1999
* Tehran police chief sacked over student raid
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Iran has sacked Tehran's police chief, blamed
for a police attack on student dormitories that provoked some of the worst
unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution. State television said Brigadier-General
Mohsen Ansari was introduced at a ceremony on Wednesday as the new head
of the capital's police, replacing Brigadier-General Farhad Nazari ...
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* Iran paper calls for live TV debates before elections
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper on Wednesday urged state
television to broadcast live debates between leading scholars to help voters
make better choices in next spring's key parliamentary elections ... FULL TEXT
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* Abdi acquitted of slander
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A prominent Iranian journalist was
acquitted Sunday of slander charges, the official Islamic Republic News
Agency reported. Abbas Abdi, who had been accused of insulting hard-liners
opposed to talks with the United States, was acquitted by a court in the
holy city of Qom, 50 miles southwest of Tehran, the agency reported ...
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* Iran culture minister defends dancing, banned for 20 years
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (AFP) - Iran's culture minister said dancing, banned
here since the 1979 Islamic revolution, was one of mankind's most elevated
arts and should not necessarily be taboo, the official IRNA news agency
said Sunday ... FULL
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Tuesday
August 24, 1999
* Iran Jewish deputy urges speedy trial for Jews
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A Jewish member of Iran's parliament has
called on authorities to speed up the trial of 13 Jews charged with spying
for Israel, a newspaper said on Sunday ... FULL
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* First women-only police station opened in Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 23 (AFP) - Iran 's first women-only police station opened
Sunday in the holy city of Mashhad in the north east of the country, the
press reported. The papers did not say how many women had been taken on
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Monday
August 9, 1999
* Reformist government seeks political parties
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's interior minister Sunday called for the formation
of political parties in the Islamic republic, a move seen in line with
President Mohammad Khatami's vision of an Islamic ``civil society'' in
Iran. ``Political development is a fundamental aspect of our system. There's
is no denying,'' Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari said. ''We must
find a strategy to best achieve this goal, given the new atmosphere created
and emphasis in the constitution on the need for parties and people's participation
in the political process.'' ... FULL
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* Leftists launch first real political party
August 2, 1999, (Iran Weekly Press Digest) -- Iranian leftists proclaimed
Monday that they will launch the first real political party in Iran's history.
The Islamic Labour Party (ILP) will be the first political party which
will be formed in Iran with the initiative of the Labour House and labour
syndicates, Labour House Secretary General and main founder of the ILP,
Ali-Reza Mahjub, told reporters in Tehran ... FULL
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* More student unrest leaders detained in Tehran
Tehran (dpa) - More leaders of last month's student unrest in Teheran
have been arrested and detained, the daily Neshat reported Sunday. Abolfazl
Passebani, a student leader from the Economic School of Tehran University,
was brought to the notorious Evin prison after being heard by the Islamic
Revolution Court (IRC), Neshat reported ... FULL
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* Student group issues statement on arrests
August 7, 1999, (Hamshahri , BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- Following
the publication of reports about the arrest of a number of students in
Tehran and provincial cities who are either members of or are affiliated
to the student organization the Office for Fostering Unity, the organization
has issued a statement saying that the way the arrests were made and the
interrogations carried out does not reveal a serious determination to confront
people who promote violence ... FULL
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