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* Moderates barred from Tehran council: paper
* MKO appeals designation as terror organizations
* Iran executes killer of prison chief
* Dowlatabadi gives award to families of slain writers
* Former Tehran mayor gets approval for new paper
* Khatami rebukes Europe for backing Rushdie
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Wednesday
March 17, 1999
* Elected councils members "not to be vetted"
Tehran, March 17, irna -- deputy minister for political and social affairs
mostafa tajzadeh said here wednesday that all candidates for membership
in the city and urban councils who were elected last month do not have
to pass through any further vetting procedure. he said every rumour to
the country emanating from whatsoever source is invalid and must not be
heeded. tajzadeh said insofar as the interior ministry is concerned the
issue of meeting qualification criteria by candidates is long since over
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* 15 Held on Charges of Helping Alleged Terrorists Enter U.S.
March 17, 1999, (Los Angeles Times) - Federal authorities arrested 15
people Tuesday on charges of operating an immigration fraud ring that helped
members of an alleged Iranian terrorist group, among others, enter the
United States illegally. U.S. Atty. Alejandro N. Mayorkas and other law
enforcement officials refused, however, to provide any details about infiltration
of the country by Mujahedeen Khalq members ... FULL
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Tuesday
March 16, 1999
* Iran considers ending satellite TV ban for cultural "elite"
TEHRAN, March 16 (AFP) - Iran's cultural and political elite may soon
be free to have satellite dishes to receive foreign television, Culture
Minister Ataollah Mohajerani said in a surprise announcement Tuesday. He
told reporters the government is considering overturning its four-year
ban on the devices for "elites" such as artists, professors,
journalists and high-ranking public officials ... FULL
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Monday
March 15, 1999
* Five Iranian moderates barred from Tehran council: paper
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - The election of five moderates to the Tehran
municipal council has been annulled, a newspaper said Monday, as Iran's
conservatives stepped up the pressure to overturn the sweeping victory
by reformers in last month's elections. Former interior minister Abdollah
Nuri and four other backers of reformist President Mohammad Khatami will
not to be allowed to take their seats on the council by orders of the conservative-dominated
Supervision Board, the pro-government newspaper Sobh-e-Emrouz said ...
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* MKO appeals U.S. designation as terror organizations
March 14, 1999 (The Washington Post) -- Two groups designated by the
Clinton administration as foreign terrorist organizations have turned to
the American courts for vindication, waging the most significant challenge
yet to a 1996 antiterrorism law and the way the State Department designates
U.S. enemies. The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and Sri Lanka's
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have hired prominent lawyers to take their
cases to the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. They allege they
were designated as terrorists by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
in October 1997 based on a mostly secret record and with no advance notice
or opportunity to respond ... FULL
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* Iran executes killer of prison chief
TEHRAN, March 14 (AFP) - Iran has executed the killer of former prison
chief Assadollah Lajevardi who was gunned down in August, Tehran's revolutionary
court announced on Sunday. Ali Asghar Ghazanfarnejad Jolodar, said to be
a member of Iran's main armed opposition movement the People's Mujahedeen,
was executed Saturday at Tehran's Evin prison, the court said in a statement,
the official IRNA news agency reported ... FULL
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* Dowlatabadi gives his award to families of slain writers
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, who has received a special
cultural award in Germany, has dedicated his award to the families of slain
dissident writers, Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh ... FULL IMAGE
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* Former Tehran mayor gets approval for new paper
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - The convicted former mayor of Tehran was given
the green light Monday by Iran's culture ministry to launch a new newspaper,
the official news agency IRNA said. Gholamhossein Karbaschi was given approval
to launch the Ham-Mihan (Compatriot) paper despite onging efforts by opponents
in the conservative-dominated parliament to take away his control over
the official paper of the Tehran municipality, Hamshari (Citizen) ...
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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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