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* Reformists battered from all sides
* Rallies in Iran following call by Guards, but turnout
low
* Iranian demonstrators, police clash
* Mohajerani summons newspaper chiefs for meeting
* Iran rejects US remarks about freedom of the press
* Air base remembers men killed on failed Iran hostage
rescue mission
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* Khamenei denounces West, warns domestic
press
* Court summons reformists for "anti-Islamic"
remarks
* Reformists accuse television of trying to stop new parliament
* U.S. worried about challenge to Iranian press
* French media watchdog criticises new Iranian law
* Hakimipour released after questioning on Hajjarian attack
* Merchants defy closure call by conservative association
* Trial of Hajarian attack suspects to be held next week
* Khazali urges reformers' deaths
* Tehran merchants stage closure in backing for Ayatollah
Khamenei
* Iranian television shows embarrassing images for reformists
* Guardian Council delays second round of elections
* Khatami criticised by conservative deputy
* Hard-liners protest against Khatami's reform policy
* Executions decline worldwide, except
in Iran
* Angry protestors block highway over election cancellation
* Iran Claims Confession of Suspect
* Suspected attacker of reformist "escaped to Pakistan"
* Saudi Arabia plans security cooperation accord with
Iran
* Reformist Iranian newspaper says Iran-US ties "inevitable"
* Iran denounces U.S. attempt to fingerprint fencers
* Fifty young protesters arrested in violent clashes
with police
* Iran approves new measures to rein in press
* Revolutionary guards threaten reformers
* Recount ordered in Tehran
* Hardline revolutionary courts chief replaced
* Hajjarian speaks for the first time since being shot
* Iran fencers leave U.S. in fingerprint row
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Friday
April 14, 2000
* Reformists battered from all sides as Iran political tensions mount
TEHRAN, April 20 (AFP) - Supporters of Iran's reformist President Mohammad
Khatami came under increasingly heavy attack Thursday as political tensions
mounted in the country. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei flayed pro-reform
newspapers and a hardline court summoned Khatami aides for questioning,
accusing them of making anti-Islamic statements at a recent conference
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* Rallies in Iran following call by Guards, but turnout low
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranians demonstrated here Friday
to denounce reformist politicians, including allies of President Mohammad
Khatami, following a call from the regime's elite Revolutionary Guards
corps. Similar rallies were held nationwide, notably in the holy city
of Mashhad, but turnout was relatively low for the demonstrations, called
by the Guards as a show of support for supreme leader, or Guide, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei >>>
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* Iranian demonstrators, police clash
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Demonstrators clashed with police Friday and at
least 150 people were arrested in the third day of protests after hard-liners
annulled a reformist's election victory, a local journalist said. ``The
protesters hurled stones at anti-riot police and set one of the police
cars on fire,'' said the journalist from the town of Sarvestan in southern
Fars Province >>>
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* Mohajerani summons newspaper chiefs for meeting
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Iran's culture minister called for a Saturday
meeting of Iranian newspaper chiefs amid mounting pressure on the pro-reform
press, the official IRNA news agency said. Ataollah Mohajerani, a close
ally of President Mohammad Khatami, called for the meeting following strong
criticisms of the reformist press by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Thursday >>>
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* Iran rejects US remarks about freedom of the press
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Iran rejects remarks made by the US State Department
expressing "concern" about attacks on the press by the country's
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the official IRNA news agency reported
Friday. Iran rejects the comments by the State Department, and regards
them as "flagrant interference in Iran's internal affairs," said
foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by IRNA >>> FULL TEXT
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* Air base remembers men killed on failed Iran hostage rescue mission
April 21, 2000, HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AP) - A rose bush has been planted
for each of eight servicemen, including five Hurlburt-based airmen, who
died in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages from the U.S. embassy
in Iran 20 years ago next week. The bushes were ceremoniously placed Thursday
in the ground outside the chapel at this Air Force Base in the Florida
Panhandle as mission veterans and family members of their lost comrades
looked on. A commemorative coin, each with the name of one the deceased
engraved on it, was buried with each rose bush >>>
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Thursday
April 20, 2000
* Khamenei denounces West, warns domestic press
TEHRAN, April 20 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader on Thursday vowed
the country would never submit to U.S. hegemony, denouncing domestic journalists
who he said were doing America's bidding to undermine the Islamic system.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his second major address in a week, lashed out
at globalisation as a pretext for domination by the West. On April 14,
he warned of the dangers of ``American-style'' reforms >>>
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* Court summons reformists for "anti-Islamic" remarks
TEHRAN, April 20 (AFP) - Tehran's revolutionary court has summoned Iranian
reformists for allegedly making anti-Islamic remarks at a recent conference
in Berlin, state radio reported Thursday, quoting an official judiciary
statement. Meanwhile the elite Revolutionary Guards called national demonstrations
for Friday to show "hatred and repugnance" at "the blows
dealt to Islam and the people" at the gathering >>>
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* Reformists accuse television of trying to stop new parliament
TEHRAN, April 19 (AFP) - Iran's main reform party Wednesday accused
the pro-conservative state television service of trying to stop the new
reformist-dominated parliament from meeting by screening a "provocative"
broadcast. The television authority showed late Tuesday what it described
as "anti-Islamic" scenes of a recent Berlin conference attended
by supporters of reformist President Mohammad Khatami >>>
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* U.S. worried about challenge to Iranian press
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was worried
about a threat to the freedom of the press in Iran, where Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denounced domestic journalists who favor reform.
State Department spokesman James Rubin said the Iranian press had played
an important part in political developments and had contributed to a ``lively
political culture'' in Iran >>>
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* French media watchdog criticises new Iranian law
PARIS, April 19 (Reuters) - Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without
Borders (RSF) on Wednesday criticised a new law passed by Iran's conservative
outgoing parliament to rein in the country's liberal press. RSF said it
was alarmed at the state of freedom of the press in Iran just two months
after elections gave reformers a stronger position in the new parliament
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* Hakimipour released after questioning on Hajjarian attack
TEHRAN, April 20 (AFP) - A Tehran town councillor, arrested on April
15 after making comments on the assassination attempt against prominent
reformer Said Hajarian, was released on bail Thursday, Iranian radio reported.
However, the reasons for the detention of Ahmad Hakimi-pur remained unclear
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* Merchants defy closure call by conservative association
TEHRAN, April 20 (AFP) - Tehran bazaar traders defied Thursday a call
from their conservative-dominated association to stage a one-day closure
in support of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the midst
of factional conflict. "They told us to close, but Thursdays are our
best business day, many buyers come from the provinces," an electronics
merchant told AFP >>>
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* Trial of Hajarian attack suspects to be held next week
TEHRAN, April 20 (AFP) - The first hearing in the trial of 10 defendants
accused of planning the assassination of leading reformist Said Hajarian
last month will take place next week. "The proceedings in the file
of the Hajarian assasination attempt will be held in open court on April
25," at Tehran's revolutionary court, Tehran's judiciary announced
in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency >>>
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Wednesday
April 19, 2000
* Khazali urges reformers' deaths
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line cleric urged his followers to kill pro-reform
writers and activists whom he says are undermining Iran's revolutionary
principles, a newspaper reported today. ``It is an obligation to launch
jihad (holy war) once every year, just as it is an obligation to fast one
month a year. If the enemy does not attack you, you should attack them,''
said Khazali, a former member of the hard-line Guardians Council and a
senior cleric at the holy city of Qom >>>
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* Tehran merchants stage closure in backing for Ayatollah Khamenei
TEHRAN, April 19 (AFP) - Tehran's powerful conservative bazaar merchants
are to shut their shops Thursday in a show of support for supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who last week rejected "US-style reform"
in Iran, their association said Wednesday. Some 140 members of the conservative
majority in the outgoing parliament signed a similar petition of support,
and called for reformist politicians who attended a recent conference in
Berlin on Iran to be tried >>>
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* Iranian television shows embarrassing images for reformists
TEHRAN, April 19 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-run television dealt a
blow to the country's reformists late Tuesday by showing aides of President
Mohammad Khatami attacking the Islamic regime at a Berlin conference. A
commentator apologised to viewers for showing "anti-Islamic"
scenes, including a woman dancing with bare arms, and shots of members
of the banned armed opposition group the People's Mujahadeen >>> FULL
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* Guardian Council delays second round of elections
TEHRAN, April 19 (AFP) - Conservative authorities in Iran have declined
to set a date for a second round of parliamentary elections, a full two
months after the landslide win for reformists in the first round, the official
IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. The Council of Guardians, which is
responsible for verifying all election results turned down a proposal by
the interior ministry to hold the vote on April 28, IRNA said >>> FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
April 18, 2000
* Khatami criticised by conservative deputy
TEHRAN, April 18 (AFP) - Iran's factional struggle took a new turn Tuesday,
as an outgoing conservative deputy accused reformist President Mohammad
Khatami of helping the enemies of the regime by his "vague rhetoric."
"The enemies of revolution are profiting from the president's vague
rhetoric and they slander the fundamental values of the Islamic republic,"
Tehran MP Ali Movahedi-Savoji told parliament at the opening of Tuesday's
session >>>
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* Hard-liners protest against Khatami's reform policy
TEHRAN, April 18 (AFP) - Hundreds of hard-liners gathered on Tuesday
at the University of Tehran to protest against the reforms initiated by
Iran's President Mohammad Khatami. The protestors, whose numbers were estimated
by reporters at the scene to be around 1,500, gathered at the entrance
to the university in central Tehran to demand that "the advocates
of American-style reforms be brought to justice." >>>
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* Executions decline worldwide, except in Iran
April 17, (BBC) -- More than 1,800 people were executed in 31 countries
around the world last year - more than half of them in China, according
to Amnesty International. The human rights group says the total number
fell compared with 1998, when it was just over 2,200, but the United States,
Iran and Saudi Arabia all recorded big increases >>>
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* Angry protestors block highway over election cancellation
TEHRAN, April 18 (AFP) - Protestors unhappy at the overturning of election
results blocked traffic on a major highway in southern Iran's Fars province
Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Traffic has been
completely blocked on the Shiraz-Bandar Abbas highway making travel to
the southern regions of Fars province impossible," said Hadi Pajuhesh,
deputy provincial governor in charge of security affairs, cited by IRNA
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* Iran Claims Confession of Suspect
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The main suspect in the attempted assassination
of a leading Iranian reformist has confessed to his crime, the Islamic
Republic News Agency reported Tuesday. ``I talked to the accused myself
and he explicitly confessed to having committed the crime and said he would
repeat his confession in court,'' the agency quoted deputy head of the
judiciary, Hadi Marvi, as saying >>>
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* Suspected attacker of reformist "escaped to Pakistan"
TEHRAN, April 18 (AFP) - A leading suspect in last month's shooting
of an Iranian reformist politician fled to Pakistan three days later aboard
an airliner which mysteriously diverted to Karachi from an internal flight,
the government newspaper Iran reported Tuesday. The daily quoted an unidentified
member of parliament as saying that "the person who got off at Karachi
was called Qassemi and had an active role in the attack" on Said Hajarian
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* Saudi Arabia plans security cooperation accord with Iran
RIYADH, April 18 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is to hold talks with Iran on
a security cooperation accord between the two major powers of the Persian
Gulf, the official SPA news agency reported Tuesday. The Saudi cabinet,
in its weekly meeting chaired by King Fahd, put Interior Minister Prince
Nayef bin Abdel Aziz in charge of contacts with Tehran "on a plan
for a security cooperation accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran >>> FULL
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* Reformist Iranian newspaper says Iran-US ties "inevitable"
TEHRAN, April 18 (AFP) - An Iranian reformist newspaper said Tuesday
that diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States were inevitable,
in an unprecedented front page commentary. The English-language Iran News,
which is much read by foreign diplomats and other expatriates, said both
sides needed to renew ties broken off in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution,
for political, geographical and economic reasons >>>
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* Iran denounces U.S. attempt to fingerprint fencers
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran Tuesday denounced the United States for seeking
to fingerprint visiting Iranian fencers, a move which prompted the athletes
to pull out of a tournament in the United States. But the United States
said the fencers knew in advance they would have to give fingerprints and
said a request for a waiver was received but too late >>>
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Monday
April 17, 2000
* Fifty young protesters arrested in violent clashes with police
TEHRAN, April 17 (AFP) - Fifty young people were arrested in the northern
city of Rasht during three days of violent clashes with the Islamic militia
and the police, the police said Monday. Uneasy calm was restored to the
city by Monday as police officials and representatives of Iran's supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, began investigating the cause of the incidents
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* Iran approves new measures to rein in press
TEHRAN, April 17 (Reuters) - Iran's conservative outgoing parliament
passed new measures on Monday to rein in the liberal press, whose influence
is increasing in the Islamic country. The new measures, part of a series
of amendments to the press law, came as Iran's electoral watchdog nullified
parliamentary poll results in several regions, drawing criticism from reformers
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* Revolutionary guards threaten reformers
TEHRAN, Iran An elite military wing in Iran warned pro-reform
leaders and writers Sunday that any attempt to undermine the country's
Islamic ideology would be met with "Islamic violence." The strongly
worded statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps conforms to
an increasingly strident tone taken by hard-liners against reformists who
swept parliamentary elections in February >>>
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* Recount ordered in Tehran
April 17, (BBC) -- Another recount has been ordered on some of the returns
from the Tehran constituency following the general elections in Iran two
months ago. There are 30 seats at stake in Tehran and regardless of the
outcome of the recount, it is clear that virtually all of them have been
taken by reformists >>>
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* Hardline revolutionary courts chief replaced
TEHRAN, April 17 (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary chief Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi
has removed a renowned hardliner from the head of the country's feared
Revolutionary Courts, the official IRNA news agency said on Monday. Ali
Mobasheri, a former judge at Tehran's Court of Appeals, has been named
the new chief judge of the Revolutionary Courts, the agency said >>>
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* Hajjarian speaks for the first time since being shot
TEHRAN, April 16 (AFP) - Iranian reformist Said Hajarian was able to
speak on Sunday for the first time since he was shot and gravely wounded
last month outside the city council office in Tehran, the official news
agency IRNA reported. "After today's examination we are confident
that he has no speech problems and will be able to communicate his needs
first using words and eventually full sentences," Mohammad Ghodsi,
one of Hajarian's doctors, said >>>
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* Iran fencers leave U.S. in fingerprint row
TEHRAN, April 16 (Reuters) - Iran's junior fencing team pulled out of
the world championships in the United States and were on their way home
after immigration officials sought to fingerprint all team members, the
official IRNA news agency said on Sunday >>>
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