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* Conservatives accuse reformers
* Hardliners demand cancellation of London visit
* Britain denies official apology over
"insult" to Iran
* Ethnic Azeris say 17 injured in Iran demonstration
* Khamenei pardons more than 1,000 prisoners
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* Protesters set fire to buildings in
southwestern Iran
* Election candidate vetting body denies partiality
* Iranian refugee commits suicide
* US welcomes Iranian soccer team
* Reformers dealt election blow
* Khatami asked to ensure fair Iran elections
* Iranian minister to visit Britain next week
* German MPs to visit Iran
* Iran hopes for cooperation with Russia under Putin
* Iran says drug lord killed in clash with troops
* Reformist editor in Teheran court
* New Iran reformist daily hits newsstands
* Parliament puts off debate on tough press law Iran
* Iran group forms Egypt friendship society
* Public hanging at dawn for man who killed Islamic
militiaman
* Constitutional body rejects law increasing its own powers
* Interior ministry rejects 400 candidates for MP elections
* Elite force says officer killed in attack: paper
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Friday
January 7, 2000
* Iran conservatives accuse reformers
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A powerful Iranian hard-line council has accused
reformists of seeking to create tension ahead of key parliamentary polls
next month, Iranian radio reported Thursday. ``Allegations of unconstitutional
measures by the Guardian Council creates tension in the country. The allegations
are false. We are committed to the constitution,'' council spokesman Reza
Ostadi told the radio >>>
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* Hardliners demand cancellation of minister's landmark London visit
TEHRAN, Jan 7 (AFP) - Several hundred hardline students demonstrated
in central Tehran Friday to demand that Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi
cancel a landmark visit to Britain next week because of an "insulting"
article in the London Times. The 1,000 or so protestors who gathered in
Palestine Square after the main weekly Muslim prayers at Tehran University
also demanded the expulsion of the British ambassador and an end to dealings
with oil giant Royal Dutch Shell >>>
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* Britain denies official apology over "insult" to Iran
LONDON, Jan 7 (AFP) - Britain denied Friday that its ambassador to Tehran
had apologised for an alleged insult to Iran by a leading British newspaper,
as reported earlier by the Iranian government. An Iranian government statement,
carried by radio and television, said ambassador, Nick Browne, had offered
"apologies and regrets for this article, particularly for the fact
it offended the feelings of the Iranian people." >>>
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* Ethnic Azeris say 17 injured in Iran demonstration
BAKU, Jan 7 (Reuters) - An Azerbaijan-based group representing ethnic
Azeris from Iran said 17 people were injured when police broke up demonstrations
in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Friday. The report could
not be independently confirmed. Piruz Dilenchy, head of the National
Liberation Movement of Southern Azerbaijan, told Reuters about 3,000 ethnic
Azeris had gathered in two sections of Tabriz on Friday afternoon and were
confronted by security forces >>>
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* Ayatollah Khamenei pardons more than 1,000 prisoners
TEHRAN Jan 7 (AFP) - Iran's supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has
decided to pardon 1,026 prisoners to mark the end of the Muslim fasting
month of Ramadan, state radio said Friday >>>
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Thursday
January 6, 2000
* Protesters set fire to buildings in southwestern Iran: newspaper
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (AFP) - An angry mob set fire to a police station and
government offices in Ramhormoz, southwestern Iran, Thursday, to protest
against inadequate public services, the Kayhan newspaper reported. The
violence broke out after several thousand residents of nearby Haftgol rallied
at the regional government headquarters in Ramhormoz, the paper said
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* Election candidate vetting body denies partiality
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (AFP) - Iran's Council of Guardians, which vets election
candidates, condemned Thursday an attack on it by reformist politicians
who fear it will use its powers to bar moderates from the February polls.
"The Council of Guardians will not yield in the face of orchestrated
political campaigns," spokesman Ayatollah Reza Ostadi said on Radio
Tehran. "Its sole concern is the strict application of the law,"
he added >>>
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* Iranian refugee commits suicide
January 6, 2000 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) -- Press
Release: On January 3, 2000, Reza Afshar, a fifty-year-old Iranian asylum
seeker, committed suicide in protest to the policies of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Islamabad, Pakistan >>> FULL
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Wednesday
January 5, 2000
* US welcomes Iranian soccer team
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday
welcomed a visit by the Iran ian national soccer team, saying it was a
``great example'' of unofficial exchanges Washington is encouraging with
the Islamic state. State Department spokesman James Rubin, speaking to
reporters during Israeli-Syrian peace talks here, confirmed that the United
States had relaxed some immigration controls normally imposed on visiting
Iranians >>>
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* Reformers dealt election blow
TEHRAN, Iran Candidates who did not attend pro-clergy rallies
will be disqualified from Iran's upcoming parliamentary elections, a hard-line
council ruled in an apparent attempt to undercut reformers, newspapers
reported Wednesday. Two "trusted supervisors" will decide whether
candidates took part in the recent rallies to show support for the ruling
Islamic establishment, the reformist Fath newspaper reported >>>
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* Khatami asked to ensure fair Iran elections
TEHRAN, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Iranian reformers, fearing liberal candidates
may be barred from parliamentary elections next month, called on President
Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday to ensure the ballot is fair. The 30 dignitaries,
mainly leaders of leftist Islamist groups, reformist clerics and MPs, voiced
``deep concern'' in an open letter published by newspapers on Wednesday
over new rules imposed by the Guardian Council which could bar all but
the most devoted revolutionaries from running in the polls >>>
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* Iranian minister to visit Britain next week
LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi will
visit London next week on the first official trip to Britain by an Iranian
minister since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, officials said on Wednesday.
Kharrazi is due in Britain on Monday for talks with Foreign Secretary Robin
Cook. He may also meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the officials
said >>>
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* German MPs to visit Iran head of businessman's new trial
TEHRAN, Jan 5 (AFP) - Mmebers of the German parliament are to visit
Iran next week, ahead of a new trial facing German businessman Helmut Hofer,
jailed in Iran for most of the past two years, the official news agency
IRNA said Wednesday. The Bundestag delegation, led by the chairman of the
parliamentary foreign policy committee, Hans Ulrich Klose, will meet Iranian
parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, his deputy Hassan Ruhani and
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi, IRNA said >>>
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* Iran hopes for cooperation with Russia under Putin
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (AFP) - Iran looks forward to further expanding its ties
with Russia under its new acting President Vladimir Putin, said President
Mohammad Khatami said in a message Tuesday congratulating Putin on his
appointment. Khatami's message also expressed the hope that the conflict
in Chechnya, "which has been a cause of worry to all the Muslims in
the world" would be solved peacefully, the official IRNA news agency
reported >>>
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* Iran says drug lord killed in clash with troops
TEHRAN, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Iranian troops have killed a notorious drug
lord in a clash in eastern Iran, a key transit route for drugs smuggled
to Europe from Afghanistan, a senior army official said on Wednesday. The
official said Fazl Ahmad Barikzehi, whom he accused of having led 400 armed
drug smugglers, was killed in recent army operations, the Iranian news
agency IRNA reported. The official did not give the date of the operations
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Tuesday
January 4, 2000
* Reformist editor in Teheran court
Jan 4, (BBC) -- The managing editor of the pro-reform Sobh-e Emrooz
newspaper, Saeed Hajjarian, has appeared in a court in Teheran >>>
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* New Iran reformist daily hits newsstands
TEHRAN, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A new reformist newspaper, headed by a brother
of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, hit the newsstands on Sunday, ahead
of parliamentary elections in February. Publisher Mohammad Reza Khatami
said in an editorial that the daily Mosharekat (Participation) hoped to
boost ``free and legal participation in all areas by all citizens.'' >>>
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* Parliament puts off debate on tough press law Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-led parliament on Tuesday
postponed debate for three months on a bill that would tighten sanctions
against the press, under pressure from reformists. The postponement will
move the debate to after the vital February parliamentary elections in
which supporters of reformist President Mohammad Khatami are hoping to
end the conservative majority in the legislature >>>
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* Iran group forms Egypt friendship society
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (AFP) - Iranian artists, journalists and politicians on
Tuesday announced the formation of a new group aimed at improving ties
with Egypt that have been strained for two decades. Sabah Zangheneh, spokesman
for the new non- governmental Iran-Egypt Friendship Society, said the group
was forming when "a full normalisation of ties between the two countries
is imminent and could come at any moment." >>>
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January 3, 2000
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