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* Reformist wants to see women take
up ministerial posts
* Karbaschi puts new paper on streets
* Jewish candidate expresses hopes for 13 Jews
* Reporters Without Borders calls stop to jamming
* 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
* 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
* 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
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Thursday
February 17, 2000
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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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