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* Iran committed to reform: minister
* `Salam' closure illegal, editor says
* Journalists protest at colleague's arrest
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* Iran's pro-reform press warns crackdown
* Students: crackdown continues
* President Clinton on unrest in Iran
* Khatami turns on hardline critics
* Khatami Warns Iran Hard-Liners
* Sobh-e Emrooz editor arrested
* Students accuse conservatives of staging riots
* Iran should release non-violent protesters
* Revolutionary Guards denounce Khatami
* 5 Iranian Pressmen Arrested for Role in Unrest
* Who is he?
* Iran students demand release of 1,400 classmates
* Iran releases 750 protesters
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Friday
July 23, 1999
* Student anger in Iran
Friday, July 23, 1999 (BBC) -- Pro-democracy student leaders in Iran
have accused the security forces of beating and torturing members who were
arrested during last week's protests. They have also accused the forces
of maintaining the wave of arrests in the capital Tehran ... FULL
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* Rafsanjani says Iran strong after unrest
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Islamic system emerged from recent unrest
as strong and stable as ever, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
said Friday. But he warned that the unrest, among the worst since the
1979 Islamic revolution, could scare away foreign investors ... FULL
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* Students say others missing
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- An Iranian pro-democracy student
group said today that some students were still missing and believed held
by security forces, despite officials' claims the crackdown against protesters
had ended. The Council of Student Protesters, which speaks for pro-democracy
demonstrators who earlier this month staged six days of protests, said
in a statement that ``a wave of arrests'' had begun after the demonstrations
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* Iran committed to reform: minister
TEHRAN, July 22 (AFP) - Iran 's interior minister insisted Thursday
the government would carry out President Mohammad Khatami's reform programme,
in a ringing defence of pro-democracy protesters who took to the streets
here last week ... FULL
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* `Salam' closure illegal, editor says
July 22, (Hamshahri - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) - At a meeting with
the staff of the daily `Salam', Hojjat ol-Eslam val-Moslemin Musavi-Kho'iniha,
the managing-editor of `Salam', spoke about the closing down of the daily
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* Journalists protest at colleague's arrest
July 22, daily Iran - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- In separate communiques
to their colleagues in 'Emrooz' daily, the journalists and correspondents
of ' Iran ' and 'Hamshahri' dailies called for the release of Kazem Shokri,
a member of that daily's ['Emrooz'] editorial board ... FULL
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* Swedish politicians support Iranian students
July 22, 1999 -- Members of the Swedish People's Party have written
a letter to President Khatami expressing their support for the student
movement in Iran ... FULL
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Thursday
July 22, 1999
* Iran's pro-reform press warns crackdown could spark more unrest
TEHRAN, July 22 (AFP) - Iran's pro-reform press on Thursday demanded
the immediate release of a jailed newspaper editor and warned the growing
conservative crackdown on journalists could lead to more unrest. ewspapers
that support reformist President Mohammad Khatami blasted the regime's
conservatives over Tuesday's arrest of Kazem Shokri, a senior editor with
Sobh-e-Emrouz, a moderate daily close to the president ... FULL TEXT
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* Students: crackdown continues
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- An Iranian pro-democracy student
group accused authorities today of continuing arrests, beatings and forced
confessions, despite official statements that political detentions had
stopped. The Council of Student Protesters, which speaks for pro-democracy
demonstrators who earlier this month staged six days of protests, said
in a statement that ``a wave of arrests'' had begun after a crackdown on
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* President Clinton on unrest in Iran
WASHINGTON , July 22, 1999 (The New York Times) - Following are excerpts
from the news conference by President Clinton Wednesday at the White House,
as recorded by The New York Times: "... on Iran, frankly I'm reluctant
to say anything for fear that it will be used in a way that's not hopeful
to the forces of openness and reform." ... FULL
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Wednesday
July 21, 1999
* Khatami turns on hardline critics
TEHRAN, July 21 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and his
reformist allies, accused of failing to defend the Islamic system during
recent unrest, on Wednesday moved against hardline publications that had
challenged him. The Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, firmly under
Khatami's control, said it had moved against three newspapers after they
published a letter by Revolutionary Guards commanders criticising Khatami
and warning their patience with ``insults against the system'' was running
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* Khatami Warns Iran Hard-Liners
July 21, 1999, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Supporters of Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami today warned his critics in the military that
they could lose support by challenging the moderate leader. The president's
allies made the statement after senior military officers said their patience
with his democratic agenda was running thin ... FULL
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* Sobh-e Emrooz editor arrested
July 21, (BBC) - The editor of a moderate Iranian national newspaper
has been arrested for allegedly insulting Islam in an article. The editor,
Kazem Shokri, of the daily Emrooz was charged on Tuesday with having authorised
the publication of an article offensive to the Koran ... FULL
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* Students accuse conservatives of staging riots
TEHRAN, July 20 (AFP) - Pro-reform Iranian students accused the regime's
conservatives on Tuesday of orchestrating last week's riots in a bid to
topple President Mohammad Khatami or seriously weaken his government. Iranian
conservatives staged the riots to try to portray Khatami as powerless and
ineffectual in an effort to "bring reform to a dead-end," said
Ali Afshari from leading student group the Office of Consolidation and
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* Iran should release non-violent protesters
(New York, July 19, 1999) -- Human Rights Watch today called on the
Iranian authorities to release the names of the hundreds of students and
others taken into detention following violent clashes last week, and to
release those not implicated in any criminal conduct. Although the violence,
between students and civilian groups linked to senior conservative clerics,
ended four days ago, arrests have continued ... FULL
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Tuesday
July 20, 1999
* Revolutionary Guards denounce Khatami, students claim coup bid
TEHRAN, July 20 (AFP) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards denounced President
Mohammad Khatami in a letter published Tuesday, saying his moves toward
greater democracy were leading the Islamic republic into "anarchy."
But Khatami said the "top secret" letter had been intended for
his eyes only, raising fresh suspicions of a political power struggle as
his student supporters claimed conservatives had staged last week's riots
to topple him ... FULL
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* 5 Iranian Pressmen Arrested for Role in Unrest
TEHRAN (July 20) XINHUA - Five persons working for moderate dailies
have been arrested on charge of involvement in recent unrest in Tehran.
An informed source said the five people are from Zan (women), Khordad (name
of the third Iranian month), Neshat (Joy), and Azad (Freedom), the favorite
dailies of the Iranian people, particularly of the youth, the pro-conservative
daily Tehran Times reported on Tuesday ... FULL
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* Who is he?
The Intelligence Ministry claims Manouchehr Mohammadi, was one of the
main instigators of the student protests. In a televised broadcast Mohammadi
has "confessed" to having been in contact with opposition groups
in the U.S. So who is this man how credible are the accusations against
him? The daily Neshat compares the official description with an unofficial
one. Detailed report ... FULL
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Monday
July 19, 1999
* Iran Students Demand Release Of 1,400 Classmates
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian students have demanded the release of more
than 1,400 of their classmates they say were arrested by security forces
in recent days following pro-democracy demonstrations, newspapers reported
Sunday. They said one high school student, Tami Hami-far, was killed in
the unrest which followed an attack by police and hardline vigilantes on
pro-democracy students. The death could not be confirmed ... FULL
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* Iran releases 750 protesters
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iranian authorities have released
750 people who were arrested during the pro-democracy unrest last week,
the Tehran Times daily reported today. It quoted a government official
as saying 450 other people remain in detention, and that their cases are
``under investigation.'' The report did not name the official ... FULL
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