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* Khatami's reformist brother leads
Tehran race
* Iran awaits poll results as reformists see victory
* Reformists favored in Iranian vote
* Khatami congratulates people on large election turnout
* Albright "interested" in large voter turnout
in election
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* Iran goes to the polls for Khatami's
"day of destiny"
* Khatami urges big Iran vote turnout
* Even in conservative bastion, some residents to vote pro-reform
* Reformers confident before Friday poll
* Leading reformist wants to see women take up ministerial
posts
* Karbaschi puts new paper on streets
* President calls on Iranians to vote to help him
* Final campaign day in Iran
* Iran Holy City Doubles as Hotbed of Reform Politics
* Albright says Iranian reformers gaining popularity
* Jewish MP candidate expresses hopes for
jailed Jews
* Calls for Iran to stop jamming broadcasts
* Hashemi "Most Reasonable" on Iran-US Relations
* Opposition group calls for massive turnout
in elections
* Reform in Iran now unstoppable says Khatami's brother
* One killed in new brawl at an election meeting in Bandar
Abbas
* BBC radio programmes 'jammed' in Iran
* EU voices dismay at attacks in Iran
* Bailed Iranian Jew swears it was a misunderstanding
* Ex-hostage files lawsuit against Iran
* Clinton says US seeking partnership with Iran
* Iran candidate seeks U.S. talks
* Thousands of pro-reform students boo mention of Rafsanjani
* Key reformers risk radicals' anger by backing Rafsanjani
* Iran nixes decision on candidates
* Minority candidate wins first-ever backing of mainstream
party
* U.S. blasts Iran in Baha'i case
* Bomb attack at house of Iran's ex-intelligence chief:
paper
* Reform paper back on newsstands
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Friday
February 18, 2000
* Khatami's reformist brother leads Tehran race
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Khatami, who heads the reformist
list in Tehran, is leading the race in Tehran, and will be elected to parliament
"in the first round" according to an estimate given by the interior
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* Iran awaits poll results as reformists see victory
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians awaited the results of crucial parliamentary
elections amid claims by reformists close to President Mohammad Khatami
that they were headed for victory over conservative rivals. Officials
of the Islamic Iran Participation Front said their own rough exit polls
in Tehran after Friday's elections had found strong support for reformers
from a big turnout >>>
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* Reformists favored in Iranian vote
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's parliament election today was expected to
lift reformists over conservatives who want Iran to stick to the ideals
of the two-decade-old Islamic revolution. A strong reformist showing would
strengthen President Mohammad Khatami in his campaign for individual freedoms
and rule of law >>>
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* Khatami congratulates people on large election turnout
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Reformist Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
congratulated the Iranian people Friday for turning out in huge numbers
to vote in parliamentary elections, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Initial official figures put the turnout at a record 75 percent >>> FULL
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* Albright "interested" in large voter turnout in election
ZAGREB, Feb 18 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said
the large voter turnout in Iran's parliamentary elections Friday "interested"
her, but she would not comment on claims by reformers that they were heading
for a sweeping victory >>>
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Thursday
February 17, 2000
* Iran goes to the polls for Khatami's "day of destiny"
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Millions of Iranians will take to the ballot
box to elect a new parliament Friday in what President Mohammad Khatami
is calling a "day of destiny." Facing a crucial juncture in his
presidency, Khatami has made no secret of his desire to overturn the conservative
majority in the legislature which has hampered his ambitious programme
of liberalising reforms >>>
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* Khatami urges big Iran vote turnout
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president has urged his supporters to turn
out in large numbers for Friday elections in a drive to end the domination
of parliament by hardliners who have hampered his campaign for social and
political reform. Opponents to President Mohammad Khatami's liberal reforms
called on voters to cast ballots for conservative candidates to uphold
the virtues of Islam, which now dictate nearly every aspect of Iranian
life >>>
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* Even in conservative bastion, some residents to vote pro-reform
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Iranians go to the ballot box Friday to elect
a new parliament in what is being touted as a pivotal battle between reformers
and their opponents, yet many here don't see much difference politically.
"To a great extent it's like choosing between two kinds of cola,"
says political analyst Khosro Abedi. "There's not a big difference
between many of the candidates >>>
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* Reformers confident before Friday poll
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's reformers were confident on Thursday of victory
in parliamentary elections as campaigning was suspended for a mandatory
24-hour ``quiet period'' before voting begins. Friday's race for 290 seats
in the expanded parliament is seen as a referendum on President Mohammad
Khatami's reforms aimed at creating a civil society within Iran's Islamic
system >>>
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* Leading reformist wants to see women take up ministerial posts
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Tehran's leading reformist candidate in this
week's parliamentary elections, Mohammad-Reza Khatami, said on Thursday
he was in favour of women taking up ministerial positions in the next government.
"There is already a woman deputy minister in the (Islamic) republic",
Massuneh Ebtekar in the environment ministry, President Mohammad Khatami's
brother said in a press conference shortly before the official end of campaigning
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* Karbaschi puts new paper on streets
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - A new daily established by the capital's former
mayor, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, hit the streets of Iran Thursday, on the
eve of crucial parliamentary elections. "Who will the people vote
for tomorrow?" read the banner headline of Ham-Mihan (Compatriot),
leaning clearly towards support of the moderate centrists of the Executives
of Construction party, which Karbaschi heads >>>
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Wednesday
February 16, 2000
* President calls on Iranians to vote to help him
TEHRAN, Feb 16 (AFP) - Pro-reform President Mohammad Khatami called
on all Iranians to vote in parliamentary elections Friday to help him and
his government carry out their goals. In a broadcast message Wednesday,
Khatami urged "men, women and above all, young people," to vote,
saying Friday is a "day of destiny." >>>
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* Final campaign day in Iran
Feb 16, (BBC) -- Campaigning has entered its last day in Iran ahead
of Friday's crucial legislative elections. Thousands of young people gathered
on Tuesday in central Tehran for a rally by the centrist Executives of
Construction party that was part pop concert, part political meeting
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* Iran Holy City Doubles as Hotbed of Reform Politics
QUM, Iran, Feb. 15 (NY Times) -- In this most devout of Iranian cities,
a battle to emancipate the nation's rigidly controlled political life is
being waged by a stern black-turbaned cleric with impeccable Islamic credentials.
Operating from a dingy converted photography studio in the center of town,
Ayatollah Sayed Mohsen Musavi Tabrizi heads a list of reform candidates
for Parliament. Many of his competitors are his fellow Qum clerics, who
are campaigning for the Feb. 18 elections on a platform of calling for
purging the country of "deviant thoughts" and Western influence
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* Albright says Iranian reformers gaining popularity
WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
said Wednesday she believed moderate Iranian reformers were enjoying an
upsurge in popularity ahead of the Islamic republic's parliamentary elections
this week >>>
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* Jewish parliamentary candidate expresses hopes for 13 Iranian Jews
TEHRAN, Feb 16 (AFP) - Hilda Rabi-Zadeh, a Jewish candidate in Iran's
upcoming legislative elections and a teacher from Shiraz, told AFP Wednesday
she hoped to see the early release of 13 Jews, shortly to go on trial in
the southern city for spying. "We have complete confidence in the
Iranian courts, because we are sure that justice is the same for all,"
she said on a short visit to Tehran. "The courts are not interested
in knowing from which minority the accused come. We are full of hope,"
she said >>>
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* Reporters Without Borders calls for Iran to stop jamming broadcasts
NICOSIA, Feb 16 (AFP) - The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders
protested Wednesday against Iran's jamming of Western radio stations' Persian-language
programs ahead of Iranian legislative elections >>>
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Tuesday
February 15, 2000
* Hashemi "Most Reasonable" on Iran-US Relations
TEHRAN, February 15 (Iran Focus) - Faezeh Hashemi spells out specific
steps that the United States should take in order for Iran to agree to
official dialogue. Asked to comment on some Western analysts belief that
should her father, former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, become the
next Majlis speaker, prospects for Iran-US relations would improve Hashemi
said: "No matter where Mr Hashemi is, you can be sure that he would
do what is most reasonable." >>>
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* Opposition group calls for massive turnout in elections
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - The liberal opposition Iran Freedom Movement,
whose candidates have been barred once again from standing in Friday's
general elections, called Tuesday for a massive turnout in the polls. "While
continuing to protest against the wholesale rejection of members and supporters
of liberal forces, we call on the population to go to the polls en masse
and vote in favour of political openness," the banned but tolerated
IFM said in a statement >>>
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* Reform in Iran now unstoppable says Khatami's brother
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - The brother of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami,
running his first-ever campaign for this week's key parliament elections,
vowed Tuesday that his brother's reforms were unstoppable. "Reform
is indispensable and irreversible," said Mohammad-Reza Khatami, who
has emerged as the standard-bearer of the pro-reform movement behind his
brother. "Nobody can stop it." >>>
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* One killed in new brawl at an election meeting in Bandar Abbas
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - An Iranian was stabbed to death at an election
rally staged by a reformist party in the port city of Bandar Abbas, press
reports said Tuesday >>>
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* BBC radio programmes 'jammed' in Iran
LONDON, Feb 15 (AFP) - The BBC World Service is accusing the Iranian
authorities of jamming some of its Persian language programmes in Iran
ahead of Friday's legislative elections. Farsi radio Director Bakir Moin,
pointed the finger at "certain conservative forces" for interfering
with the BBC's programmes since the beginning of February and making them
inaudible or running a different radio station on the BBC's wavelength
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* EU voices dismay at attacks in Iran
LISBON, Feb 15 (AFP) - The leadership of the European Union, which is
currently held by Portugal, expressed dismay Tuesday over a recent mortar
attack Iran that Tehran charges was carried out by Iraqi-backed rebels.
"The EU pofoundly regrets the recent mortar attack in Tehran, as well
as the deaths and injuries caused by this act of violence," read a
statement issued by the Portuguese presidency >>>
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* Bailed Iranian Jew on spy charges swears it was a misunderstanding
SHIRAZ, Iran, Feb 13 (AFP) - Visibly upset by his ordeal before the
Iranian courts, Omid Teflin, one of 13 Iranian Jews facing a possible death
sentence on charges of spying for Israel and the United States, swears
it was just a misunderstanding >>>
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* Ex-hostage files lawsuit against Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge is gathering evidence in a $100 million
lawsuit filed by former hostage Terry Anderson against the Iranian government.
Anderson's case is being heard as an effort builds in Congress to make
it easier for victims of state-sponsored terrorism to collect such judgments
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Monday
February 14, 2000
* Clinton says US seeking partnership with Iran
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (AFP) - US President Bill Clinton said Monday the
United States was seeking a "constructive partnership" with Iran
and that he was following with interest the election campaign there. He
said Washington was watching with interest as Iranians prepare to vote
in parliamentary elections on Friday. He said he hoped reformers would
not be hurt by their desire to open dialogue with Washington. "I think
it's important that the genuine reformers there not be in effect weakened
because of their willingness to at least talk to us," he said >>> FULL
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* Iran candidate seeks U.S. talks
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - At the height of an election campaign pitting moderates
against anti-U.S. hard-liners, a leading reformist candidate has called
for talks between Iran and the United States after more than two decades
of estrangement. ``The two countries should sit and make decisions on the
basis of their national interests and this will happen,'' candidate Ahmad
Bourqani was quoted as saying by the daily Iran Vij on Sunday >>>
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* Thousands of pro-reform students boo mention of Rafsanjani
TEHRAN, Feb 13 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranian reformers Sunday chanted
slogans against former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a longtime moderate
ally who has hitched his wagon to the star of their conservative opponents
in parliamentary elections this week. "We hate Hashemi," and
"The students have woken up," and chanted around 6,000 pro-reform
students gathered in the capital's Shirudi stadium for a rally organized
by the leftist Islamic Iran Participation Front >>>
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* Key reformers risk radicals' anger by backing Rafsanjani
TEHRAN, Feb 14 (AFP) - Key reformist allies of President Mohammad Khatami
risked the wrath of his more radical supporters Monday to give their backing
to the parliamentary election campaign of his moderate predecessor Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani. Liberal Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani and former
Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi both turned out to back Rafsanjani
at a Tehran press conference, even though the former president's decision
to stand with conservative support has sparked the fury of many radical
reformers >>>
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* Iran nixes decision on candidates
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Interior Ministry has rejected a hard-line
council's decision to disqualify more candidates ahead of this week's legislative
elections, calling the decision illegal, a newspaper reported Monday. ``The
names of nominees who have been illegally barred from contesting the elections
will be included in the lists of candidates for whom voters can vote,''
Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari was quoted as saying by the daily
Hamshahri >>>
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* Minority candidate wins first-ever backing of mainstream party
TEHRAN, Feb 14 (AFP) - For the first time since Iran's 1979 Islamic
revolution, a candidate for one of the five parliament seats set aside
for minority groups has won the backing of a mainstream party. The leading
pro-reform party behind President Mohammad Khatami, the Islamic Iran Participation
Front (IIPF), has selected an Armenian candidate for its official list
of hopefuls in Friday's vote, Armenian sources said >>>
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* U.S. blasts Iran in Baha'i case
WASHINGTON The Clinton administration criticized Iran on
Friday for sentencing to death three Baha'i men who the White House said
were condemned because of their religious faith >>>
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* Bomb attack at house of Iran's ex-intelligence chief: paper
TEHRAN, Feb 14 (AFP) - A bomb attack rocked the home of former Iranian
intelligence chief Ali Fallahian, who is a conservative candidate in this
week's parliamentary elections, overnight Sunday, a newspaper said here
Monday >>>
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* Reform paper back on newsstands
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A newspaper returned to newsstands Saturday after
a self-imposed weeklong suspension meant to calm anger generated by its
political cartoons satirizing a cleric. Azad newspaper published cartoons
last month that depicted hard-line cleric Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi as a crocodile
and a fat thug, sparking three days of protests. The reformist newspaper
apologized, saying the cartoons were not intended to be offensive >>>
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