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* UN asks for "fair" trial
for Iranian Jews
* U.S. saw Shah's Khomeini mistake in mid-60s
* Reformist clergy resist pre-poll call for unity by conservatives
* Interior minister promises "healthy"
elections in February
* Two armed robbers sentenced to hand, foot amputations,
lashes and prison
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* Rival clerics hold meeting; make little
headway
* British MP voices concern over situation
of Bahais in Iran
* Moderate culture minister "not optimistic" over
Nuri verdict
* Khamenei Strongly Rejects Ties With U.S.
* Iran agrees to reopen border with Afghanistan: repor
* Former interior minister to start newspaper
* Khatami urges high turnout in Iran polls
* Bomb in Mashhad blamed on killers of intellectuals
* Montazeri calls for freedom from house arrest: paper
* Shamsolvaezin freed on bail
* Abdollah Nouri to submit defence to anti-Islamic charges
Saturday
* Huge crowds turn out to cheer Khatami in Isfahan
* Iran eases limits on Monatzeri
* Press jury says female editor is guilty: report
* Restricting freedom of expression can "lead to violence"
* Defiant Iran seeks more foreign oil deals
* U.S. disappointed by Shell-Iran deal
* Poll candidates to be told why they are
rejected
* Reformists set up election campaign staff
* Shamsolvaezin defies press court judge
* Press court deals with woman editor in three hours
* Tabriz court jails five students in wake of unrest
* French Prime Minister "immature" comments on
Jews
* British parliamentary delegation to visit Iran
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Friday
November 19, 1999
* UN asks for "fair" trial for Iranian Jews
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (AFP) - The United Nations (UN) General Assembly
has asked Iran to guarantee a "fair and transparent trial" for
the 13 Iranian Jews accused by Tehran of spying. The UN General Assembly
Thursday evening adopted a resolution condemning human rights violations
alleged to have perpetrated by Iran, as reported by the delegates of several
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* U.S. saw Shah's Khomeini mistake in mid-60s
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S. State Department analysts understood
that the Shah of Iran had mishandled the Islamic opposition as early as
1965, 14 years before the revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
according to classified documents released on Thursday ... FULL
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* Reformist clergy resist pre-poll call for unity by conservatives
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - The main religious faction backing Iran's reformist
President Mohammad Khatami resisted Thursday a call for "unity and
understanding" among the powerful clergy from its conservative counterpart
ahead of vital elections, the official IRNA news agency reported ... FULL TEXT
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* Interior minister promises "healthy" elections in February
TEHRAN, Nov 19 (AFP) - Interior Minister Abdolvahed Musavi Lari has
promised to do all he can to ensure that next year's parliamentary elections
will be "healthy," the official IRNA news agency reported Friday
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* Two armed robbers sentenced to hand, foot amputations, lashes and
prison
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - Two convicted armed robbers have been sentenced
by a revolutionary court in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz to have
the right hand and left foot of each amputated, the Kayhan paper reported
Thursday ... FULL
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Thursday
November 18, 1999
* Rival clerics hold meeting; make little headway
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Iran's rival clerical factions held a reconciliation
meeting under tight security on Thursday in an attempt to ease political
tensions ahead of next year's parliamentary polls. The discussion at a
downtown mosque, the second of its kind in recent weeks, was held at the
initiative of the Society of Militant Clergy, the leading group of conservative
clerics ... FULL
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* Baha'is have rights too
Baha'is have rights too... - President Khatami
November 1999, (Iranian Human Rights
Working Group) -- President Khatami's pronouncement, in his Paris press
conference on Friday 29th October, on the plight of Baha'is in Iran is
by far the most encouraging statement made by an Iranian high official
of the Islamic Republic in this regard since the demise of the provisional
government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. However, his statement fell far short
of acknowledging the basic rights to religious freedom enshrined in Article
18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Iran is a state
signatory ... FULL
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* British MP voices concern over situation of Bahais in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - A member of a visiting British parliamentary
delegation has warned the situation of adherents of the Bahai faith in
Iran could be an "obstacle" for improved Tehran-London ties,
a press report said Thursday ... FULL
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* Khamenei Strongly Rejects Ties With U.S.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has
strongly rejected ties with the United States, despite increasing calls
by reformers for a review of Tehran's policy toward Washington, newspapers
said Thursday. ``Petty and weak individuals want to subject the Iranian
nation to the undignified state of some countries which are American protectorates,''
the daily Arya quoted Khamenei as saying Wednesday ... FULL
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* Iran agrees to reopen border with Afghanistan: report
ISLAMABAD, Nov 18 (AFP) - Iran has agreed to reopen its border with
Afghanistan after several days of talks between traders of the two countries,
a Pakistan-based news agency said. No independent confirmation was immediately
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Wednesday
November 17, 1999
* Former interior minister to start newspaper
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (Reuters) - A former Iranian interior minister is to
publish a new daily newspaper, in a bid to help fill the gap left by the
closure in July of the leading reformist voice, newspapers reported on
Wednesday. The first edition of Bayan, or Expression, is scheduled to appear
on Thursday under publisher Ali Akbar Mohtashami, a former militant interior
minister, the daily Azad said ... FULL
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* Khatami urges high turnout in Iran polls
ISFAHAN, Iran, Nov 16 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday
urged Iranians to take an active part in February's parliamentary elections,
seen as a turning point in his struggle to reform the Islamic government
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* Bomb in Mashhad blamed on killers of intellectuals
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - A bomb that killed two people at a holy site
in northeast Iran in September was the work of a group headed by a renegade
intelligence agent accused of murdering moderates last year, Iranian radio
said Wednesday ... FULL
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* Montazeri calls for freedom from house arrest: paper
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - Dissident cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri, 78, once
in line to be Iran's supreme leader, has rejected measures to lighten his
house arrest, demanding "total freedom", a newspaper reported
Wednesday ... FULL
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* Shamsolvaezin freed on bail
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - Reformist newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
was freed on bail Wednesday pending the press court's verdict following
his trial on charges of fraud and offending Islam, staff at his paper said
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* Abdollah Nouri to submit defence to anti-Islamic charges Saturday
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - Iranian reformist Abdollah Nuri will submit his
written defence to the hardline Special Court for Clergy (SCC) Saturday,
following his trial for alleged anti-Islamic offences, his lawyer Mohsen
Ramahi said Wednesday ... FULL
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Tuesday
November 16, 1999
* Huge crowds turn out to cheer President Khatami in Isfahan
ISFAHAN, Iran, Nov 16 (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people turned
out on the huge Imam Square in Isfahan Tuesday to give a rousing welcome
to President Mohammad Khatami on his first official visit to the central
Iranian city. It was estimated to be the biggest rally in Iran since Khatami
was elected in May 1997 ... FULL
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* Iran eases limits on Monatzeri
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Authorities have moved toward easing restrictions
on Iran's top dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri,
under house arrest since 1997 for challenging the country's supreme leader,
a household member said on Tuesday ... FULL
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* Press jury says female editor is guilty: report
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - Tehran's press court jury has found a female
newspaper editor guilty on more than half the charges levelled against
her, the conservative Abrar paper reported Tuesday. Jaleh Oskui, 40, was
deemed guilty on eight charges, and exonerated on the remaining seven,
the paper said ... FULL
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* Restricting freedom of expression can "lead to violence"
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - Iran's Interior Minister, Abdolvahid Mussavi
Lari has warned that if freedom of expression is restricted, the end result
of could be violence and dictatorship, the English-language Iran News reported
Tuesday ... FULL
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* Defiant Iran seeks more foreign oil deals
PARIS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday said it would soon sign more
oil development contracts with foreign companies in defiance of U.S. sanctions
following an $800 million agreement with Royal Dutch/Shell reached at the
weekend ... FULL
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* U.S. disappointed by Shell-Iran deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it was ``deeply
disappointed and much concerned'' by an $800 million agreement between
Royal Dutch/Shell and the Iranian National Oil Company to develop two Iranian
oilfields. But analysts said they doubted the Clinton administration would
break with precedent and impose sanctions on the Anglo-Dutch giant under
the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) of 1996, barring a sudden shock to
Iranian-American relations ... FULL
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* Poll candidates to be told why they are rejected
TEHRAN, Nov 14 (AFP) - Candidates in February's Iranian general elections
will be told in future why they have been rejected by a powerful conservative
vetting body, a leading official was quoted as saying Sunday ... FULL TEXT
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* Reformists set up election campaign staff
TEHRAN, Nov 14 (AFP) - Eighteen political, religious and professional
groups supporting the reforms of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami have
set up a joint election campaign staff ahead of the February polls, press
reports said Sunday ...
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* Shamsolvaezin defies press court judge
TEHRAN, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Reformist editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
defied Iran's press court on Sunday, challenging the fairness of the judge
and vowing not to be intimidated. ``You want to forcibly remove me from
journalism,'' Shamsolvaezin told Judge Saeed Mortazavi on the third tumultuous
day of his trial for forgery and insulting Islam ... FULL
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* Press court deals with woman editor in three hours
TEHRAN, Nov 15 (AFP) - Iran's press court Monday took just three hours
to hear charges against a female newspaper editor accused of 15 different
offences including the publication of anti-Islamic articles. Jaleh Oskui,
40, head of the banned Penj-Shanbeh-ha (Thursdays) weekly, appeared without
a defence lawyer before press court judge Said Mortazavi ... FULL TEXT
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* Tabriz court jails five students in wake of unrest
TEHRAN, Nov 14 (AFP) - A court in the western Iranian city of Tabriz
has sentenced five students to jail terms of between eight months and eight
years in connection with last July's violent unrest, the reformist daily
Khordad reported Sunday ... FULL
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* French Prime Minister "immature" comments on Jews
TEHRAN, Nov 15 (AFP) - Tehran on Monday blasted French Prime Minister
Lionel Jospin as "immature" after he warned Iran could be frozen
out of the international community over the case of 13 Jews facing trial
on espionage charges ... FULL
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* British parliamentary delegation to visit Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 13 (AFP) - Iran will receive its first visit by a British
parliamentary delegation in 12 years Sunday, only two days after the arrival
here of a British trade delegation, the official IRNA news agency said.
The visits come less than a month after Britain expressed its readiness
to expand ties with Iran ... FULL
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