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* U.N. investigator urges continued
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* Human rights improve in parts of Mideast
* U.S. State Department's human rights report
* Election test for reformists
* Voting picks up in landmark Iranian poll
* Different perspective: Rah-e Kargar
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* Iran exiles, Italy MPs denounce Khatami
visit
* Reformers finally get go-ahead
* Several injured in attack on reformist party HQ
* "At least" four armed attacks on party HQ
* Moderate party condemns attack
* Violence Ahead of Iran Elections
* New intelligence chief approved by parliament
* Khatami speech for Yunesi
* Three killed in protests in Iranian Kurdistan
* Threat to cancel Tehran's city council elections
* Leading Ireform candidate says disqualification illegal
* New pro-Khatami newspaper hits the streets of Iran
* Press court members expelled
* Four more arrests in dissident deaths
* Moderate candidates barred from Iran election
* Iran's reformers campaign for ``Islam of love''
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Friday
February 26, 1999
* U.N. investigator urges Iran to continue reforms
GENEVA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights investigator
has urged Iran's government to continue on the path to reform but warned
that opposition to change may be getting increasingly violent. Maurice
Copithorne, the U.N. Human Rights Commission's special representative on
Iran, said President Mohammad Khatami's reformist agenda had made progress
since his last report, published in October ... FULL
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* Human rights improve in parts of Mideast - U.S.
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Human rights improved last year in parts
of the Middle East, including Syria, Iran and the Palestinian territories,
the U.S. State Department said on Friday. The report also saw ``some improvements
in a few areas'' in Iran, even though that country's overall human rights
performance was rated ``poor.'' The Iranian government eased the licensing
for new publications, sparking an increase in reported circulation of print
media, according to the report. However, the report said, ``There was an
increase in the disappearances of prominent writers and dissident figures
during the latter part of the year, many of whom were found dead.'' ...
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* U.S. State Department's 1998 human rights report
Washingon DC, Feb 26, 1999 - Iran Country Report on Human Rights Practices
released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ... FULL
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* Election test for reformists
Tehran, Fbe 26, (BBC) - Iranians have finished voting in their first
local elections since the Islamic revolution 20 years ago, to choose the
powerful councils that run towns and cities. Turnout in Tehran was reported
to be large, particularly among young people, and authorities extended
polling by two hours both in the capital and many other parts of Iran
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* Voting picks up in landmark Iranian poll
TEHRAN, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Iranians voted on Friday in the country's
first local elections, part of ambitious political reforms fostered by
President Mohammad Khatami to challenge the centralised grip of the conservative
clerical establishment. Voter turnout, light in the morning of the Moslem
sabbath, picked up later in the day. Election officials said they expected
the trend to continue into the early evening ... FULL
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* Different perspective: Rah-e Kargar
The Revolutionaru Workers organization of Iran (Rah-e Kargar) has issued
a statement on the local elections in Iran ... FULL
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Thursday
February 25, 1999
* Iran exiles, Italy MPs denounce Khatami visit
ROME, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Italian parliamentarians and Iran's exiled
opposition said on Thursday it was a bitter irony that Iranian President
Mohammed Khatami's forthcoming visit to Italy would begin on International
Women's Day. ``It's a bit of a joke that Khatami is arriving on March 8,
International Women's Day,'' communist deputy Maria Celeste Nardini told
a news conference in Italy's lower house of parliament. ``The rights of
all Iranian citizens, but above all women, have been abused.'' ... FULL
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* Reformers finally get go-ahead to stand on eve of landmark poll
TEHRAN, Feb 25 (AFP) - Less than 24 hours before polls were due to open
for Iran's first ever municipal elections, a dozen leading reformist candidates
in the capital finally received the green light to stand from moderate
President Mohammed Khatami Thursday. In a last-minute statement carried
by the official news agency IRNA, Khatami overruled a disqualification
order issued against the candidates by the conservative head of the election
Supervision Council, Ali Mohavedi-Savoji ... FULL
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* Several injured in attack on reformist party HQ in Tehran: reports
TEHRAN, Feb 25 (AFP) - Gunmen opened fire on the Tehran headquarters
of Iran's leading moderate party, wounding up to three people amid a wave
of political violence ahead of Friday's landmark municipal elections. Several
bursts of automatic weapon fire riddled the northern Tehran offices of
the Executives of Construction Party on Wednesday, the Hamshahri newspaper
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* "At least" four armed attacks on moderate party HQ
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Men on motorcycles carried out at least four armed
attacks on the headquarters of the moderate Servants of Construction party
in Tehran last night ... IMAGE
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* Moderate party condemns attack
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - The moderate Servants of Construction party issues
a statement condemning the armed attack on their headquarters in Tehran
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Wednesday
February 24, 1999
* Violence ahead of Iran elections
February 24, TEHRAN, (AP) -- A gunman opened fire on a moderate party's
election headquarters Wednesday as reformers and hard-liners bickered over
candidates in Iran's first local elections in 20 years. Witnesses said
there were no casualties in the attack, in which a passenger on a motor
scooter sprayed bullets at the Servants of Construction offices in Tehran.
Dozens of volunteers were inside at the time. The gunman and driver escaped
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* New intelligence chief approved by parliament
TEHRAN, Feb 24 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly
approved the appointment of Ali Yunesi, a 43-year-old conservative cleric,
to head the scandal-tainted intelligence ministry. A total of 197 members
of the conservative-dominated parliament, the Majlis, voted in favor of
Yunesi following two hours of debate while nine opposed his nomination
and 18 abstained ... FULL
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* Khatami speech for Yunesi
Tehran (Iran daily) - Here is a report in Persian on President Khatami's
speech in the Majlis today in support of Yunesi's nomination as the intelligence
minister ... IMAGE
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* Three killed in protests in Iranian Kurdistan: Tehran Times
TEHRAN, Feb 24 (AFP) - Three people were killed on Monday during protests
in Sanandaj, the main city in Iranian Kurdistan, a newspaper said Wednesday,
as a Kurdish MP criticized the handling of the demonstrations. The English-language
Tehran Times did not provide any details on the deaths, but quoted a member
of parliament from the region as criticizing the handling of the protests
by the provincial authorities ... FULL
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Tuesday
February 23, 1999
* Threaten to cancel Tehran's city council elections
Tehran, feb. 23, irna -- the head of the central superintendence board
of council elections, ali mowahedi savoji said here tuesday night that
"if the interior ministry does not take appropriate measure to remove
the names of 12 disqualified candidates from the election list currently
at the polling posts in tehran, the board will announce the election process
in the megapolis null and void." ... FULL
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* Leading Iranian reform candidate says disqualification illegal
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - The leading reformer running in Tehran's landmark
municipal polls said Tuesday that his disqualification by the conservative-dominated
election Supervision Council was illegal. Both the interior ministry and
a conciliation committee have declared the removal from the ballot of 12
reform candidates led by Vice President Abdollah Nuri to be "illegal
and baseless," said Nuri, who is close to moderate President Mohammad
Khatami ... FULL
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* New pro-Khatami newspaper hits the streets of Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 20 (AFP) - A new newspaper hit the newsstands of Iran on
Saturday, the latest in a wave of moderate journals to appear since reformist
President Mohammad Khatami took power 18 months ago. Directeur Latif Safari
described his newspaper Neshat (Vitality) as "pluralist and independent"
and said it supported Khatami's efforts "to strengthen political openness
and the civil society." ... FULL
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* Press court members expelled
Tehran (Iran daily) - Five jury members of the press disciplinary court
have been expelled for objecting to the judge's actions ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Monday
February 22, 1999
* Four more arrests in dissident deaths
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have arrested four more suspects
in the deaths of five dissidents, a military prosecutor said today. The
prosecutor, Mohammad Niyazi, told Tehran radio that one of the suspects
was a businessman who fled to Turkey but was brought back with the help
of Turkish authorities ... FULL
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* Moderate candidates barred from Iran election
Tehran, Feb 22, (BBC) - The first nationwide local elections in Iran
have been thrown into confusion just days before the polls after a conservative-controlled
supervisory board barred several moderate candidates from standing. The
candidates include the former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri, the student
leader Ebrahim Asgharzadeh and an adviser to the president ... FULL
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* Iran's reformers campaign for ``Islam of love''
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami's reformist allies
kicked off their campaign for Iran's first nationwide local council elections
with demands for ``an Islam of love'' that would break the grip of the
conservative clerical establishment. Former Khatami interior minister Abdollah
Nouri, who heads the biggest pro-reform ticket, told a campaign rally on
Saturday that his coalition rejected conservatives' attempts to hold on
to power by distorting the meaning and application of Islam ... FULL
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