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* Constitutional body rejects law increasing its own powers
* Interior ministry rejects 400 candidates for MP elections
* Elite force says officer killed in attack: paper
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* Moderate party claims bugged by reformist
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* Paper says two more students condemned to die
* Iran conservatives launch platform for February elections
* Iran declares January 1 a holiday because of bug
* Yazdi wants to curb press
* Iran's supreme court upholds death sentence
* Kharrazi to visit Britain, Egypt, Ireland and Turkey:
paper
* Nouri seeks quashing of dissent conviction
* Conservative slams TV broadcast of Rafsanjani comments
* Iran frees jailed German businessman on bail
* Opposition criticises Russian intervention in Chechnya
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Wednesday
December 29, 1999
* Public hanging at dawn for man who killed Islamic militiaman
TEHRAN, Dec 29 (AFP) - The young man who murdered a member of Iran's
volunteer Islamic Basiji militia is to be hanged in public at dawn Sunday,
a newspaper reported. The Iran daily said Wednesday that Morteza Amini-Moghadam
would be hanged at Imam Hossein Square in the southeast of the capital
after being found guilty of the stabbing death of 22-year-old Basiji militiaman
Hadi Mohebi >>>
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* Constitutional body rejects law increasing its own powers
TEHRAN, Dec 29 (AFP) - An Iranian supervisory council on Wednesday rejected
parts of a law that would have given it increased powers to oversee February's
key parliamentary elections, state radio said. The 12-member Council of
Guardians said two articles in the legislation, approved by the conservative-
dominated parliament on Tuesday, were "against the constitution and
Islam," the radio said >>>
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* Interior ministry rejects 400 candidates for MP elections
TEHRAN, Dec 29 (AFP) - Iran's interior ministry has rejected some 400
candidates hoping to stand in February's key parliamentary elections, the
press reported here Wednesday. Pro-reform papers said leading reformist
Abdollah Nuri, who was jailed five years for spreading anti-Islamic propaganda
last month, would still be allowed to run. The report could not be immediately
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* Elite force says officer killed in attack: paper
TEHRAN, Dec 29 (AFP) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said a top
officer was killed in an attack by the outlawed armed opposition People's
Mujahedeen, a newspaper reported Wednesday. General Mohammad-Jafar Asadi,
deputy commander for Guards ground forces, told the Aftab-e-Emrouz paper
that Ali Saki was killed when a Mujahedeen fighter tried to throw a grenade
during an attack. He did not elaborate >>>
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* Group appeals on web for funds to carry out Rushdie death sentence
TEHRAN, Dec 28 (AFP) - A private Iranian group is to launch an appeal
on the internet for money to implement a religious death sentence on British
writer Salman Rushdie, the Kayhan newspaper reported Tuesday. The founder
of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious
decree, or fatwa, in 1989 condemning Rushdie to death for his novel "The
Satanic Verses," which he judged blasphemous against Islam >>> FULL
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Tuesday
December 28, 1999
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Monday
December 27, 1999
* Moderate Iranian party claims it was bugged by reformist newspaper
TEHRAN, Dec 27 (AFP) - A moderate Iranian political party is claiming
to have been bugged by a reformist newspaper which quoted controversial
remarks by one of its leading members, press reports said Monday. The Kargozaran-e-Sazandeghi
(Executives of Construction) party close to former president Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani pointed the finger at Said Hajarian, head of the Sobh-e Emruz
daily, the reports said >>>
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* Iran paper says two more students condemned to die over July riots
TEHRAN, Dec 25 (AFP) - Two more Iranian students have been sentenced
to death over July's bloody unrest, one of them because he showed international
media the blood-soaked shirt of a beaten colleague, a newspaper said Saturday.
The moderate Fath paper cited a student group saying Akbar Mohammadi had
been condemned to death for throwing petrol bombs during the riots >>> FULL
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* Iran conservatives launch platform for February elections
TEHRAN, Dec 25 (AFP) - Conservatives in Iran announced Saturday that
they had launched a joint electoral platform in the run up to key parliamentary
elections in February. "Our aim is to coordinate the positions of
the revolutionary political forces in order to defend constitutional rights
but mainly to try to solve the country's many economic problems,"
conservative MP Mohammad-Reza Bahonar said >>>
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* Iran declares January 1 a holiday because of bug
TEHRAN, Dec 27 (AFP) - January 1 will be a public holiday in Iran because
of possible problems arising from the millennium computer bug, state radio
said Monday, referring to a cabinet decision taken late Sunday. Interior
Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lari had already said at a press conference
Sunday that the authorities were considering cancelling all flights on
the night of December 31 as a precautionary measure >>>
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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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* Foreign Minister to visit Britain, Egypt, Ireland and Turkey: paper
TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - Iran's foreign minister will make a major tour
abroad next month to Britain, Egypt, Ireland and Turkey, the daily Iran
News reported on Thursday. Kamal Kharazi will kick off the tour January
17 with a stop in Turkey, said the paper, which is considered close to
the foreign ministry >>>
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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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* Conservative slams TV broadcast of Rafsanjani comments
TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - A conservative candidate for Iran's legislative
elections said Thursday the television broadcast of a news conference by
former prime minister Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, also a candidate, was illegal.
"Replying to questions ... is a right for each citizen but the broadcast
of a candidate's comments on television is illegal," said former labour
minister Ahmad Tavakoli in a letter addressed to the Council of Discernment,
a constitutional comittee, in extracts published by official agency IRNA
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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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