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* Apeal to Khatami for news of three imprisoned politicians
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - An Iranian opposition party called on President
Mohammad Khatami Thursday to protect the rights of three of its jailed
leaders, alleging that at least one had been tortured in detention. "Khosro
Seyf, Bahram Namazi and Farzin Mokhbar have been in prison for six months.
There has been no news about their interrogations and their trials,"
the Party of the Iranian People (PIP) said in a statement seen here by
AFP >>>
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* 'Assembly of Experts' warns future MPs not to create crises
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran's powerful Assembly of Experts warned members
of the parliament to be elected next month not to "create crises,"
the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. The assembly met on Wednesday
and issued a statement stressing the primordial role of parliament, which
it said had the means "both of creating and of avoiding crises,"
IRNA said >>>
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* For a change, courts to try a conservative journalist
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran, which has become accustomed to seeing moderate
newspaper editors stand trial, will witness the trial next week of a conservative
publication's chief, a Tehran press court judge said Thursday. Hossein
Shariatmadari will have to defend himself against 27 charges concerning
news published in the Kayhan daily in the past few months. His trial by
jury will be public, the judge told AFP >>>
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Wednesday
January 12, 1999
* Jailed Iran students begin hunger strike - paper
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Several Iranian students jailed for their
alleged role in widespread unrest in July have gone on hunger strike, a
newspaper reported on Wednesday. Among the strikers is 22-year-old Ahmad
Batebi, sentenced to 10 years in prison for engaging in propaganda against
the state, the reformist Sobh-e Emrouz newspaper said >>>
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* Vetting body's rejections of candidates not yet final
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - Would-be candidates for next month's parliamentary
elections who have been rejected by the vetting body which has to approve
all names, can have their cases reconsidered, the head of the interior
ministry's election office said Wednesday. The rejections are not "definitive,"
and have not yet been officially notified to the ministry, Djavad Ghadimi-Zakeri
told the official IRNA news agency. Cases can be reexamined up to January
28, he said >>>
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* Brother of Ayatollah Khamenei condemns rejection of poll candidates
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - The brother of Iran's supreme leader has condemned
the wholesale rejection of reformist candidates for next month's elections
by a vetting body dominated by conservatives, press reports said Wednesday.
"The way in which the candidates were rejected, and the consequences,
are illegal," Hojatoleslam Hadi Khamenei was quoted as telling students
at Tehran's Khajeh Nasireddin Tusi university >>>
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* Intelligence chief backs democratic elections
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iran's powerful intelligence chief has said
the people, not the secret service, should assess candidates for next month's
parliamentary elections and determine the fate of the nation. Intelligence
Minister Ali Yunesi, appointed last February in the wake of the ``mystery
murders'' of dissidents by rogue agents, told Entekhab newspaper his agency
had exercised unprecedented restraint in vetting candidates for the February
18 poll >>>
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Tuesday
January 11, 1999
* President Khatami urged to act over rejection of poll candidates
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Candidates barred from standing in next month's
key parliamentary elections called on reformist President Mohammad Khatami
Tuesday to end his silence over their wholesale rejection by a vetting
body dominated by his conservative opponents. Failure to act against the
disqualification of hundreds of reformist and opposition figures risked
putting an end to the president's efforts to reform Iran's Islamic Republic
and could fatally undermine the regime's popular legitimacy, the candidates
warned >>>
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* Khatami's camp hopeful despite ban on candidates
By GUY DINMORE
Financial Times
January 11, 2000
TEHRAN Iran's conservative-dominated Guardian Council was reported yesterday
to have disqualified dozens of reformist candidates from taking part in
next month's parliamentary elections on political and religious grounds.
But members of the loose coalition backing Mohammad Khatami, the moderate
president, said far fewer of their members had been ruled out than feared,
and they still hoped to overturn the conservative-held majority in the
February 18 polls >>>
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* WAN Protests Prosecution of Iranian Journalist
Paris, 10 January (WAN) -- The World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
has protested against the prosecution of a pro-reform journalist in Iran
and called on President Mohammed Khatami to halt the trial. According to
reports, Journalist Said Hajarian of the pro-reform Sobh-e Emrooz newspaper
appeared in Tehran's Press Court last week, accused of having "disclosed
confidential information," though no further specifics were given
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Monday
January 10, 1999
* Many Khatami allies barred from Iran polls
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A conservative panel has barred prominent
reform candidates close to Iran's president, including dissident cleric
Abdollah Nouri, from next month's parliamentary polls, press reports and
individual candidates said on Monday. An official at the Islamic Iran Participation
Front, President Mohammad Khatami's political faction, told Reuters the
supervisory board had recommended the hardline Council eliminate 90 of
290 prospective contenders on its own national list >>>
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* Iranian minister meets UK's Blair, Cook
LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi met
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday on a landmark visit aimed at
strengthening a cautious rapprochement between London and Iran's reformist
President Mohammad Khatami. Kharrazi, the first Iranian minister to visit
Britain since the 1979 Islamic Revolution which overthrew the Shah, met
Blair for half an hour at his official residence in Downing Street >>>
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* Rafsanjani says duped by secret service
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
was quoted on Monday as saying he had been kept in the dark about certain
operations of the secret service during his tenure, including a case of
arms smuggling. Rafsanjani, who stepped down as president in 1997 after
two terms, was referring to a band of renegade senior intelligence officials
implicated in the murder more than a year ago of several dissidents and
liberal intellectuals >>>
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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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* 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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