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October 11-15, 1999 / Mehr 19-23, 1378
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* Prosecutor charges reformist editor
* MPs, clerical body deadlocked on election law
* Hard-liners fight for power
* Iran denies suicide of suspect in dissident murders
* Khatami aides press for Iran election access
* France to warn Iran on arrested Jews-Vedrine
* German pays fine in Iran sex case
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* Top Iran reformer says dissent charges
'illegal'
* Second suspect dissident murders "kills himself"
* Iran following Pakistan crisis with concern
* Greek president arrives in Tehran
* Tehran Times management back accused boss
* Wine feud threat to Khatami's French visit solved
* France sees blocks to candid Europe-Iran talks
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October 15, 1999
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October 14, 1999
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Wednesday
October 13, 1999
* Prosecutor charges reformist editor who repeatedly defied court
bans
TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Iranian prosecutors have formally pressed charges
against leading reformist editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, who has defied
three court-imposed bans on his papers by bringing out new titles, the
judiciary announced on Wednesday. "The editor-in-chief of the (now
banned) daily Neshat will be prosecuted and tried in the presence of other
journalists," the judiciary said in a statement carried by the official
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* Iran MPs, clerical body deadlocked on election law
TEHRAN, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament defied the country's hardline
Guardian Council on Tuesday by sending to a higher body a proposed bill
that would limit the council's powers to bar election candidates, state
radio reported. The radio said deputies, who had been asked by the Guardian
Council to strike the measure limiting its powers, decided instead to send
the bill to the Expediency Council which arbitrates between parliament
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* Hard-liners fight for power
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Threatened by presidential reforms,
Iranian hard-liners have made an ambitious bid at preserving their power
by indicting President Mohammad Khatami's closest ally. A special clerical
court that operates behind closed doors indicted Abdollah Nouri on Monday
on some of the most serious charges ever brought against a senior politician
in Iran's Islamic government. Nouri, a towering figure in the reformist
camp and Khatami's right-hand man, was ordered to appear before the court
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* Iran denies suicide of suspect in dissident murders
TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Iran's military judiciary denied Wednesday a
press report that a second suspect in a wave of murders of dissidents here
last year has committed suicide in prison, the IRNA news agency reported.
A statement by the military coupled the denial of the report Tuesday in
the reformist Azad daily with a warning that the publication of "lies"
about the case could lead to prosecution for complicity ... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami aides press for Iran election access
TEHRAN, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Senior aides to Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami have turned up the heat on conservatives over rules for February's
parliamentary polls, in an effort to get more candidates backing the president's
reforms on the ballot ... FULL
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* France to warn Iran on arrested Jews-Vedrine
PARIS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - France plans to tell Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami the issue of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying could stymie his
bid to improve ties with the outside world, Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine
said on Wednesday ... FULL
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* German pays fine in Iran sex case
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A German businessman who previously
had been sentenced to death on charges of having illegal sex paid a fine
today, closing his case and removing the biggest hurdle to his release
from prison. It was not clear, however, when Helmut Hofer would be freed.
A string of other charges against him, including espionage and insulting
a prison officer, might still be pending ... FULL
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Tuesday
October 12, 1999
* Top Iran reformer says dissent charges 'illegal'
TEHRAN, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Leading Iranian reformist Abdollah Nouri
has denounced his indictment by a Special Court for Clergy on charges of
religious and political dissent as ``illegal.'' His condemnation of the
court raises the stakes in a struggle between the conservative establishment
and moderates backing President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Second suspect in Iran dissident murders kills himself in jail:
press
TEHRAN, Oct 12 (AFP) - A second suspect in a wave of murders of dissidents
here last year has committed suicide in prison, the reformist Azad daily
reported Tuesday. The death of Akbar Khosh-Kush, one of 27 people being
prosecuted for the murders, has not been confirmed by the authorities,
the paper stressed ... FULL
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* Iran following Pakistan crisis with concern
TEHRAN, Oct 12 (AFP) - Iran said Tuesday it was following developments
in neighbouring Pakistan with concern after the removal of prime minister
Nawaz Sharif by the army ... FULL
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* Greek president arrives in Tehran
TEHRAN, Oct 12 (AFP) - Greek President Kostis Stephanopoulos began a
three-day visit to Iran Tuesday with a call for closer cooperation between
the two countries. Stephanopoulos is only the second head of state of an
EU country to make an official visit to Iran since the Islamic revolution
of 1979, following the ground-breaking trip by Austria's Thomas Klestil
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* Tehran Times management back accused boss
TEHRAN, Oct 12 (AFP) - The management of Iran's English-language daily
Tehran Times gave public support Tuesday to the paper's managing director
Abbas Salimi Namin ahead of his appearance before the country's press court.
The backing came in a report by the newspaper of Namin's summons in connection
with recent articles in the daily, which is close to Iran's conservative
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* Wine feud threat to Khatami's French visit solved
PARIS, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Wine-loving France and tea- totalling Iran
have skirted around the delicate issue of drinks at a banquet if President
Mohammad Khatami visits by agreeing there will be no dinner given in his
honour at all ... FULL
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* France sees blocks to candid Europe-Iran talks
DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A French minister said in remarks published
on Monday that European states were seeking closer ties with Iran but several
issues, including security and arms matters, were standing in the way of
candid dialogue ... FULL
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October 11, 1999
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