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Friday
September 1, 2000
Majlis Speaker meet American Jewish leaders
JERUSALEM (AP) - American Jewish leaders have met with the speaker of
the Iranian parliament, the first such meeting since the Islamic Revolution
in 1979, one of the Jewish leaders said Friday. The meeting took place
in New York on Thursday, said Malcolm Hoenlein, director of the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He said Mehdi Karrubi,
the speaker of the parliament, or Majlis, sought out the Jewish leaders
at a reception during an interparliamentary conference >>>
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* Majlis Speaker meet American Jewish
leaders
* Five arrested as unrest in Khorramabad flares again: paper
* Iran says unrest in provinces over as investigation begins
* Court orders whipping, then death for murder
* Eight injured as unrest erupts again in Khorramabad
* Uneasy Calm Prevails in Iranian City
* Iran jails lawyer over US radio interview
* Iranian illegal immigrants believed drowned in Croatia
* Governor attacked in unrest
* Iran students accuse pro-Khamenei forces of attacking
* Dozens arrested, wounded in Iran clashes over reform
* Intelligence Ministry lauds informer network
* Head of a film & sports newspaper summoned
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Thursday
August 31, 2000
Five arrested as unrest in Khorramabad flares again: paper
TEHRAN, Aug 31 (AFP) - Riots erupted for the seventh straight night
in the western Iranian city of Khoramabad as demonstrators smashed bank
windows and hurled Molotov cocktails, press reports said Thursday. The
Kayhan paper said five people were arrested in the latest troubles in the
city, which has been on edge since two leading critics arrived last Thursday
to address a pro-reform student conference >>>
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Iran says unrest in provinces over as investigation begins
TEHRAN, Aug 31 (AFP) - Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which
is chaired by President Mohammad Khatami, on Thursday sent an investigative
team to the riot-torn western city of Khoramabad, state radio said. The
announcement came as Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi was quoted in the
press saying that the unrest which erupted in the city last week, leaving
one dead and dozens injured, was now firmly under control >>>
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Court orders whipping, then death for murder of Islamic fighter
TEHRAN, Aug 31 (AFP) - An Iranian man will be put to death next week
for murdering a member of the country's volunteer Basiji Islamic militia
during a botched kidnapping, a newspaper reported Thursday. Hamid Heydari
was also sentenced to be whipped before being executed after he stabbed
Basiji fighter Timor Hassan-Zadeh to death last month in the city of Rey,
the Jame-Jam paper said >>>
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Wednesday
August 30, 2000
Eight people injured as unrest erupts again in Khorramabad
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - Iran's western city of Khoramabad erupted in
violence again overnight as rioters clashed with security forces, leaving
eight people injured, press reports said Wednesday. Demonstrators threw
Molotov cocktails Tuesday evening and the unrest continued until elite
police units and anti-riot forces brought the situation under control,
the Kayhan paper said >>>
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Uneasy Calm Prevails in Iranian City
KHORRAMABAD, Iran (AP) - Riot police dispersed a crowd of youths Tuesday
as an uneasy calm settled over this western Iranian city following days
of violence over a meeting of reformist students. Some 20,000 people marched
earlier in the day in the funeral procession of a policeman who was killed
in riots on Sunday. Ardeshir Karami was somehow shot during fighting between
supporters of students from Iran's largest student group, who had come
to Khorramabad for their annual conference, and hard-line vigilantes. Exactly
how he was shot remained unclear >>>
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Iran jails lawyer over US radio interview
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - The defence lawyer for several pro-reform Iranian
newspapers banned earlier this year was arrested in connection with a US
radio interview, the state IRNA news agency said Wednesday. Mohammad-Ali
Jedari-Forouqi was jailed Monday on charges of helping the editor of a
pro-reform journal spread "false allegations" about the Iranian
courts in an interview with US radio network Voice of America (VOA) >>> FULL
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Iranian illegal immigrants believed drowned in attempt to enter Croatia
SARAJEVO, Aug 29 (AFP) - Nine Iranians immigrants attempting to clandestinely
cross into Croatia most likely drowned when their boat capsized on the
river Sava which marks Bosnia's border with Croatia, the UN said Tuesday.
The accident occurred late Monday night near the northern Bosnian Serb
town of Srpski Brod when one of two boats carrying Iranian migrants capsized,
UN spokesman Douglas Coffman told reporters >>>
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Tuesday
August 29, 2000
Governor attacked during funeral for officer killed in unrest
TEHRAN, Aug 29 (AFP) - The governor of northwestern Lorestan province
was attacked by protesters Tuesday during the funeral for a policeman killed
during recent clashes in the province, Iran's official news agency said.
Nurollah Abedi was beaten by a group of demonstrators who surrounded him
before police intervened to take him to safety. There was no word on his
condition, and no arrests were made, it said >>>
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Iran students accuse pro-Khamenei forces of attacking them in riots
TEHRAN, Aug 29 (AFP) - Iran's leading pro-reform student group on Tuesday
accused troops under the control of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
of attacking them during the past few days of bloody riots in the town
of Khoramabad. The violence swirling around a meeting of the student Office
to Consolidate Unity (OCU) from Thursday to Sunday left one person dead
and dozens injured in the worst unrest in Iran in more than a year >>>
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Monday
August 28, 2000
Dozens arrested, wounded in Iran clashes over reform student meeting
TEHRAN, Aug 27 (AFP) - Dozens of people were injured in violent clashes
between reform supporters of President Mohammad Khatami and Islamic hardliners
in the Iranian city of Khoramabad, press reports said on Sunday. The unrest
followed days of protests after two prominent progressives were blocked
last week from addressing a conference of a leading pro-reform student
group holding its annual meeting in the city >>>
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Intelligence Ministry lauds informer network
August 27, 2000 TEHRAN (AP)-- Iran's intelligence minister has revealed,
for the first time, that his ministry has thousands of employees and relies
on hundreds of thousands of informers, Tehran television reported Sunday.
Ali Yunesi also said the ministry was undergoing reforms, but he gave no
other details, according to the broadcast >>>
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Head of a film & sports newspaper summoned to hardline court
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (AFP) - The managing editor of a film and sport newspaper
has been summoned to appear at Tehran's conservative Special Court for
Clergy (SCC), the official IRNA news agency reported Monday. Cleric Ali
Afsahi, the director of the Cinema-Varzesh (cinema and sports) weekly,
has to appear at the court Wednesday where he will be informed of the charges
brought up against him, IRNA said >>>
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