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* Director of Iranian paper arrested
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* Teen among 13 Jews facing execution for spying in Iran
* Virtual petition to Iran attracts 10,000 people
* Unfair trials and ill treatment of prisoners continue
in Iran: Amnesty
* President defends rights of Iranian Jews - agency
* Khatami highlights minority rights in Islamic Iran
* Jackson wants meeting with Iran
* Iran says more than 13 arrested in spy network
* Sarkuhi honored at paper forum
* 'Hoviyyat-e
Kheesh' banned for "insults"
* Khatami: Jews are safe in Iran
* Iran Jewish leader seeks justice
for 13 jailed Jews
* Jackson to aid 13 Jews held in Iran
* Iran's dissident ayatollah defends
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* Iran warns that Jewish "spies" risk death
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Friday
June 18, 1999
* Iran cleric says Jews spied, deserve to hang
TEHRAN, June 18 (Reuters) - An influential Iranian cleric said on Friday
that 13 Jews arrested on spying charges passed secrets to Israel through
third countries including Turkey and deserved to hang. Ayatollah Ahmad
Jannati, secretary of the powerful Guardian Council, said: ``They (Westerners)
think...they can force us into a compromise. But we cannot deal in things
like getting a concession and letting them go. Spies deserve to be hanged.''
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* Iranians protest against G8 ``appeasement policy''
COLOGNE, Germany, June 18 (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians opposed
to the current administration in Tehran demonstrated at the World Economic
Summit on Friday against what they called the West's policy of appeasement
towards Iran. ``We are asking G8 leaders to stop their appeasement policy
towards Iran, to stop trade relations and to condemn Iran for their use
of weapons of mass destruction,'' said Mohammad Mohaddesin, foreign affairs
spokesman of the exiled Iranian opposition group, the National Council
of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) ... FULL
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Thursday
June 17, 1999
* Director of Iranian paper arrested
TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - The director of a weekly publication close to
reformist circles in Iran was arrested Wednesday on the orders of the conservative
revolutionary tribunal in Tehran, the magazine said. Hossein Kashani, director
of Hoveyat-e-Khish, was taken in for questioning for having published information
contrary to "public order and the public interest," officials
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* Iranian Jews critical of outside support for spying suspects
TEHRAN, June 13 (AFP) - Statements of international support for 13 Iranian
Jews accused of spying are "propaganda," according to a communique
published Sunday by the official IRNA news agency and attributed to the
country's Jewish community. Sympathetic remarks from abroad are "simply
hostile propaganda irrelevant to the true interests and concerns of the
Jewish Iranians," the communique said ... FULL
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* Teen among 13 Jews facing execution for spying in Iran
PARIS, June 17 (AFP) - A 16-year-old adolescent is among 13 Iranian
Jews facing trial and possible execution in Iran on charges of spying for
Israel, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF)
said Thursday. The teen is Navid Balazade, according to a CRIF statement
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* Virtual petition to Iran attracts 10,000 people
JERUSALEM, June 17 (PRNewswire) -- Virtual Jerusalem has committed itself
to fighting the arrest of 13 innocent Jews in Iran accused of "world
arrogance" and of spying for the "Zionist regime" with the
creation of an online petition and comprehensive news site ... FULL
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Wednesday
June 16, 1999
* Unfair trials and ill treatment of prisoners continue in Iran:
Amnesty
LONDON, June 16 (AFP) - Iran continued to hold hundreds of political
prisoners in 1998, many sentenced after unfair trials, the human rights
group Amnesty International said Wednesday in its annual report. "Reports
of torture and ill treatment continued to be received," Amnesty said,
adding that its information also suggested that "extrajudicial executions"
had occurred. It also said human rights abuses had been committed by armed
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* President defends rights of Iranian Jews - agency
TEHRAN, June 16 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami, facing international
criticism for Iran's arrest of 13 people charged with spying for Israel,
on Wednesday repeated is pledge to defend the rights of religious minorities.
``We deem it our task to defend our Sunni (Moslem) brothers and sisters
as well as Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian minorities,'' Khatami said
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Tuesday
June 15, 1999
* Khatami highlights minority rights in Islamic Iran
TEHRAN, June 15 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami, facing mounting
international pressure over the arrest of 13 Iranians on charges of spying
for Israel, has taken personal responsibility to ensure the rights of all
religious minorities. Iranian newspapers on Tuesday said Khatami, in a
speech at the weekend to commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, highlighted
the freedoms enjoyed by all recognised religious minorities in the Islamic
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* Jackson wants meeting with Iran
June 15, 1999, NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he is still
waiting for a requested meeting with Iran's U.N. ambassador over the fate
of 13 Iranian Jews arrested on espionage charges in their home country.
`We hope at some point such a meeting will be granted,'' Jackson told reporters
Monday outside U.N. headquarters. He was joined by local rabbis and representatives
of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal dioceses of New York, the Armenian
Church and the National Council of Churches ... FULL
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Monday
June 14, 1999
* Iran says more than 13 arrested in spy network|
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's U.N. mission
indicated in a press statement Monday that more alleged spies were recently
arrested than the 13 already accused of espionage for Israel and that they
included some Muslims. It appeared to be the first indication that the
number of those arrested went beyond the 13 believed to be Iranian Jews
and that they included Muslims ... FULL
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* Sarkuhi honored at paper forum
Monday, June 14, 1999 ZURICH, Switzerland (AP)
-- Iranian editor Faraj Sarkuhi, who was imprisoned both before and after
the country's Islamic revolution, received the Golden Pen of Freedom award
Monday from the World Association of Newspapers. Sarkuhi, former editor-in-chief
of the banned monthly magazine Adineh, told 1,100 editors and publishers
from 88 countries that ``international support and world pressure'' saved
his life after he was condemned to death three times ``during the tyranny
of the Islamic Republic.''... FULL
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* 'Hoviyyat-e Kheesh' banned for "insults"
June 13, 1999 (Kayhan - BBC Monitoring) - The fortnightly 'Hoviyyat-e
Kheesh' ['Self-Identity'] has been banned and all copies of the latest
edition have been taken out of circulation. According to reports, the Islamic
Revolution Court of Tehran has indicated that 'Hoviyyat-e Kheesh' has been
accused of insults and defamation against the main principles of the Islamic
republic's system ... FULL
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* Khatami: Jews are safe in Iran
June 14, 1999 (BBC) - President Khatami of Iran
has made a strong defence of the rights of religious minorities after the
arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on charges of spying for Israel. Tehran radio
quoted him as saying that he was responsible for the protection of all
religious minorities who live in Iran. This was the first comment by Mr
Khatami since the Iranian judiciary warned last week that the arrested
Jews could face the death penalty. ... FULL
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* Iran Jewish leader seeks justice for 13 jailed
Jews
TEHRAN, June 12 (Reuters) - An Iranian Jewish
leader called in remarks published on Saturday for ``true justice'' for
13 Jews arrested in Iran on charges of spying for Israel. ``As the representative
of (Iranian) Jews, I demand true justice for the suspects. If the results
of investigations prove them guilty, they should be punished. But if the
opposite was proved, they should be released immediately,'' Manouchehr
Eliasi, the representative of Iran's 27,000-strong Jewish community in
parliament said in an interview with the centrist Entekhab daily ... FULL
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* Jackson to aid 13 Jews held in Iran
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson pledged
Sunday to seek freedom for 13 Jews being held in Iran as alleged spies.
``The plight of 13 Iranian Jews has worldwide implications,'' Jackson told
a congregation of about 100 gathered at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan.
``Their release would send a ray of hope and light around the world.''
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* Iran's dissident ayatollah defends election
choice
TEHRAN, June 13 (Reuters) - Iran's top dissident
cleric, whose influence reaches beyond the confines of his house arrest,
has denounced attempts by conservative theologians to determine who may
stand for key parliamentary polls set for next March. In an open letter
to seminary students, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 76, accused
the conservative Guardian Council of overstepping its authority to protect
Islam and interfering directly in the democratic rights of the Iranian
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