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* Cartoonist freed on bail after court appearance
* 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
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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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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