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* Bail for suspect in Iranian exile's
murder
* Iran promises careful investigation in spy case
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* One-act play sparks cultural drama
* Khatami says rivals working against freedom
* Rally demands death for Iran's student playwrights
* Fuss fest
* Student play sets off crisis
* Khatami sees 'calculated' plot in new crisis
* Ayatollah Sanei: Women are equal
* Liberal Iran publisher says court verdict biased
* Newspapers help reformers
* Iran said to allow abortion of deformed embryos
* International campaign in defence of Iranian students
* IHRWG protests death sentences for detained students
* Khatami OKs peaceful reform
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Friday
October 1, 1999
* Bail for suspect in Iranian exile's murder
PARIS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - France has released a Frenchman of Iranian
origin, who had been imprisoned for the past seven years and was awaiting
trial in connection with the murder of an Iranian dissident in Paris, judicial
sources said on Friday. The sources insisted the release had nothing to
do with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's expected visit to France at
the end of the month. Khatami cancelled his trip six months ago because
wine was due to be served at a state banquet ... FULL
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* Iran promises careful investigation in spy case
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Iranian officials have promised Austrian
President Thomas Klestil a ``careful investigation'' of espionage charges
against 13 Iranian Jews, Klestil said in a letter released on Thursday.
Klestil, who visited Iran on September 20 and 21, intends to follow the
case personally on the basis of the assurances he received there, he told
the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles in a letter dated Sept. 28
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Thursday
September 30, 1999
* One-act play sparks cultural drama
TEHRAN, Sept. 29, (Washington Post) -It was a one-act satirical play
that never made it to the stage, but it was printed in an obscure university
publication and distributed in photocopies. But because of it, the writer
is in custody, the culture minister is under fire, conservative newspapers
are incensed and President Mohammed Khatemi's policy of freedom of expression
is taking a beating ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 29, 1999
* Khatami says rivals working against freedom
TEHRAN, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami lashed
out on Wednesday against Islamic extremists, accusing them of seeking to
limit freedom and keep society in the dark. Khatami also condemned what
he called efforts by ``foreign-inspired enemies'' to strip Iranian universities
of their religious identity ... FULL
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Tuesday
September 28, 1999
* Rally demands death for Iran's student playwrights
TEHRAN, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Angry demonstrators rallied in central Tehran
on Tuesday to demand death for two student playwrights whose lampoon of
campus conservatives has been condemned as an unforgivable insult to Islam
and touched off a national crisis. Shopkeepers in the holy Shiite city
of Qom, meanwhile, closed the central bazaar, a traditional form of protest
with a long tradition in Iranian history, following a symbolic shutdown
in Tehran on Monday ... FULL
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Monday
September 27, 1999
* Fuss fest
Conservatives are up in arms over an "anti-Islamic" play
News
report on alleged insults to Imam Mahdi in a play published in a student
magazine. Plus responses in Persian from: * Khatami
* Mohajerani
* Nateq
Nuri * Majlis
members * Ayatollahs
* Jannati
* Safaie-far
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* Student play sets off crisis
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A satirical play in a little-known campus
journal has sent shock waves through Iran, threatening President Mohammad
Khatami's reform drive and exposing deep rifts in the ranks of ruling clerics.
The sketch, which invoked one of the holiest figures in Shi'ite Islam to
lampoon campus conservatives, has been universally condemned by clerics,
ministers, MPs and judges as an unforgivable insult to Islamic sanctities
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* Khatami sees 'calculated' plot in new crisis
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami deplored
a satirical student play for insulting Islamic sanctities, but warned the
incident was being exploited as part of a ``calculated design'' to incite
the nation. In remarks to his cabinet late on Sunday, the president condemned
the play, which first appeared last month in a campus journal with a circulation
of less than 200, as an insult to pious believers ... FULL
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* Ayatollah Sanei: Women are equal
Sept 26, (BBC) -- A senior Iranian cleric has declared that women are
completely equal to men in all aspects of political and social life. Ayatollah
Yosef Sanei said there should be nothing to stop a woman in the Islamic
Republic becoming the supreme religious leader or president ... FULL
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* Liberal Iran publisher says court verdict biased
TEHRAN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The publisher of a pro-reform Iranian newspaper,
sentenced to jail on a blasphemy conviction, sharply attacked the verdict
on Sunday as politically motivated and demanded a new, impartial hearing.
(Related photo) ``The court was biased and influenced by a certain political
faction. Their approach was more political than legal, and marked by double
standards,'' Latif Safari, the director of the banned Neshat daily, told
a news conference ... FULL
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* Newspapers help reformers
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The newspapers hawked each morning at every street
corner are the most immediate challenge to Iran's hard-liners, boldly redefining
the limits of free speech and public debate. Since moderate President Mohammad
Khatami took office in August 1997, the first cautious pro-reform writings
have matured into a barrage of critique and comment. Once-unimaginable
subjects, such as alleged corruption and questions about Islam's role in
politics, are picked apart by a swelling number of newspapers ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran said to allow abortion of deformed embryos
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has decided to allow abortions when embryos are deformed, easing restrictions
in place since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, a medical expert was on
Monday quoted as saying. ``We have arranged with the office of the leader
to end pregnancies with deformed embryos with a religious permit,'' a paediatric
surgeon, Salahod-Din Delshad, was quoted as saying by Azad newspaper ...
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