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* Opposition figures pledge to expose
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* Two political prisoners executed - group
* Khamenei declines to pardon jailed Tehran mayor
* Khatami calls for greater tolerance
* Demonstrators clash over jailing of liberal cleric
* Judiciary chief calls for stricter press controls
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Friday
May 14, 1999
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Thursday
May 13, 1999
* Editor of communist newsletter quits
May 13, 1999 (Press Release) - Laila Danesh, editor of Iranian Communist
Workers Party's "The International" newsletter, has quit in protest
against the policies of party ...
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Wednesday
May 12, 1999
* Opposition figures pledge to expose former minister's murderers
May 11, 1999 (Neshat) - Three hundred and twenty five political and
cultural personalities have issued a statement marking the passage of 170
days since the murder of [former labour minister] Daryush and [his wife]
Parvaneh Foruhar. The statement, in part, says: "Like-minded people
of this land, once again, raise their cry for justice against the ill-tempered
cowards, whose criminal deed has bereaved the Iranian nation. We are impatiently
waiting for the open trial of those who directed, planned and perpetrated
these horrific crimes." ... FULL
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* Two political prisoners executed - group
May 11, (ORWI) - Two political prisoners were executed last week after
years of imprisonment, the Democratic Party of Kurdistan reported ...
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Tuesday
May 11, 1999
* Khamenei declines to pardon jailed Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, May 11 (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has rejected calls to issue a pardon for Tehran's former moderate mayor,
who was jailed after being convicted for graft. In a letter read in parliament
on Tuesday, Khamenei said: ``The authority to resolve such matters lies
with the judiciary, and it is in the good of the country and the people
if legal rulings are not undermined with different motives.'' ... FULL
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* Khatami calls for greater tolerance
TEHRAN, May 11 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami appealed to
the various political factions in the country on Tuesday to stop viewing
each other as "rivals" and to display greater tolerance. "The
various factions should refrain from making certain issues bigger than
they are in order to drive out their rivals from the scene," the official
IRNA news agency quoted Khatami as saying during a meeting with senior
clerics in Tehran ... FULL
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Monday
May 10, 1999
* Demonstrators clash over jailing of liberal cleric
TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - Iranian fundamentalists disrupted a demonstration
by moderate students on Sunday over the jailing of a liberal cleric accused
of spreading propoganda hostile to the Islamic regime. Around 700 students
gathered at Tehran university to call for the release of Mohsen Kadivar,
a leading light of the reform movement in Iran who began an 18-month jail
term last month ... FULL
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