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* Election pits old-time politicians against the new reformers
* Karbaschi to launch new daily on eve of elections
* Four standing for sole Jewish seat in Iran parliament
* Reformers overhaul candidate list
* Khatami's brother blasts those behind political tension
* Head of reformist daily hospitalised
* Khatami apologizes to candidates
* Parties gear up for parliamentary elections
* 'Dismal science' in back seat at Iran poll
* 576 candidates disqualified
* Divided reformists agrees to some common candidates
* Iran reformers hit back at conservative cleric
* Culture minister insists he has no plans to quit
* Iranian Jews are Iranian first
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Friday
February 11, 2000
* Fundamentalists attack office of reformist candidate
TEHRAN, Feb 11 (AFP) - Islamic fundamentalists in Iran attacked the
office of a pro-reform candidate for parliament close to President Mohammad
Khatami, a reformist newspaper reported Friday. The office of Ali Tajernia,
who is standing in next Friday's elections from the holy city of Mashhad
in northeastern Iran, was barraged with "incendiary devices,"
the Asr-e-Azadeghan (Era of the Liberated) paper said >>>
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* Election campaign not free and fair, rights group says
PARIS, Feb 11 (AFP) - The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH)
criticized on Friday the conditions under which Iran's legislative election
campaign is taking place >>>
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Thursday
February 10, 2000
* Cartoonist freed on bail after court appearance
TEHRAN, Feb 10 (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper cartoonist held on charges
of insulting a prominent religious conservative was ordered freed on bail
Thursday after he appeared before a judge of the press court, his lawyer
said. Nik Ahangh-Kosar of the reformist newspaper Azad, was remanded in
custody in Evin prison on the orders of Judge Said Mortazavi on February
5 after his cartoons stirred a storm of protests from conservatives
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* Election pits old-time politicians against the new reformers
TEHRAN, Feb 10 (AFP) - Iran's parliamentary election campaign officially
opened on Thursday, with candidates having just a week to woo voters ahead
of one the most important polls here since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Some 290 seats in parliament are up for grabs but the crux of the battle
is between supporters of reformist President Mohammad Khatami and the conservative
majority they are attempting to topple >>>
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* Karbaschi to launch new daily on eve of elections
TEHRAN, Feb 10 (AFP) - The former mayor of Tehran, a close ally of President
Mohammad Khatami who was jailed for corruption, said Thursday he will launch
a new newspaper on the eve of next week's elections. Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
whose tenure as the capital's mayor ended with a prison sentence that other
reformers alleged was a political frame-up, said his new daily would debut
next Thursday, the day before the polls >>>
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* Four standing for sole Jewish seat in Iran parliament
TEHRAN, Feb 10 (AFP) - Four people, including one woman, are running
in next week's elections for the sole Jewish seat in the Iranian parliament,
according to final candidate lists released Thursday >>>
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Wednesday
February 9, 2000
* Reformers overhaul candidate list, tap president's brother
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - Iran's leading pro-reform party on Wednesday overhauled
its slate of candidates for next week's key parliamentary elections, tapping
President Mohammad Khatami's brother to head the list. Just hours after
releasing its candidate list at a Tehran press conference, the Islamic
Iran Participation Front (IIPP) issued a revised slate aimed at capitalising
on Khatami's appeal -- and name recognition >>>
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* Khatami's brother blasts those behind rising political tension
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - The brother of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami,
himself a leading reformist, blasted those trying to boost political tension
throughout Iran Wednesday, nine days before elections and two days after
he was attacked at the hustings. Mohammad-Reza Khatami, who aides said
was stoned by conservatives at an electoral meeting Monday in the provinces,
said he "condemned the attacks from by different pressure groups",
without further explanation >>>
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* Head of Iranian reformist daily hospitalised with "mental
troubles"
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - The director of a reformist daily who was due
to appear in court Wednesday accused of publishing "insulting"
cartoons of a leading cleric has been taken to hospital with "mental
troubles," Tehran court officials said. The lawyer of Mohammad-Reza
Yazdapanah Fadai, director of Azad, gave the court a medical certificate
saying Fadai had gone into Iranmehr hospital for "mental trouble and
depression" on Tuesday >>>
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* Khatami apologizes to candidates
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In a pointed show of solidarity, Iran's moderate
president has apologized to candidates who were disqualified by a hard-line
election body from this month's parliamentary polls, a newspaper reported
Wednesday. The affiliations of the disqualified candidates were not immediately
known, but Iranian moderates have expressed fears that the supervisory
election body, the Guardian Council, would eliminate those who do not fully
endorse the policies of hard-liners among the ruling clergy >>>
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Tuesday
February 8, 2000
* Parties gear up for parliamentary elections
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami Tuesday
called on his key constituency of young people and women to turn out in
force to vote in this month's parliamentary elections, as all parties geared
up for the start of the official campaign in two days' time. "The
elections are the most decisive sign of the people's participation in their
own destiny and in democracy, and that is why women and young people will
play a determining role in the important poll lying ahead of us,"
he told a gathering of women, reported by state radio >>>
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* 'Dismal science' in back seat at Iran poll
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The rough-and-tumble politics of Iran's factional
struggle has pushed key economic issues off the agenda of next week's parliamentary
polls. As a result, many of the most crucial questions that will face the
290 deputies during their four-year terms are getting short shrift from
the more than 6,500 candidates as they campaign for the February 18 contest
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* 576 candidates disqualified
TEHRAN, Iran A hard-line council charged with screening candidates
for the Feb. 18 legislative elections said Tuesday that it has disqualified
576 applicants, Iranian radio reported. The affiliations of the disqualified
candidates were not immediately known. Iranian moderates have expressed
fears that the Guardian Council would eliminate those who do not fully
endorse the policies of hard-liners among the ruling clergy >>>
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Monday
February 7, 2000
* Divided reformist camp agrees to some common candidates for elections
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - Moderate Iranian reformers announced Monday that
they had achieved some common ground with their radical rivals ahead of
a key election battle with conservatives in parliamentary polls later this
month. The Executives of Construction, a moderate grouping established
as a support base for former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, said it
was fielding more than half its 230 candidates for the February 18 polls
in common with the combined reformist coalition >>>
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* Iran reformers hit back at conservative cleric with defamation
action
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - Iran's reformers hit back Monday at a conservative
cleric who is the complainant in a libel prosecution against a leading
cartoonist, demanding that he too be dragged before the courts for slandering
them in his sermons >>>
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* Culture minister insists he has no plans to quit
TEHRAN, Feb 6 (AFP) - Iran's Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani, who
has been the focus of a major protest campaign by religious demonstrators
over a newspaper cartoon, said Sunday he had no plans to step down >>> FULL
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* Iranian Jews are Iranian before they are Jewish, says Jewish MP
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - A prominent Iranian Jew hit out Monday at those
abroad who have seized on the upcoming trial of 13 members of his community
on spying charges as a stick to beat the Islamic Republic of Iran, while
expressing optimism that the accused would be found innocent >>> FULL TEXT
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