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* ANALYSIS-Court deals blow to Iran
reform movement
* Rafsanjani calls for calm ahead of next year's key elections
* Rafsanjani accuses U.S. of lying
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* Jury recommends convicting Nouri
* Conservative students demonstrate againt pro-reform students
* Iran welcomes efforts to mend U.S. ties
* Kharrazi hopes for "top level" ties with Egypt
* Revolution on trial
* Hardline Iranian court ends hearings,
Nouri defiant
* Iran to allow citizens to sue foreign governments
* Conservatives slam supporters of Tehran-Washington ties
* Reformist and conservative students stage demonstrations
* Abdollah Nouri calls for end to silence over past leaders
* Leading Iranian editor's trial continues amid press protests
* Iran parliament backtracks in holiday dispute
* Cook regrets death of Iran's anti-drugs officers
* Press court begins hearings against veteran reformist
editor
* Adineh's life-time ban reduced to five years
* Leading member of Iran's banned communist party dies in
Tehran
* Khatami calls for "culture of criticism" in Iran
* Iran link emerges in 1983 Beirut Marine bomb attack
* Tehran-Washington talks "meaningless": Iranian
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Friday
November 12, 1999
* ANALYSIS-Court deals blow to Iran reform movement
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The conviction of Abdollah Nouri by a hardline
clerical jury has effectively deprived Iran's pro-reform movement of its
leading light ahead of next year's parliamentary elections. The clerics,
all from the hardline faction that dominates the judiciary, also ruled
that there were no mitigating circumstances. However, the judge of the
Special Court for Clergy must still issue a final verdict and pass sentence
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* Rafsanjani calls for calm ahead of next year's key elections
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Friday called for calm between the country's feuding reformist and conservative
factions ahead of key parliamentary elections next February. "We
are getting close to important elections, we need calm, and we have to
give our people the opportunity to think in peace," Rafsanjani told
worshippers at the main weekly Muslim prayers at Tehran university ...
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* Rafsanjani accuses U.S. of lying
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (AFP) - Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani on Friday accused the United States of lying following Washington's
renewal of economic sanctions against Tehran. "Let's not think that
the smiles of the global arrogance (the United States) are spreading security,
they are showing their antagonism towards us every day," Rafsanjani
told worshippers during the main weekly Muslim prayers at Tehran university
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Thursday
November 11, 1999
* Jury recommends convicting Nouri
TEHRAN, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A hardline clerical jury in Iran has recommended
conviction of leading reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri after his trial on
charges of political and religious dissent, the Iranian news agency IRNA
reported on Thursday. It quoted a court statement as saying the jury of
the Special Court for Clergy voted to convict Nouri, a former vice-president,
on 15 unspecified counts and found that there were no mitigating circumstances
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* Conservative students demonstrate againt pro-reform students
TEHRAN, Nov 11 (AFP) - Iranian students from the southwestern city of
Ahvaz will stage a demonstration Thursday in protest against a reformist
student organization for supporting a spirit of dialogue with the US, a
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* Iran welcomes efforts to mend U.S. ties
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it would welcome efforts
by countries with close ties to the United States to urge Washington to
modify its hostile stand toward Tehran. The remarks by Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharrazi had a more positive tone than earlier pronouncements about
the United States and appeared to signal an initiative by Iran to ask European
and other countries to pressure Washington to alter its position ... FULL
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* Kharrazi hopes for "top level" ties with Egypt
TEHRAN, Nov 11 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said Thursday
he hoped to see relations between Iran and Egypt soon restored at the highest
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Wednesday
November 10, 1999
Revolution on trial
Khordad publisher Abdollah Nouri's defends himself in court (PDF
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* Hardline Iranian court ends hearings, Nouri defiant
TEHRAN, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Iran's hardline Special Court for Clergy
on Wednesday wound up hearings in the trial of leading reformist cleric
Abdollah Nouri, charged with political and religious dissent. The court
gave Nouri, a former vice-president, eight days to submit his final written
defence. A verdict from the panel of conservative clerics is due within
a week after that. Nouri has already predicted he will be convicted ...
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* Iran to allow citizens to sue foreign governments
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Parliament on Tuesday passed a law allowing
Iranians to sue foreign governments for damages in local courts, a move
seen aimed primarily at the United States. The law allows Iran's courts
to hear suits on ``any act by foreign governments violating international
law'' if it leads to the death or injury of an Iranian citizen or financial
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* Conservative press slams supporters of Tehran-Washington ties
TEHRAN, Nov 10 (AFP) - Iran's conservative press Wednesday slammed reformers
for supporting a spirit of dialogue with the United States, following Washington's
renewal of economic sanctions against Tehran. "The renewal of sanctions
against Iran by President Bill Clinton on Monday once more confirmed that
the US leaders are not straightforward, they say something and do something
else," the conservative Tehran Times paper said ... FULL
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Tuesday
November 9, 1999
* Reformist and conservative students stage rival demonstrations
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Reformist and conservative students in Tehran
staged separate demonstrations Tuesday for and against liberalisation of
the press, against a background of judicial action against journalists
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* Abdollah Nouri calls for end to silence over past leaders
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Reformist firebrand Abdollah Nuri broke new ground
in his defiance of Iran's conservatives Tuesday by demanding rehabilitation
of two historic nationalist leaders and "civic rights" for a
disgraced cleric long under house arrest ... FULL
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* Leading Iranian editor's trial continues amid press protests
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Reformist newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
appeared as defiant as ever on the second day of his trial here, as Iran's
journalists protested against continuing crackdowns on the press ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran parliament backtracks in holiday dispute
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament on Tuesday backtracked on
a decision taken three months ago to drop a national holiday, a move which
had provoked a nationalist uproar across the country ... FULL
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* Cook regrets death of Iran's anti-drugs officers
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook sent
a message of condolence to his Iranian counterpart on the death of 38 policemen
killed by drug traffickers, state radio reported on Monday ... FULL
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* Press court begins hearings against veteran reformist editor
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Veteran reformist newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
who has repeatedly thumbed his nose at court bans on his titles, went on
trial before Tehran's press court Monday on charges of offending Islam.
Shamsolvaezin was called to answer charges of "insulting Islamic sanctities,
as well as forging news items," state television said ... FULL TEXT
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* Adineh's life-time ban reduced to five years
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - The ban for life issued by the press court against
the respected independent magazine Adineh last winter, has been reduced
to five years upon appeal. However, the new decision will also be appealed,
editor Gholam-Hossein Zakeri said... FULL
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* Leading member of Iran's banned communist party dies in Tehran
TEHRAN, Nov 7 (AFP) - The former secretary general of Iran's banned
communist Tudeh party, Nuredine Kianuri, died Friday at the age of 87 in
Tehran following a heart attack, sources close to him told AFP Sunday ...
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* Khatami calls for "culture of criticism" in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami defended his
policy of opening up society, as the conservative courts continued their
clampdown on the moderate press with a high-profile case against a veteran
newspaper editor, Monday's press reported. The "culture of criticism
in society" must be expanded and strengthened, the English-language
Iran News quoted him as saying during a visit to the culture ministry ...
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* Iran link emerges in 1983 Beirut Marine bomb attack
NEW YORK, Nov 8 (AFP) - US intelligence officials have linked the government
of Iran to long-unsolved bombing attacks against US military forces in
Beirut and Saudi Arabia, Newsweek magazine reported Monday ... FULL TEXT
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* Tehran-Washington talks "meaningless": Iranian FM
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iran's foreign minister said Monday that talks
between Tehran and Washington were "meaningless" as long as the
United States maintained its hostile stance towards Iran, the official
IRNA news agency reported. "From Iran's point of view, as long the
hostile policies of the US still prevail, talks are meaningless,"
Kamal Kharazi told IRNA ... FULL
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