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* Jesse Jackson to try to help accused Iranian Jews
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* Iran to try 13 Jews charged with spying for Israel
* Paris concerned by arrest of Jews in Iran
* Iranian Jews: an ancient but diminishing community
* Conversative clampdown on press
* Iranian paper reports arrest of 13 Jews in Iran
* Germany says concerned at arrest of Iranian Jews
* Israel's Barak asks Annan to help free Iran Jews
* Israeli chief rabbi calls for help for Jews to leave Iran
* Majlis postpones examination of labour law reform bill
* Amnesty concerned about Jews arrested in Iran
* Top judge says he is stepping down
* Iran approves bill on easing labor laws
* Iranians fed up with conservative attitudes
* Municipal councillor assassinated
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Friday
June 11, 1999
* Iran warns that Jewish "spies" risk death
TEHRAN, June 11 (AFP) - Iran's judicial chief warned Friday that 13
Jews charged with spying for arch-enemy Israel risk execution in a case
that threatens to cloud efforts by moderate President Mohammad Khatami
for detente with the West. "These people are charged with selling
out the rights of 60 million Iranians to the Zionist regime," Yazdi
told the crowds at Tehran University ... FULL
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* Jesse Jackson to try to help accused Iranian Jews
LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Reuters) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who secured
the release of three U.S. soldiers captured in Yugoslavia, indicated on
Friday he might be on the verge of another mission -- to Iran, where 13
Iranian Jews have been imprisoned on espionage charges. Jackson also announced
a private effort to help ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo with airlifts
of medical aid and supplies to refugee camps and to the Yugoslav province,
which is awaiting the return of hundreds of thousands of people ... FULL
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* Statement in support of student movement in Iran
Statement in Support of the Pro-Democracy Movement of Iranian University
Students, Faculty and Researchers by Iranian Exiled and Immigrant University
Academics: We, the undersigned, the Iranian exiled/immigrant university
faculty and researchers, express our admiration for your struggle and our
concern about the detrimental circumstances against which you struggle.
Some of us, who were involved in similar struggles in the past, are familiar
with the sheer danger confronting you ... FULL
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* Khatami calls for legalization of opposition groups
TEHRAN, June 11 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami
has called for greater tolerance for dissenting views and the legalization
of opposition groups, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday. Differences
of opinion are a "normal phenomenon" and "should be recognized
as a normal and accepted trend," the president told a reformist group
which backs his policies, the Islamic Iran Participation Front ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
June 10, 1999
* Iran reformers see threat to 'Khatami thaw'
TEHRAN, June 10 (Reuters) - Iran's powerful conservative establishment
has prepared new measures that would gut nascent press freedoms and reverse
the ``Khatami thaw'' settling over the Islamic republic. Draft revisions
to the current press laws, now circulating among hardline members of parliament,
would tighten significantly already tough limits on freedom of expression,
choking off President Mohammad Khatami's attempts to introduce a civic
society within Iran's existing Islamic system... FULL
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* Iran to try 13 Jews charged with spying for Israel
TEHRAN, June 10 (AFP) - Iran announced Thursday that 13 Iranian Jews
will be tried on charges of spying for arch-enemy Israel in a case that
has whipped up a storm of condemnation among world political and religious
leaders. Under Islamic law, the 13 could face the death penalty if convicted
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* Paris concerned by arrest of Jews in Iran
PARIS, June 10 (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it was concerned
by Iran's arrest of 13 Jews accused of operating a ``Zionist'' spy network
and said the European Union was preparing to take up the matter with Tehran.
``We are concerned by the arrests which took place in the Jewish community
and worried by the way in which this affair is developing,'' a French Foreign
Ministry statement said ... FULL
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* Iranian Jews: an ancient but diminishing community
TEHRAN, June 10 (AFP) - Iran's Jewish community dates back more than
2,500 years but has been in steady decline since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Since the shah was toppled and the Islamic clergy severed ties with Israel,
around 35,000 Jews have fled, leaving a population of about 27,000 in a
country whose population is 99 percent Moslem. However, Judaism is recognised
by the Iranian constitution as an official minority religion alongside
Christianity and Zoroastrianism ... FULL
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Wednesday
June 9, 1999
* Conversative clampdown on press
June 8, 1999 (BBC) - The conservative majority in the Iranian parliament
has introduced a controversial bill which journalists allege is intended
to restrict press freedom. The bill includes changes to the current, relatively
liberal press law in several key areas, such as referring some press offences
to the revolutionary courts, where there is no jury and no access to lawyers
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* Iranian paper reports arrest of 13 Jews in Iran
TEHRAN, June 9 (AFP) - A conservative Iranian newspaper that is close
to the country's judiciary implicitly confirmed Wednesday reports that
13 Jews had been arrested in southern Iran Iran for spying. "The arrest
of 13 Iranian Jews in Shiraz for espionage has provoked strong reactions
by US and Israeli officials," the Ressalat evening paper reported
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* Germany says concerned at arrest of Iranian Jews
COLOGNE, Germany, June 9 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Joschka
Fischer said on Wednesday Bonn was ``gravely concerned'' about the arrest
of 13 Jews in Iran on suspicion of spying for Israel and the United States.
Fischer, speaking after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
also said he did not believe that charges of espionage against the group
would stand up in court ... FULL
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* Israel's Barak asks Annan to help free Iran Jews
JERUSALEM, June 9 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak
asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to help secure the
release of 13 Iranian Jews jailed on spying charges. ``Barak asked for
Annan to intervene to find a way to get them released immediately. The
secretary-general promised to act on the matter,'' Barak's spokeswoman
said in a statement ... FULL
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* Israeli chief rabbi calls for help for Jews to leave Iran
JERUSALEM, June 9 (AFP) - One of Israel's two chief rabbis appealed
Wednesday for Iranian Jews to be given help to emigrate after the reported
arrest of 13 Jews in the Islamic republic. "Everything must be done
to enable the 25,000 or so Iranian Jews to leave the country. Their lives
are in danger because they could be used as scapegoats," said Eliahou
Bakshi-Doron, the chief rabbi of the Sephardi -- or oriental -- Jews ...
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* Majlis postpones examination of labour law reform bill
TEHRAN, June 9 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated parliament Wednesday
postponed detailed discussion of a controversial bill aimed at easing labour
legislation for small businesses. Under the bill, small businesses with
three employees or less will be exempt from the current legislation for
six years ... FULL
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Tuesday
June 8, 1999
* Amnesty concerned about Jews arrested in Iran
June 8, 1999 (Amnesty International) - Amnesty International is concerned
that the 13 people named above may be at risk of unfair trial and could
face the death penalty if convicted. News reports citing the Iranian authorities
state that they have been accused of spying for Israel and the US, and
are to be prosecuted in a Revolutionary Court on espionage charges. Espionage
carries the death penalty in Iran. Lawyers and observers are excluded from
trials at Revolutionary Courts, where trials often fall short of minimum
international fair trial standards ... FULL
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* Top judge says he is stepping down
TEHRAN, June 8 (Reuters) - Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the head of Iran's
judiciary and a hardline conservative, said on Tuesday he was stepping
down after 10 years in office, according to state radio. The ayatollah,
an influential member of the conservative clerical establishment, has been
an outspoken critic of the relative press and intellectual freedom in Iran
under its moderate president, Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Iran approves bill on easing labor laws
TEHRAN, June 8 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament approved a bill on Tuesday
to ease labour laws as part of a drive to encourage investment and improve
the country's chronic unemployment problem, but the assembly must still
work out the final details. The law, passed by a narrow margin of 107 to
93, exempts firms with three or less employees from labour regulations
for six years ... FULL
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* Iranians fed up with conservative attitudes: Rafsanjani
daughter
TEHRAN, June 7 (AFP) - Faezeh Hashemi, a prominent moderate Iranian
MP and the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has lashed
out at the Islamic regime's conservative-dominated leadership. Hashemi,
in remarks published on Monday by the English-language Iran Daily, said
that Iranians are "fed up with hardline attitudes." ... FULL TEXT
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* Municipal councillor assassinated
TEHRAN, June 7 (AFP) - A member of the municipal council in a town west
of here has been abducted, tortured and killed, newspapers reported Monday.
Jahangir Rouzban, vice president of the municipal council in Ali Saiid,
near Savojboloaq west of Tehran, was kidnapped by three unknown men in
front of his house, the papers said ... FULL
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