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* Khatami rebukes Europe for backing
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* MKO charges ambush
* Iran's Khatami, Italy PM to discuss rights
* Protestors hurl paint at Khatami's car
* Students call for boycott over liberal cleric's arrest
* Conservatives, reformers battle over vote results
* Iranian opposition from "across Europe"
* Khatami: human rights depend on "world balance"
* Reformers sweep Tehran elections
* Police torture case heightens tensions
* Criticism mounting against religious court
* Hundreds of students rally in Tehran
* 300 women elected in municipal polls
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Friday
March 12, 1999
* Spectre of nationalism haunts Iran
AHMADABAD, Iran, March 11 (Reuters) - The spectre of secular nationalism
is stalking the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nowhere is this more evident
than in the accelerating revival of the late Mohammad Mossadeq, the former
prime minister who nationalised British oil interests, advocated a policy
of non-alignment and steadily undermined the pro-Western shah only to be
brought down by a CIA coup in 1953 ... FULL
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Thursday
March 11, 1999
* Khatami rebukes Europe for backing Rushdie
TEHRAN, March 11 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami broke from
his pro-Western message in Italy to deliver a stinging rebuke to European
nations which have supported author Salman Rushdie. Khatami criticised
European nations for backing "a person who has desecrated ... the
feelings of more than one billion Moslems" around the world, the official
news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
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* MKO charges ambush
March 11, 1999, BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An Iranian opposition group in
exile said Thursday that armed gunmen ambushed its members traveling in
a convoy in southern Iraq, and that one assailant was killed in retaliatory
fire. The attackers, who worked for the Iranian government, fired machine
guns and rocket-propelled grenades on the vehicles Wednesday near Amara,
250 miles southeast of Baghdad, the Iraq-based Mujahedeen Khalq Organization
said in a statement ... FULL
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Wednesday
March 10, 1999
* Iran's Khatami, Italy PM to discuss rights
ROME, March 10 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, sounding
a theme of peace and reconciliation on his state visit to Italy, was expected
to discuss human rights with Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema on Wednesday.
D'Alema, a former communist, has signalled that while he believes the West
and Iran should push harder towards a firm rapprochement, he will also
make clear to Khatami that more must be done to combat human rights abuses
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* Protestors hurl paint at Iranian leader's car, 13 arrested
ROME, March 10 (AFP) - Thirteen people were arrested Wednesday after
protestors hurled paint at a car carrying Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
through central Rome, police said. (See photo) Their identities and nationalities
were not immediately disclosed. Police said some were in possession of
eggs filled with paint when they were detained. At least two eggs filled
with yellow paint hit Khatami's car in the protest ... FULL
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* Iranian students call for boycott over liberal cleric's arrest
TEHRAN, March 10 (AFP) - Iranian university students called for a boycott
of classes Wednesday to protest the arrest of popular liberal cleric Mohsen
Kadivar. The Students' Unity Movement called on students across the capital
not to attend classes as a show of solidarity with Kadivar, who was jailed
last month by order of Iran's powerful Supreme Court for Clergy (SCC) for
spreading propaganda "hostile" to the Islamic republic ... FULL TEXT
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* Conservatives, reformers battle over meaning of Iran vote results
TEHRAN, March 10 (AFP) - Iran's conservatives on Wednesday tried to
play down sweeping victories by reformers in the Islamic republic's first-ever
municipal elections as both sides battle over interpreting the results.
"Only 30 percent of those eligible participated in the local elections
in Tehran," where reformers backing moderate President Mohammad Khatami
swept all 15 council seats, the conservative Tehran Times said ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
March 9, 1999
* Iranian opposition from "across Europe" gathers in Rome:
IRNA
TEHRAN, March 9 (AFP) - Members of Iran's opposition People's Mujahedeen
have gathered in Rome from across Europe to protest the visit of President
Mohammad Khatami, the official news agency IRNA said Tuesday. "They
are planning a protest in the centre of Rome against the Iranian head of
state's visit," IRNA said, adding that members of the opposition group,
which is banned in Iran, had come "from across Europe." Their
presence is "very noteworthy," IRNA said ... FULL
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* Khatami says human rights depend on "world balance"
ROME, March 9 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami told Italian
political leaders Tuesday that human rights can only be guaranteed in "a
world in balance" and called for the strengthening of international
institutions. Khatami, the first Iranian leader to visit western Europe
since the 1979 Islamic revolution, was speaking at the Italian parliament,
against a backdrop of protests by thousands of Iranians living in exile
in Europe ... FULL
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Monday
March 8, 1999
* Iran reformers score another big win, sweep Tehran elections
TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - Reformist supporters of Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami swept all 15 seats on the Tehran municipal council Monday in another
stunning defeat over the Islamic regime's conservatives. The victory is
a powerful endorsement of the president's reform agenda on the eve of his
historic trip to Italy, the first to a western European nation by an Iranian
head of state since the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Iran police torture case heightens political tensions
TEHRAN, March 7 (AFP) - The head of security affairs for the Iranian
police is to be tried for torture in a case that has further heightened
simmering political tensions between reformers and hardliners in the Islamic
republic. General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi and 10 other officers will be tried
in a military court on May 3 on charges of beating and torturing top officials
in the Tehran municipal government, it was announced last week ... FULL TEXT
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* Criticism mounting against powerful Iranian religious court
TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - Reformers stepped up the pressure on Iran's
special religious court Monday amid growing public anger at one of the
Islamic regime's most hardline institutions. A reformist MP lashed out
at Iran's all-powerful Special Court for Clergy (SCC) over its arrest of
liberal cleric Mohsen Kadivar, who is increasingly being seen here as a
political prisoner in a case that has sparked public demonstrations and
widespread outrage ... FULL
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* Hundreds of Iranian students rally in Tehran
TEHRAN, March 7 (AFP) - Several hundred Iranian students demonstrated
at Tehran university Sunday over the arrest of leading liberal cleric Mohsen
Kadivar, defying calls to postpone the rally over fears of violence. Anti-riot
police stationed around the campus put a quick end to a shoving match that
erupted between protesters and Islamic fundamentalists but otherwise there
was no violence ... FULL
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* 300 women elected in Iranian municipal polls
TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - Female candidates did extremely well in Iran's
first-ever municipal elections with 300 of them elected to city councils
across the country, Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi-Lari said Monday.
"It's a very interesting score, because in many districts, women account
for a not insignificant proportion" of the new councillors, Moussavi-Lari
told a news conference ... FULL
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