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* Municipal election campaign opens in Iran
* Forty-five arrested in attack on Hadi Khamenei
* Death penalty for drug traffickers "ineffective"
* Unrest in northeast Iranian city
* New intelligence chief faces vote of confidence
* Campaigning to start for first municipal elections
* Action against deportations from Germany
* Amir-Entezam trial opens in his absence
* Iran official says Israel behind dissident deaths
* Iran: giving voice to freedom
* Amir-Entezam to be put on trial Tuesday
* Brother of supreme leader assaulted
* Tehran wants "drastic reform"
* More may be chartged over dissident murders
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Friday
February 19, 1999
* Twenty-seven new publications get permits
Tehran, (Iran daily) - The press supervision board has issued permits
for 27 new publications, including four newspaper and 13 monthly magazines
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Thursday
February 18, 1999
* Municipal election campaign opens in Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Posters and photos of candidates were plastered
all over buildings, bridges and telephone poles of Tehran as the campaign
for the February 26 municipal elections kicked off officially Thursday.
The same pictures were splashed over newspapers and magazines, and the
windows and bumpers of taxis, as the candidates prepare for just a week
of campaigning -- all electoral activity is banned the day before the polls.
The municipal elections, the first since the 1979 Islamic revolution which
overthrew the shah, are being watched with intense interest ... FULL TEXT
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* Forty-five arrested in attack on Hadi Khamenei
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Forty-five people in Iran have been arrested
in connection with last week's attack on Hadi Khamenei, brother of supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday.
Hadi Khamenei, an adviser to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, was
beaten up by fundamentalist activists at the Mohammadiyeh mosque in the
holy city of Qom last Thursday ... FULL
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* Death penalty for Iran's drug traffickers ineffective: official
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami's representative to
the Iranian narcotics control authority said that capital punishment for
drug traffickers has been ineffective, the official news agency IRNA said
Thursday. "In many instances, the relatives of drug convicts have
taken over the task of trafficking after the execution of their relatives,"
Mahmud Alizadeh Tabatabai said ... FULL
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* Unrest in northeast Iranian city
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Riot police have clashed with groups of youths
in Jajarm in northeastern Iran over a decision to merge the town with another
nearby locality, newspapers here reported Thursday. The Tehran press reports,
which were confirmed by a number of residents of Jajarm, said there had
been "isolated clashes" in neighborhoods in the town of some
15,000 people over the past two days ... FULL
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Wednesday
February 17, 1999
* New Iranian intelligence chief faces vote of confidence
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - The new head of Iran's scandal-tainted intelligence
ministry was presented to parliament Wednesday for a vote of confidence,
the official news agency IRNA reported. Ali Yunesi was tapped to take over
as head of the powerful ministry from Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, who resigned
this month following the revelation that "rogue" intelligence
agents had been involved in the murders of several dissidents and writers
last year ... FULL
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* Campaigning to start for first municipal elections in Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Candidates can begin campaigning Thursday for
next week's municipal elections, the first in Iran since the 1979 Islamic
revolution and a vital test for democratic reforms, the interior ministry
said Wednesday. The final list of candidates approved by the government's
selection committee, anticipated for a week, is due to be displayed in
precints Thursday following controversy over the banning of some candidates
close to reformist President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Action against deportations from Germany
17 Feb 1999, (International Federation of Iranian Refugees, IFIR) -
The International Federation of Iranian Refugees Germany Branch has summoned
a three week sit-in as of February 1 in Bokum to protest the German government's
plan to deport thousands back to the brutal Islamic Republic of Iran. After
years of uncertainty and fear, many have been arrested and detained to
await their forcible return to persecution. They have reached the end of
the line and are fighting for their lives ... FULL
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Tuesday
February 16, 1999
* Amir-Entezam trial opens in his absence
TEHRAN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Tuesday began hearing
defamation charges against a former deputy prime minister in his absence
despite protests from his lawyers, journalists said. The lawyers said they
would seek a new trial for Abbas Amir-Entezam. The defence attorneys protested
that Amir-Entezam had been forced to remain in jail and not allowed to
attend the court session, they added ... FULL
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* Iran: giving voice to freedom
February 22, 1999 (Newsweek) - His father said he was just going out
to buy some groceries for dinner. Mom was away for the evening visiting
friends. Sohrab, 13, went back to reading his book as the light faded on
the north Tehran high-rise apartment blocks. But now it was dark, and Papa
wasn't back. Sohrab called his older brother. He called his mother at her
friends' place. And still his papa hadn't come back, and couldn't be found...
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Monday
February 15, 1999
* Amir-Entezam to be put on trial Tuesday
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - A minister in Iran's first post-revolutionary
government is to go on trial here Tuesday charged with slander, his wife
told AFP. Abbas Amir-Entezam, regarded as a liberal, was detained last
September after making critical statements about the former head of the
Evin prison near Tehran, Assadollah Ladjevardi, who was assassinated in
August ... FULL
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* Brother of supreme leader assaulted
TEHRAN, Feb 13 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called Saturday
for an investigation into the assault of one of his advisers, the brother
of supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid an escalation
of political violence in the Islamic republic ... FULL
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* Tehran wants "drastic reform" following dissident murders
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - Iran's reformist government launched a campaign
for a thorough overhaul of the secretive intelligence services Monday following
last month's shock admission that "rogue" agents were involved
in the murder of dissidents. The intelligence ministry, which is "responsible
to ensure the security of citizens," had "become the home to
a coterie of murderers," said an editorial in the government newspaper
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* Iran may charge more people over dissident murders
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities may charge more people
with involvement in killings of dissidents blamed partly on rogue secret
agents, newspapers reported on Monday. A presidential commission investigating
the murders of two dissidents and two liberal writers late last year reported
to President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday, the daily Iran said ... FULL
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