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* International Religious Freedom for
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* Neshat: The beat goes on
* New justice chief faces reform battle
* Iran Jewish body questions spying charges
* CIA wary on N. Korea, Iran missiles
* Sahabi in court
* Academics speak out in defense of Kadivar
* Iran Jewish group urges justice for spying suspects
* Judiciary calls on moderate minister to tolerate criticism
* Oman denies planning exercises with Iran
* Iranian editor vows to re-open women's paper
* MKO supporters protest in Hague
* Oman says navy exercises with Iran will boost ties
* Iran says it will stage naval exercises with Oman
* Khamenei blasts "disgustingly sick" Western youth
* MKO elects new secretary-general
* Iran says pullout of scholars is U.S. affair
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Friday
September 10, 1999
U.S. Department of State Report:
International Religious Freedom for 1999: Iran
Although the [Iranian] Constitution states that "the investigation
of individuals' beliefs is forbidden" and that "no one may be
molested or taken to task simply for holding a certain belief," the
adherents of religions not specifically protected under the Constitution
do not enjoy freedom of activity. This situation most directly affects
the 300,000 to 350,000 followers of the Baha'i Faith in the country ...
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* U.S. group chides Clinton for lost Iran food sales
WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A leading advocate of U.S. sanctions
reform criticized the Clinton administration on Friday for lost food sales
to Iran. In a statement, the group USA Engage said new rules issued by
the Treasury Department over one month ago have failed to generate any
significant new sales ... FULL
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Thursday
September 9, 1999
* Neshat: The beat goes on
The moderate Neshat newspaper is back on Iran's newsstands, but
under a new name after it was banned just a few days ago. It is now called
Akhbar Eghtesad (Economic News), with an emphasis on economic news.
But it still carries a good amount of political commentary, as well as
the stinging satire of Ebrahim Nabavi. Here are two columns from the first
issue explaining the paper's goals (in Persian):
-- Reza Jalaie-Pour ... Civil
society & the economy
-- Ahmad Safaie-Far ... Words
on our first day
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* New justice chief faces reform battle
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Iran's new justice chief has purged the judiciary
of leading hardliners but legal analysts say he faces an uphill struggle
to fulfil his pledge to pull judges out of politics and refashion the courts
as an independent branch of government. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi,
a little known but scholarly cleric, inherited a judiciary seen by many
Iranians as more interested in furthering the conservatives' political
agenda than in dispensing justice ... FULL
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* Iran Jewish body questions spying charges
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A Jewish community group in Iran has questioned
espionage charges levelled against 13 Iranian Jews arrested for allegedly
spying for Israel, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The daily Entekhab
quoted Tehran's Jewish community council as saying in a statement: ``Spying
requires certain capacities and equipment, a condition not fulfilled by
the accused, according to the knowledge that we have about most of them.''
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* CIA wary on N. Korea, Iran missiles
September 9, 1999, WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the next 15 years, North
Korea and Iran are likely to develop missiles potentially capable of killing
millions of Americans, the CIA said Thursday ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 8, 1999
* Sahabi in court
Sept 7, (Iran News) - Yadollah Sahabi has been summoned to the court
as the accused, in relation to the publication of his letter to the Leader
in Neshat daily. Yadollah Sahabi, a co-founder of Freedom Movement of Iran
(FMI) in early 1960's, in a letter to the Supreme Leader gave him recommendations
on improving the current situation of the country. The letter was published
by Neshat daily Sep. 1.
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* Academic leaders speak out in defense of embattled Iranian scholar
(New York, September 7, 1999, Human Rights Watch) -- In an open letter
today to the new head of the Iranian judiciary, the Human Rights Watch
Academic Freedom Committee called for immediate review of the arrest and
conviction of Mohsen Kadivar. Noting the recent appointment of Seyyed M.H.
Shahroudi, considered a reform-minded legal scholar, to head the judiciary,
Mr. Saunders added: "Now is the time for the judiciary to assert its
independence by re-opening the case and seeing to it that Kadivar gets
a fair trial." ... FULL
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* Iran Jewish group urges justice for spying suspects
TEHRAN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A Jewish community group in Iran has urged
authorities to ensure a fair trial for 13 Iranian Jews arrested on charges
of spying for Israel, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday
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* Judiciary calls on moderate minister to tolerate criticism
TEHRAN, Sept 8 (AFP) - Iran's conservative judiciary on Wednesday called
on moderate Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani to accept criticism, following
the minister's complaint over a misrepresentation of his meeting with the
new judiciary chief ... FULL
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* Oman denies planning exercises with Iran
MUSCAT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Oman said on Wednesday it was not planning
to hold joint sea manoeuvres with Iran, the official Oman News Agency (ONA)
reported. ONA said a defence ministry source denied as baseless press reports
that Oman and Iran were planning joint exercises. "There is no agreement
to hold any such joint exercises," the source said ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
September 7, 1999
* Iranian editor vows to re-open women's paper
September 4, 1999 (The Canberra Times) - The editor of a banned Iranian
women's daily has told The Canberra Times she hopes to re-open her paper.
Faezeh Hashemi, licensee and editor-in chief of Zan (woman" in Farsi),
the first women's daily newspaper in her country, was in Canberra yesterday
to visit the Australian Institute of Sport and the Australian Sports Commission.
She also took a look at how an Australian daily newspaper operates ...
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* MKO supporters protest in Hague
Sept 7, THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Thousands of Iranian refugees
and dissidents marched in The Hague today to denounce Tehran's clerical
regime and rally support for the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Supporters
of the National Council of Resistance of Iran made speeches, chanted and
waved Iranian flags outside the Parliament building before marching through
the streets. Organizers said up to 8,000 protesters took part; police,
who said there was no violence, put the number closer to 3,000 ... FULL
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* Oman says navy exercises with Iran will boost ties
MUSCAT, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Oman said on Tuesday joint sea manoeuvres
planned with Iran would boost relations between the two countries. A spokesman
for Oman's Royal Navy told Reuters that preparations were under way for
the naval exercises that would take place ``soon.'' He did not give a date
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Monday
September 6, 1999
* Banned Iran paper vows new daily
TEHRAN, Sept 6 (AFP) - The editors of a pro-reform Iranian daily closed
by the conservative courts denounced the ban Monday as a political ploy
to silence Iran's reform movement and vowed to start another paper immediately.
Editors from Neshat said Sunday's "illegal" closure, the fourth
time a leading pro-reform paper has been shut down this year, was purposely
engineered by conservatives ahead of February's key parliamentary elections
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* Iran says pullout of scholars is U.S. affair
TEHRAN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Monday the
abrupt pullout of U.S. scholars from Tehran was an American affair that
had nothing to do with official Iranian policy ... FULL
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* MKO elects new secretary-general
BAGHDAD, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The exiled Iranian opposition Mujahideen
Khalq has elected a 33-year-old woman, Beheshteh Shadrou, as its secretary-general
to replace Mhavash Sepehri, a spokesman said on Monday ... FULL TEXT
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* Khamenei blasts "disgustingly sick" Western youth
TEHRAN, Sept 5 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
said the "disgustingly sick" behaviour of Western youth reveals
the West is ill-suited to control the destiny of the world, papers reported
Sunday ... FULL
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* Iran says it will stage naval exercises with Oman
TEHRAN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Iran said it was preparing for joint naval
exercises with Oman as part of its efforts to improve its relations with
Gulf Arab countries ... FULL
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