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* Neshat's successor hits the news-stands
* Pro-reform Iran editors ready new daily after ban
* U.S. cites Iran for religious persecution
* Iran arrests relatives of dissidents' murder suspects:
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* Iran closes publisher over ``blasphemous'' book
* Iran recommends legal action over satirical play
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Friday
October 8, 1999
* Iran holds six new suspects for dissidents' murders
TEHRAN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities arrested six new suspects
in connection with a series of dissidents' murders last year blamed on
rogue secret police agents, Iranian state television reported on Thursday.
It quoted a statement from the military courts as saying an investigation
had been launched into the role of the six in the murders of veteran opposition
leader Dariush Forouhar, his wife Parvaneh, and two outspoken dissident
intellectuals ... FULL
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* MKO protests Khatami plan to visit France
PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Iranian exiles said they demonstrated outside
French embassies in 24 cities around the world on Thursday to protest against
a French government invitation to Iran's President Mohammad Khatami. In
Paris, a protest took place outside the headquarters of UNESCO, the United
Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, where Khatami
is expected to attend the agency's general assembly at the end of this
month ... FULL
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Thursday
October 7, 1999
* Banned daily returns to news-stands under new name
TEHRAN, Oct 7 (AFP) - Senior staff members of the leading reformist
daily Neshat, banned for "insulting Islam," defied the conservative-led
clampdown against the moderate press Thursday by bringing a new daily to
the newsstands. "Asr-e Azadegan (Era of the Freed) is Neshat's replacement,"
a staff member told AFP. Editor-in-chief of the new moderate paper, Mashallah
Shamsolvaezin, and his main deputy, Hamid-Reza Jalaipur, retained the positions
they had held at Neshat on the new newspaper ... FULL
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* Why we keep publishing
Neshat's successor hits the news-stands
Editorials (in Persian) by:
- Mashallah
Shamsolvaezin
- Hamid-Reza
Jalaie-pour
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Wednesday
October 6, 1999
* Pro-reform Iran editors ready new daily after ban
TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A team of reformist Iranian editors was busy
on Wednesday preparing to launch yet another newspaper after hardliners
banned three previous dailies, a source in the newsroom said. ``God willing,
Asr-e Azadegan newspaper will be on the newsstands on Thursday,'' the source
close to publisher Ghafour Garshasbi told Reuters. ``This newspaper will
continue the same reformist line as its predecessors,'' he said ... FULL
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* U.S. cites Iran for religious persecution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department has designated China, Iran,
Iraq, Myanmar and Sudan as countries of particular concern for violations
of religious freedom, making them liable for U.S. diplomatic and economic
sanctions, spokesman James Rubin said Wednesday. The designations are the
first under a procedure mandated by Congress in last year's Religious Freedom
Act. The test is whether a government has ``engaged in or tolerated particularly
severe violations of religious freedom during the preceding 12 months.''
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* Iran arrests relatives of dissidents' murder suspects: paper
TEHRAN, Oct 6 (AFP) - Iranian police have arrested relatives of the
alleged murderers of several intellectual opponents of the regime, including
the wife of the man charged with killing a leading dissident couple, the
press here said Wedndesday. The relatives are being questioned by police,
the English-language Tehran Times said, quoting an "informed source."
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Tuesday
October 5, 1999
* Iran closes publisher over ``blasphemous'' book
TEHRAN, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Iran has suspended the licence of a publishing
house which printed a book deemed blasphemous to Shi'ite Islam, an official
at the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry said on Tuesday. The official
told Reuters the book Divaneh-ye Dovvom (The Second Lunatic) was written
in what he termed a ``cryptic style'' and disparaged the 12th Imam, whose
return to earth to usher in an era of perfect justice is eagerly awaited
by pious Shi'ites ... FULL
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Monday
October 4, 1999
* Iran recommends legal action over satirical play
TEHRAN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities said on Sunday they had
completed an investigation into a satirical play, which had caused an uproar
among hardliners, and transferred the files of four suspects to the judiciary
for legal action. The official IRNA news agency quoted a statement by the
intelligence ministry as saying the suspects had confessed ``to being guilty''
over the play ... FULL
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* Leading liberal editor summoned to Iranian court
TEHRAN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - A leading pro-reform editor was summoned to
Iran's press court on Sunday in connection with an earlier case that saw
his newspaper, Neshat, banned for insulting Islam, a newspaper colleague
said. Mashallah Shamsolvaezin's court appearance comes a day after he and
a colleague appealed to reformist President Mohammad Khatami to break his
silence on the mounting pressures against the pro-reform press ... FULL TEXT
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* Editors ask Khatami to defend the press
TEHRAN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Two leading Iranian journalists appealed to
reformist President Mohammad Khatami on Saturday to break his silence on
the mounting pressures against his allies in the press. In an open letter
to the president, Hamid Reza Jalaiepour and Mashallah Shamsolvaezin asked
Khatami -- who has fostered Iran's independent press in his campaign for
a civil society -- to shield them from their powerful critics ... FULL TEXT
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