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* Iran local elections test reformists
* Action against deportations from Holland
* Overload of injustice
* Iran pardons 75 prisoners
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* Rahe Kargar's anniversary statement
* Conservative to lead Iranian intelligence
* Amir Entezam in danger - group
* Concern remains for Salman Rushdie
* Khatami ousts security chief
* Intelligence minister's resignation letter
* Radical reformers found new left-wing party
* Intelligence minister resigns - paper
* Liberals barred from council elections
* Reformist Iranian paper reappears after two week ban
* Iranian refugee groups occupy UN office
* Artists condemn attacks
* Changing role for the women of Islamic Iran
* Foruhar murders: Details
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Friday
February 12, 1999
* Jurists urge Iran to give ex-deputy PM a free trial
GENEVA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
said on Thursday its observer had been barred from the trial of a former
Iranian deputy prime minister and urged the authorities to ensure the proceedings
were fair. The Geneva-based ICJ, which promotes the rule of law, said
the trial of Abbas Amir-Entezam, a deputy prime minister just after Iran's
1979 Islamic revolution, is due to begin on February 16 ... FULL
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* Iran local elections test reformists
Feb. 12, 1999 (The Financial Times) - For millions of Iranians the 20th
anniversary of the Iranian revolution this week is a cause for celebration.
For many others, however, including President Mohammad Khatami and his
reformist supporters, the forces spawned by the Islamic revolution - creatures
of the underground alliance of wealthy merchants and Shia clergy - have
become one of the greatest threats to the reforms espoused by the president
and supported by more than 70 per cent of the electorate which swept him
to office in May 1997 ... FULL
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* Action against deportations from Holland
Feb 12, 1999, (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) - Join
the campaign against the Dutch government's inhuman treatment of Iranian
asylum seekers. Support the asylum seekers' demands that the Dutch government:
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* Overload of injustice
By Azar Nafisi
Feb 11, (Star-Tribune) - So far, everything seems normal. But, like
most things in Iran today, it is not. Upon closer inspection, there is
something disturbingly wrong with the accompanying picture: The ballerinas,
you see, have been airbrushed out. There is only an empty space, the floor,
the blank wall and the bar. Like so many other images of women in Iran,
the ballerinas have been censored ... FULL
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* Iran pardons 75 prisoners
February 12, 1999, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, pardoned 75 prisoners on Friday to mark the the 20th anniversary
of Iran's Islamic revolution, the official Islamic Republic News Agency
reported. Pardons marking religious and national events are common in
Muslim countries. In Iran, they generally are given to prisoners convicted
of minor offenses.
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Thursday
February 11, 1999
* Rahe Kargar's anniversary statement
Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rah-e Kargar) issues
statement on the 20th anniversary of the "1979 uprising" ...
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Wednesday
February 10, 1999
* Conservative to lead Iranian intelligence
President Khatami of Iran has nominated the chief military prosecutor,
Ali Yunesi, as the new intelligence minister following the resignation
of the minister on Tuesday over a scandal involving the killing of dissidents
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* Amir Entezam in danger - group
Washington DC, Feb 10, (Alliance for the Defense of Human Rights in
Iran) - The life of one of the most prominent political opponents of the
Islamic regime of Iran , Mr. Abbas Amir Entezam who had served as deputy
prime minister under the government of Mehdi Bazargan after the 1979 revolution
is in grave danger. He is the longest held political prisoner in Iran for
"crimes" in defense of human rights and for advocating democracy
in Iran ... FULL
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* Concern remains for Salman Rushdie
February 10, NEW YORK (AP) - Ten years ago Sunday, Salman Rushdie received
what he has called his ``unfunny Valentine.'' On Feb. 14, 1989, the Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini condemned ``The Satanic Verses'' as blasphemy, and called
for Rushdie's death. The author, who lives in London, was forced into hiding.
The novel's Japanese translator was murdered and the Italian and Norwegian
translators were attacked ... FULL
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Tuesday
February 9, 1999
* Khatami ousts security chief
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Moderate President Mohammad Khatami took a major
step Tuesday to extend his authority over Iran's powerful secret police,
after a string of dissident murders threw his conservative rivals on the
defensive. Tehran state television reported Khatami had officially accepted
the resignation of Intelligence Minister Qorbanali Dorri Najafabadi, responsible
for both internal security and foreign espionage ... FULL
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* Radical reformers found new left-wing party
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - Left-wing supporters of reformist Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami announced the formation of a new party Tuesday ahead of
the country's first ever local elections. The left-wing minority in Iran's
conservative-dominated parliament said they were forming the Islamic Labour
Party to encourage political participation by the working class ...
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Monday
February 8, 1999
* Intelligence minister resigns - paper
February 8, 1999 (Theran Times) - Information Minister Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
yesterday went to President's Office to submit his resignation to President
Seyed Mohammad Khatami, a reliable source said yesterday. The source, talking
to the TEHRAN TIMES on condition of anonymity, said the President has accepted
his resignation. Also yesterday, Yunesi was appointed as minister of information
by the President and he is now busy preparing his future agenda as country's
intelligence chief ... FULL
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* Islamic liberals barred from Iran's landmark council elections
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - Islamic liberals will be barred from running for
Iran's first ever municipal elections later this month, Vice-President
Hassan Habibi said Sunday. Habibi, a member of the arbitrating committee
set up to resolve a growing political row over barred candidates, said
members of the liberal Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI) cannot run in the
poll as the group is illegal ... FULL
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* Reformist Iranian paper reappears after two week ban
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (AFP) - A moderate paper run by the daughter of former
Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was back on the newsstands Monday
after a two week ban for defaming a senior policeman ... FULL
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