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* Khatami says democracy needed for growth
* Rafsanjani vows no change in vengeance laws
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* Judiciary issues warning against moderate
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* Students File Lawsuits Against Police
* Opposition figure calls on Khamenei to reject extremists
* Khamenei defends eye-for-eye laws
* Court says probing police attack on campus
* Chief justice to hold rare meetings with ministers
* Intelligence chief vows to crush extremists
* Fresh political battle erupts in Iran over leading dissident
* Paper publishes banned photo of leading dissident
* Jews' case handed over to court for trial
* Study shows depression high among Qom women
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Friday
September 3, 1999
* Khatami says democracy needed for growth
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, under
pressure to boost growth and jobs, said only democratic reforms could revive
the economy and foreign investment. ``It is impossible to have economic
development in a socially and politically underdeveloped society,'' Khatami,
a moderate, said in a television interview late on Thursday ... FULL TEXT
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* Rafsanjani vows no change in vengeance laws
TEHRAN, Sep 3 (AFP) - Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani on Friday repeated warnings to the moderate press after a paper
proposed abolishing the death penalty and the Islamic law of vengeance.
"We will defend all the values and pillars of Islam with determination
and force," Rafsanjani said, two days after Iran's supreme leader
denounced any call to end Islamic punishments as the work of "apostates."
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* 30,000 in Holland Back Iran Reforms
Sept 3, 1999, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Iranian pro-democracy activists
handed the Dutch government a petition Friday signed by 30,000 people expressing
solidarity with reformers inside Iran and accusing Tehran of sending spies
to the Netherlands to discredit exiled dissidents ... FULL
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Thursday
September 2, 1999
Offending articles
The following are op-ed pieces (in Persian) against the death penalty
were published by Neshat newspaper. In an indirect reference, Ayatollah
Khamenei said those who question Islamic laws are punishable by death:
* Hossein
Baqerzadeh: "Is state violence permissable?" (Persian)
* Emadedin
Baqi: "Execution and Islamic retribution (qesas)" (Persian)
* Neshat's
explanation for publishing the opinion pieces (Persian)
* Khamenei's
warning (English)
Audio
* BBC Persian service feature on the contrversy, including:
- Sadeq Saba's analysis
- Interview with human rights activist Hossein Baqerzadeh
LISTEN HERE
(RealAudio)
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* Judiciary issues warning against moderate press\
TEHRAN, Sep 2 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated judiciary on Thursday
issued a warning against any attempts by the moderate press to breach the
pillars of the Islamic revolution. In a statement broadcast on radio, the
judiciary vigorously backed Wednesday's remarks by supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei who said "apostate" journalists opposing the country's
eye-for-an-eye laws were liable to the death penalty ... FULL
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* Students File Lawsuits Against Police Over Hostel Raid
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's military is investigating
a lawsuit filed by 15 students claiming they were beaten by policemen during
a raid on their dormitory in July, a newspaper reported Thursday ...
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Wednesday
September 1, 1999
* Opposition figure calls on Khamenei to reject extremists
Neshat newspaper
September 1, 1999
Yadollah Sahabi, the 95-year-old opposition figure, who is a leading
member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, has called on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
to distance himself from radical groups who carry out attacks in his name
... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN ... News
about Sahabi's letter in Englisg
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* Khamenei defends eye-for-eye laws
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Wednesday vigorously defended the country's eye-for-an-eye laws and
attacked moderate journalists who opposed them as "apostates,"
state radio reported. Iran's supreme leader has been lashing out at the
moderate newspaper Nehat for several days after it proposed abolishing
the death penalty as well as Iran's vengeance laws ... FULL
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* Court says probing police attack on campus
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Iran's military said on Wednesday it was
investigating complaints against police involved in a recent assault on
students, which killed at least one person and injured 200 people. ...
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Tuesday
August 31, 1999
* Chief justice to hold rare meetings with ministers
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - The new head of Iran's judiciary system will
hold highly unusual meetings with the foreign and interior ministers, Iranian
sources said Monday, as the courts prepare to try 13 Iranian Jews on charges
of spying for Israel ... FULL
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Monday
August 30, 1999
* Intelligence chief vows to crush extremists
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence chief has vowed to crack
down on religious extremists, in a clear sign of growing support for President
Mohammad Khatami within the security establishment. Newspapers on Saturday
quoted Ali Yunesi, who was appointed intelligence minister by Khatami in
February to reform the once-dreaded secret service, as saying the authorities
were determined to do away with so-called ``pressure groups,'' hardline
vigilantes waging a violent campaign to undermine Khatami's liberal reform
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* Fresh political battle erupts in Iran over leading dissident
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - A leading Iranian dissident close to reformist
President Mohammad Khatami is facing fresh allegations of conspiracy against
the Islamic republic's clerical regime, press reports said Monday ... FULL TEXT
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* Paper publishes banned photo of leading dissident
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper close to nationalist circles
published a front-page picture on Saturday of a dissident cleric once in
line to be Iran 's supreme leader but now forbidden to be mentioned in
the press. The Iran Vij paper featured a photo of Ayatollah Hossein-Ali
Montazeri, whose fierce criticisms of the regime have left him under house
arrest for the last 10 years ... FULL
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* Jews' case handed over to court for trial
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence service has handed over
the case of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel to the judiciary
for trial, a newspaper said on Saturday ... FULL
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* Study shows depression high among Qom women
TEHRAN, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A government study has shown that young women
in the conservative holy Iranian city of Qom are more depressed than those
in the more liberal capital Tehran, a senior official was quoted as saying
on Sunday. ... FULL
TEXT
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