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* Iran's supreme court upholds death
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* Nouri seeks quashing of dissent conviction
* Iran frees jailed German businessman on bail
* Opposition criticises Russian intervention in Chechnya
* Khatami's brother to start paper
* Iran to release German businessman on bail-paper
* Rafsanjani says that restrictions on Montazeri are
to be eased
* Rafsanjani backs amnesty for Karbaschi
* Defiant Iran cleric challenges leader from jail
* 6,800 register to run in Iran parliament elections
* Parliament gives judiciary more power in reformist setback
* Registration closes for Iranian parliament polls
* Iran Freedom Movement party defends itself
* Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes "internal enemies"
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Friday
December 24, 1999
* Yazdi wants to curb press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The government should curb the press before its
``unlimited'' freedom had serious consequences, a leading hard-line cleric
in Iran said Friday. ``Stop this trend of insults. We have to do something
to stop it, not just talk about stopping it,'' Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi
told worshippers at the traditional Friday prayers sermon at Tehran University
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Thursday
December 23, 1999
* Iran's supreme court upholds death sentence for militiaman's killer
TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - Iran's supreme court has upheld the death sentence
imposed on a young man found guilty of the stabbing death of a volunteer
Islamic Basiji militiaman, newspapers reported Thursday. The pro-government
Iran daily said the court upheld the sentence on Morteza Amini-Moghadem,
who was convicted of ambushing 22-year-old Hadi Mohebi and knifing him
to death in his father's shop >>>
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* Nouri seeks quashing of dissent conviction
TEHRAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Leading Iranian reformer Abdollah Nouri has
demanded the quashing of a five-year jail sentence passed on him by a clerical
court on dissent charges, newspapers reported on Thursday. Nouri, a popular
Shi'ite Moslem cleric close to President Mohammad Khatami, made the request
in a letter to Prosecutor General Ayatollah Morteza Moqtadaei >>>
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* Iran frees jailed German businessman on bail
TEHRAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A German businessman once held on death row
in Iran for illicit sex with a Moslem woman left prison in Tehran on Thursday
after being released on bail pending a new trial, security officials said.
The officials told journalists assembled outside the high-security Evin
prison late in the day that Hofer was in an ambulance that had left the
complex followed by a German embassy vehicle >>>
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* Iranian opposition criticises Russian intervention in Chechnya
TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - The tolerated opposition Iran Freedom Movement
(IFM) on Thursday denounced the Russian army's intervention in Chechnya
and asked the United Nations to halt the shedding of Muslim Chechen blood.
"We consider that the Russian army's offensive against the innocent
people of Chechnya is immoral, against human values, human rights and the
UN charter," IFM secretary general Ibrahim Yazdi wrote in a letter
to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan >>>
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Wednesday
December 22, 1999
* Khatami's brother to start paper
TEHRAN, Dec 22 (Asr-e Azadegan) - A new pro-Khatami newspaper will hit
the newsstands on Saturday. "Mosharekat" (Cooperation) will be
headed by the president's brother, Mohammad Reza Khatami >>>
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* Iran to release German businessman on bail-paper
TEHRAN, Dec 22 (Reuters) - An Iranian court has agreed to release on
bail a German businessman who had earlier been held on death row for engaging
in illicit sex with a Moslem woman, a state-run newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Helmut Hofer, 58, was detained in late 1997 on charges of adultery with
an Iranian woman and later convicted >>>
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Tuesday
December 21, 1999
* Rafsanjani says that restrictions on Ayatollah Montazeri are to
be eased
TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Iran has decided to progressively lift restrictive
measures against leading dissident Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, former
Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Tuesday. "The Supreme
Security Council has approved the lifting of restrictions against Ayatollah
Montazeri," Rafsanjani told a press conference in Tehran >>> FULL TEXT
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* Rafsanjani backs amnesty for former mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi
TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
on Tuesday backed the possibility of a pardon for former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, who is in prison on corruption charges. "There is a possibility
for an amnesty and I would support it," he told a press conference
in the Iranian capital, adding that he had met the former mayor on two
occasions last week >>>
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Monday
December 20, 1999
* Defiant Iran cleric challenges leader from jail
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (Reuters)- Jailed Iranian reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri
issued a new challenge to Iran's supreme clerical leader in an open letter
written in his prison cell and published by newspapers on Monday. ``What
I have published...said in court and what I have written here are only
a small part of the righteous demands of the people,'' Nouri, jailed on
dissent charges by a hardline court, said in the letter addressed to the
prosecutor >>>
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* 6,800 register to run in Iran parliament elections
TEHRAN, Dec 18 (Reuters) - About 6,800 Iranians have signed up to run
in crucial parliamentary polls in February, which will pit reformists close
to President Mohammad Khatami against conservative opponents, election
officials said on Saturday. It is the largest number of entrants in an
election in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, but the actual number
contending for the parliament's 290 seats in the February 18 vote could
be much smaller after a two-stage screening >>>
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* Parliament gives judiciary more power in reformist setback
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-led parliament on Monday
handed the chief justice sweeping new powers and administrative and financial
freedoms, sources said, in the latest setback to the reform agenda of President
Mohammad Khatami. They said parliament on Sunday and Monday passed a series
of measures giving Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi licence to annul verdicts
or request new trials if he found court decisions went against sharia or
Islamic law >>>
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