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* Iranian Jew held for spying is well, mother says
* Scandal rocks secret service
* Reformist press accuses MPs of preparing clampdown
* Iran revives case of missing diplomats,17 years on
* Jackson seeks Iran visit to press for Jews release
* Iran to hold crucial parliamentary elections in February
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Friday
July 9, 1999
* Iran ministry drops charges against newspaper
TEHRAN, July 8 (Reuters) - Iran's powerful intelligence ministry on
Thursday withdrew a complaint against a leading moderate newspaper, raising
hopes that the banned daily would be allowed to resume publication. ``The
intelligence ministry withdraws its complaint in line with its firm policy
of non-partisanship...and for the sake of maintaining calm, avoiding tension
and backing the government's policies on political development and legal
press freedom,'' it said in a statement carried by the official news agency
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* Leading Iranian dissident dies
July 8, (BBC) - A leading Iranian dissident, Ayatollah Mehdi Ha'eri-
Yazdi, has died in Tehran at the age of seventy-five. He was an acclaimed
Islamic philosopher, theolgian and author and taught in several foreign
academic institutions, including Oxford University. Mr Ha'eri-Yazdi was
a former student of the late Ayatollah Khomeini but was critical of the
country's clergy which came to power following the Islamic revolution in
1979.
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Thursday
July 8, 1999
* Salam daily banned as conservatives move to curb press
TEHRAN, July 7 (AFP) - Iran's state-run news agency announced the banning
of one of the country's leading reformist newspapers Wednesday just hours
after the country's conservative-dominated parliament approved fresh curbs
on the press. The Persian daily Salam, which is close to the reformist
government of President Mohammad Khatami, was banned on a "verbal
verdict of judicial authorities," the IRNA news agency quoted a "reliable
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* Iranian Jew held for spying is well, mother says
TEHRAN, July 7 (Reuters) - The mother of an Iranian Jew accused of spying
for Israel said the authorities were treating her son well and he was receiving
kosher food in detention, Tehran newspapers reported on Wednesday. The
report carried the first details released in Iran on the arrest of 13 Iranian
Jews earlier this year on spying charges ... FULL
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Wednesday
July 7, 1999
* Scandal rocks secret service
TEHRAN, July 6 (Reuters) - The case has all the elements of a classic
spy thriller -- serial murders, a mysterious suicide in the upper ranks
of the intelligence service and a missing body. Iran's widening security
scandal has sent government officials, leading politicians and senior clerics
scurrying for cover and raised doubts about the future of the country's
feared secret service ... FULL
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* Reformist press accuses MPs of preparing clampdown
TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Iran's reformist press expressed "serious
concern" Tuesday as the country's conservative-dominated parliament
prepared to debate legislation tightening up controls on the media. Editors
from a dozen newspapers published a joint statement accusing the bill's
promoters of paving the way for "restrictions on the press, practically
no job security for the country's journalists and preliminary steps for
closure of various press institutions." ... FULL
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* Iran revives case of missing diplomats,17 years on
TEHRAN, July 6 (Reuters) - Iran has revived the case of its four misssing
diplomats, kidnapped in 1982 in Lebanon, in an apparent attempt to deflect
increasing Western pressure on the issue of 13 Iranian Jews charged with
spying for Israel. The four diplomats were reportedly abducted by pro-Israeli
Christian militia at a checkpoint in the northern outskirts of Beirut when
Israeli forces surrounded the Lebanese capital ... FULL
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* Jackson seeks Iran visit to press for Jews release
July 6, DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson hopes
to visit Iran to appeal to officials for the release of 13 Iranian Jews
arrested on charges of spying for Israel, the London-based daily newspaper
al-Hayat said Tuesday. The Arabic-language paper said Jackson was ``awaiting
an Iranian response to visiting Tehran as part of his efforts'' to gain
the release of the 13, arrested several months ago ... FULL
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Tuesday
july 6, 1999
* Iran to hold crucial parliamentary elections in February
TEHRAN, July 4 (AFP) - Iran announced Sunday that the first round of
parliamentary elections, crucial for the future of moderate President Mohammad
Khatami's reform agenda, will be held on February 18. The Islamic republic's
270-member assembly, or Majlis, is elected every four years by universal
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