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* Registration closes for Iranian parliament
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* Iran Freedom Movement party defends itself
* Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes "internal enemies"
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* Yazdi's Iran Freedom Party in new
bid to enter parliament
* Moderate newspaper, Arya, banned for two weeks
* Intelligence chief says arrested Jews will be treated
fairly
* Intelligence chief calls for swift and fair end to Hofer's
case
* Basiji's killer sentenced to death
* Students see film of police raid on Tehran University
hostel
* Parliament approves outlines of amnesty law
* Khatami calls for rapid solution to murders of dissidents
* Lawyer rejects doubts over Nuri's registration
* Students demand reformist cleric's release
* Jailed Abdollah Nouri registered for general elections
* Khamenei calls for "healthy" legislative elections
* More than 300 candidates sign up for general elections
* Staff of banned Khordad newspaper bring out new title
* Iran Jewish MP lambasts "lack of information"
* Students rally in support of Abdollah Nouri
* Karbaschi meets Rafsanjani and returns to prison
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Friday
December 17, 1999
* Registration closes for Iranian parliament polls
TEHRAN, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Registration of candidates closed on Friday
for Iran's crucial parliamentary elections in February which will pit
reformists close to President Mohammad Khatami against conservative opponents.
``We had registered 4,842 persons, including about 260 women by Thursday
night. No final sign-up figures are available yet,'' an election official
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* Iran Freedom Movement party defends itself
TEHRAN, Dec 17 (AFP) - The opposition Iran Freedom Movement hit back
at conservatives after their leader, parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri,
accused it of trying to seize control of the universities with pro-American
forces. In an unprecedented attack, IFM, which so far has been tolerated
by the conservative-dominated regime, charged that "the conservative
monopolists" are responsible for "two decades of crisis, difficulties,
corruption and bankruptcy in the country." >>> FULL TEXT
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* Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes "internal enemies"
TEHRAN, Dec 17 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
condemned Friday "internal enemies of the people and the Islamic
revolution," in an apparent reference to imprisoned pro-reform editor
Abdollah Nuri and a liberal opposition group. "These naive enemies,
who may or may not be religious, are going down the wrong road as our
external enemies and foreign radio stations wish," Khamenei said
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Thursday
December 16, 1999
* Yazdi's Iran Freedom Party in new bid to enter parliament
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - A banned but tolerated Iranian opposition group
has registered 12 candidates for key general elections in February in a
new bid to enter parliament, officials said here Thursday. Former foreign
minister Ibrahim Yazdi, the leader of the Iran Freedom Movement, is heading
the progressive Islamic group's list for the elections, the officials said
on the penultimate day of registration for the key polls >>>
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* Moderate newspaper, Arya, banned for two weeks
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - Iran's conservative press court has banned the
moderate daily Arya for two weeks for "damaging public opinion"
following complaints by the security forces, press reports said Thursday.
Arya, which is close to Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami, was
also fined six million rials (2,000 dollars at the official exchange rate).
The management of Arya has 20 days to appeal against the verdict >>>
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* Intelligence chief says arrested Jews will be treated fairly
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel will
receive a fair and just trial, intelligence chief Ali Yunesi was quoted
Thursday as telling the parliamentary representative of Iran's Jewish community.
The Ettelaat daily said Yunesi had briefed Manuchehr Eliasi on the case
but gave no details >>> FULL
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* Intelligence chief calls for swift and fair end to Hofer's case
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - Iran's intelligence chief has called for a "fair
and rapid verdict" in the case of German businessman Helmut Hofer,
detained on a new charge of insulting a prison guard, a press report said
Thursday. "The case is under examination and we want a fair and rapid
verdict," the pro-government daily Iran quoted Intelligence Minister
Ali Yunesi as saying >>> FULL
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* Basiji's killer sentenced to death
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - A Tehran court sentenced to death Thursday the
killer of one of Iran's Islamic militiamen, known as basij, only days after
his murder, state radio reported. Morteza Amini-Mogadam was sentenced under
Iran's "eye for an eye" law after the family of Hadi Mohebi,
22, demanded his execution.>>> FULL
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* Students see film of police raid on Tehran University hostel
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - More than 1,000 students attended the premiere Tuesday
of a documentary on the storming of a university hostel that left one person
dead and 20 injured. Made by the students' Islamic Association, the one-hour
film showed the destruction wrought when security forces and conservative
vigilantes raided the Tehran University hostel after a student protest
on July 9 >>> FULL
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Wednesday
December 15, 1999
* Parliament approves outlines of amnesty law
TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Iranians living abroad, including opponents of
the current regime, will be able to return home under the terms of the
Islamic Republic's first ever general amnesty law which received initial
approval from parliament Wednesday. The bill successfully passed its first
reading, and parliament will now proceed to discuss it in detail >>>
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* Khatami calls for rapid solution to murders of dissidents
TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday
he wanted a "speedy solution" to multiple killings of Iranian
intellectuals and dissidents that shocked the country at the end of last
year and the beginning of this. "I have not had direct responsibility
for this weighty and complex case, but I hope we shall arrive at a speedy
solution," he told journalists as he left parliament after presenting
his budget >>> FULL
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* Lawyer rejects doubts over Abdollah Nuri's registration for polls
TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Jailed former vice president Abdollah Nuri's
registration as a candidate for key parliamentary elections in February
is "cut and dried," his lawyer said Wednesday dismissing doubts
raised over the key reformer's eligibility. "His registration is cut
and dried and we won't except any more excuses" for not accepting
it, lawyer Mohsen Rahami told AFP >>> FULL
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Tuesday
December 14, 1999
* Students demand reformist cleric's release
TEHRAN, Dec 13 (Reuters) - About 4,000 Iranian students held a campus
rally in Tehran on Monday to protest against the imprisonment of leading
reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri. ``Nouri must be released!'' chanted the
students, who carried portraits of Nouri and President Mohammad Khatami
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* Jailed Abdollah Nouri registered for general elections
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - Jailed Iranian former vice president Abdollah
Nuri was registered as a candidate for key parliamentary elections in February
Tuesday by his lawyer, giving fresh hope to his reformist supporters of
success in the polls. Lawyer Mohsen Rahami said officials raised no objection
to his client's registration despite the five-year jail sentence imposed
on Nuri by a hardline court last month for anti-Islamic propaganda in his
now banned daily Khordad ... FULL
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* Khamenei calls for "healthy" legislative elections
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
called for healthy legislative elections and demanded that organisers,
particularly government officials, demonstrate neutrality during the process,
official agency IRNA reported Tuesday. "Government organisations,
particularly ballot organisers must guard against all partiality,"
said the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic during a meeting with members
of the supervisory elections commission Monday ... FULL
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Monday
December 13, 1999
* More than 300 candidates sign up on first registration day for
general elections
TEHRAN, Dec 12 (AFP) - A total of 324 people, including seven women,
handed in their candidacies on the first registration day Saturday for
Iran's key parliamentary elections in February, the interior ministry announced
Sunday. Prospective candidates have until December 17 to hand in their
applications to stand to the interior ministry in Tehran or to one of 207
provincial and local government offices across Iran ... FULL
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* Staff of banned Khordad newspaper bring out new title
TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - The staff of Iran's reformist daily Khordad brought
out a new title, Fath (Conquest) Saturday, only two weeks after their previous
paper was banned and its chief, Abdollah Nuri, was jailed for five years.
The first issue of Fath, which like Khordad supports reformist President
Mohammad Khatami, carried a picture of a smiling Nuri, who was jailed by
the Special Court for Clergy for spreading "anti-Islamic propaganda"
in the pages of Khordad ... FULL
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* Iran Jewish MP lambasts "lack of information"
TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - The parliamentary representative of Iran's Jewish
community has deplored the lack of information over the case of 13 Jews
arrested in Iran for alleged spying for Israel, a press report said Saturday.
"The judiciary has not told us anything about their release or detention
and we do not know what stage their cases have arrived at," the moderate
Azad paper quoted Manuchehr Eliasi as saying ... FULL
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* Students rally in support of Abdollah Nouri
TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranian students of both sexes rallied
outside Tehran University mosque Monday in support of jailed reformist
Abdollah Nuri. The rally was called by the Office for Consolidation and
Unity (OCU), the main reformist student group, to protest against the jailing
of Nuri last month by the hardline Special Court for Clergy (SCC) ... FULL TEXT
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* Karbaschi meets Rafsanjani and returns to prison
TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - The former reformist mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, imprisoned for corruption, returned to Evin prison Sunday after
taking an authorised week of leave, the daily Asr-e-Azadeqan said Monday
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