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* Clerics boycott U.S. meeting in protest
* Janati accuses Washington of serial killings in Iran
* Navy chief: US forces in Gulf threaten Iran
* Pakistan military ruler to visit Bahrain, Iran
* Iran said to reassure Afghan opposition of support
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* Iran clergy challenge supreme leader
on Nouri
* Rights group urges release of Iranian reformer
* Amir-Entezas returned to prison
* Iran-Contra files seized in Israel
* Chechen war could undermine Russia's position in Islamic
world: OIC
* Special courts for the clergy: legitimate?
* Iranian cleric Nouri defies appeal calls
* Opposition figure attacked, students clash
* Iran says US must end unilateral sanctions
* Iran says relations with Britain entering "new era"
* Khatami to visit China in 2000
* Iran records more than 200 AIDS-related deaths: minister
* Khatami in dilemma over dissident jailing
* Reformers condemn and hardliners welcome jailing of Nuri
* Parliament to reopen probe on murdered intellectuals
* Iran says Russia accepts Moslem talks on Chechnya
* Nateq-Nouri again rules out dialogue with the United States
* Court Silences Iran Reformist With Jail Term
* Khatami defends jailed reformist Abdollah Nouri
* Pro-reform press slams jail sentence on leading reformist
* Culture minister deplores Nuri sentence
* Neshat editor gets three years in prison: sources
* Conservative papers get lenient court rulings
* MPs propose amnesty to include regime's opponents
* Definitive report on Iran's July riots out soon: radio
* Iran not able to grant US request for consular presence:
Kharazi * Iran spared criticism at Gulf summit for
first time
* More than 100 foreigners arrested at
Tehran residence
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Friday
December 3, 1999
* Clerics boycott U.S. meeting in protest
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A delegation of Iranian clerics has withdrawn from
a seminar in Washington in protest at their treatment by U.S. immigration
authorities, Iranian officials and conference organizers said Friday.
The scholars from the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom were to take part
in a seminar on Islam and secularism -- part of the people-to-people exchanges
encouraged by both U.S. and Iranian officials as a way to warm long-strained
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* Janati accuses Washington of serial killings in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - Conservative Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati
accused the United States Friday of being behind a series of murders of
intellectuals and opposition politicians in Iran a year ago ... FULL TEXT
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* Navy chief: US forces in Gulf threaten Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - US forces stationed in the Gulf are a threat and
a challenge to Iran, the head of the Iranian navy, Rear-Admiral Abbas Mohtaj,
said Friday. "The unjustified presence of American forces in the
region only increase tension and insecurity", he said, speaking at
the Friday prayer in Tehran on Iran's Navy Day ... FULL
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* Pakistan military ruler to visit Bahrain, Iran
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Pakistani military ruler General Pervez
Musharraf will visit Bahrain and Iran next week in his third trip to fellow
Islamic states after seizing power in October, Foreign Ministry sources
said on Friday. They said Musharraf would leave for Bahrain on December
8 and would go on to Tehran the same evening after talks with Bahraini
Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa ... FULL
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* Iran said to reassure Afghan opposition of support
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Iran promised on Thursday to continue diplomatic
support for the Afghan opposition even though it has abandoned its trade
blockade on the ruling Taleban, an opposition spokesman said. ``They clarified
their stance, reassuring us that Iran still recognises us as the legitimate
government,'' spokesman Dr Abdullah told Reuters by satellite telephone
from opposition-held northeast Afghanistan. ``Its position has not changed
since the reopening of its border with the Taleban.'' ... FULL
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Thursday
December 2, 1999
* Iran clergy challenge supreme leader on Nouri
TEHRAN, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A group of reform-minded Iranian clergy challenged
the country's supreme ruler regarding the recent jailing of a leading reformist
politician, in a statement published on Thursday. ``The sentence of (reformist
cleric Abdollah) Nouri was issued by a court which...everybody knows to
be in open legal conflict with the constitution,'' said a statement issued
by the League of Teachers at the religious Qom Seminaries and which was
published in newspapers ... FULL
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* Rights group urges release of Iranian reformer
DUBAI, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A U.S.-based human rights group urged Iran's
spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to quash the conviction of a leading
reformist politician, jailed for five years on charges of dissidence ...
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* Amir-Entezas returned to prison
\TEHRAN, Dec 2 (AFP) - A liberal Iranian opposition figure, Abbas Amir-Entezam,
who was released in October after spending most of the past two decades
in jail, has been returned to prison, opposition sources said Thursday
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* Iran-Contra files seized in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) - Documents and tapes linked to the Iran-Contra affair
have been seized from the office of an Israeli newspaper publisher and
one-time arms dealer, a lawyer in the case said Thursday ... FULL
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* Chechen war could undermine Russia's position in Islamic world:
OIC
TEHRAN, Dec 2 (AFP) - Russian relations with Islamic countries could
be undermined by the continuing war in Chechnya, the head of the Organisation
of the Islamic Conference (OIC) warned here Thursday ... FULL
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Wednesday
December 1, 1999
* Special courts for the clergy: legitimate?
December 1, 999: Commentary by Sadeq Saba of the BBC Persian Service
on the trial of Abdollah Nouri and the special clerical court which sentenced
to fice years in prison (RealAudio) ... LISTEN
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* Iranian cleric Nouri defies appeal calls
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri, locked up
in Iran's most notorious prison for religious and political dissent, has
rejected all calls to appeal against his landmark conviction. Nouri's lawyer
Mohsen Rohami said his client, a 50-year-old Shi'ite Moslem cleric, remained
defiant behind bars, rejecting proposals from political and religious allies
that he fight the verdict of the hardline Special Court for Clergy....
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* Opposition figure attacked, students clash
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) - Iranian liberal opposition figure Habibollah Peyman
was assaulted by stone-throwing protestors in the town of Semnan, from
which he sustained head injuries, a top opposition official said Wednesday
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* Iran says US must end unilateral sanctions
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday called on the United States
to lift its unilateral sanctions against the Islamic republic and reiterated
Washington's stance was "contradictory." "Before there can
be any change in relations Washington must demonstrate it has the political
will to take concrete steps and break down the wall of mistrust that separates
our two countries," Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran says relations with Britain entering "new era"
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) - Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that Tehran's
relations with Britain, troubled in the past over the death sentence proclaimed
against British author Salman Rushdie, were entering a "new era."
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* Khatami to visit China in 2000
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will visit
China in 2000, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran records more than 200 AIDS-related deaths: minister
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) - Iran has recorded a total of 203 AIDS-related
deaths since the disease first appeared in the country 12 years ago, Health
Minister Mohammad Farhadi said Wednesday ... FULL
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Tuesday
November 30, 1999
* Khatami in dilemma over dissident jailing
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami finds himself
caught between the rule of law he has insisted on implementing here and
calls to intervene in the jailing of the nation's leading reformist. Since
a hardline religious court slapped former interior minister Abdollah Nuri
with a five-year prison term Saturday, and closed his popular daily paper,
Khatami's pro-reform backers have called for the verdict to be overturned
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* Reformers condemn and hardliners welcome jailing of Nuri
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - The reformist faction of Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami on Tuesday denounced the five-year jail sentence handed down to
a top reformer and Khatami ally for dissent while hardliners here hailed
the ruling. The Association of Combattant Clerics (ACC) said the jailing
of Abdollah Nuri on Saturday and the closure of his popular Khordad newspaper
by a conservative court was an unfair decision motivated by partisan politics
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* Parliament to reopen probe on murdered intellectuals
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament is to continue its investigation
into a series of murders of intellectuals and opposition figures shortly,
an MP said Tuesday, contradicting a statement by a fellow deputy who said
the inquiry was being abandoned. "The Commission of inquiry will resume
its work next week," said conservative MP and commission member Ali
Movahedi-Savoji ... FULL
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* Iran says Russia accepts Moslem talks on Chechnya
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday that Russia had agreed
to a proposed visit by an Iranian-led Moslem delegation to Moscow for talks
on the crisis in Chechnya. The official IRNA news agency quoted Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov as telling his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi
by telephone that the Russian cabinet had approved the visit ... FULL
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* Nateq-Nouri again rules out dialogue with the United States
ROME, Nov 30 (AFP) - Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker reiterated
Tehran's opposition to re-opening dialogue with the United States in an
interview in an Italian newspaper Tuesday. "The actions of the government
and the US Congress go against dialogue," Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri told
La Stampa daily, stressing that Tehran could not accept Washington's continued
hostility towards the Islamic republic.... FULL
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Monday
November 29, 1999
* Court Silences Iran Reformist With Jail Term
By JOHN F. BURNS
The New York Times
December 28, 1999
Iran's most powerful religious court Saturday imposed a five-year jail
term and a five-year banishment from political activity on a Muslim cleric,
Abdullah Nouri, who is a close ally of Iran's reformist president and has
won wide popular support with demands for an end to authoritarian rule
by the religious hierarchy...
Nouri himself maintained a scornful attitude toward the court and a
seeming indifference to his own fate, which characterized his defiant speeches
at his trial before the Special Court for the Clergy this month. This week,
he told reporters he would not appeal the court's sentence and predicted
that the trial would only accelerate demands for sweeping changes in Iran's
political system that would take power from the religious authorities and
bestow it, under a democratic system, on Iran's 70 million people.
"It might take them a long time to learn this lesson, or it might
take them a short time," Nouri said, referring to the ruling clerics.
"What is clear, and beyond doubt, is that the case we have put before
the court will have an effect, on society and the state. What we know for
certain is that there will be change." ... FULL
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* Khatami defends jailed reformist Abdollah Nouri
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday sprang to
the defence of his close ally Abdollah Nuri, Iran's leading reformer who
was sentenced to five years in prison for religious and political dissent
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* Iran's pro-reform press slams jail sentence on leading reformist
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Iran's moderate press on Sunday unanimously slammed
a five-year jail sentence on former interior minister and leading reformist
Abdollah Nuri, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL TEXT
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* Culture minister deplores Nuri sentence
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iran's moderate culture minister Monday deplored
the conviction of leading reformist Abdollah Nuri by a conservative clerical
court, saying like Nuri he contested the tribunal's competence, the state
news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
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* Neshat editor gets three years in prison: sources|
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (AFP) - Iranian pro-reform journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
has been given a three-year prison term on anti-Islamic charges, judicial
sources said on Saturday ... FULL
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* Conservative papers get lenient court rulings
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (Reuters) - An Iranian court, which has closed several
reformist publications, on Monday handed down lenient rulings against two
conservative newspapers, effectively letting off both of their publishers
with warnings ... FULL
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* MPs propose amnesty to include regime's opponents
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iranians living abroad, including opponents of
the clerical regime, could be granted amnesty for the first time since
the 1979 Islamic revolution under a new draft bill, papers said here Monday
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* Definitive report on Iran's July riots out soon: radio
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iran's military justice system will make public
in the next few days a definitive report on last July's riots in Iran,
state radio said Monday ... FULL
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* Iran not able to grant US request for consular presence: Kharazi
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Iran is not able to grant a US request to open
a consular office in Tehran, foreign minister Kamal Kharazi said Sunday.
"The situation in both countries is totally different and we are not
able to grant the request," said Kharazi at a press conference with
his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov, who is visiting Tehran ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran spared criticism at Gulf summit for first time
RIYADH, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iran was spared criticism at a summit of the
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Monday for the first time since the six-nation
grouping was set up in 1981 ... FULL
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* More than 100 foreigners arrested at Tehran residence
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - More than one hundred foreigners, including women
from various European and South American countries, were arrested during
a dance evening in a residential suburb of Tehran, the government newspaper
Iran reported Monday ... FULL
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