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* Newly elected women MPs challenge chador
* Dissident case judge repalced
* Accused Jews to have lawyers designated by court
* Iranians allowed to celebrate Chaarshanbeh Soori
* 2,000 workers in fresh protest
* Iranian Jews pick lawyers ahead of spy trial
* Iran judge vows no cover-up of police failings in July unrest
* Belgium "regrets" the impact of Rafsanjani legal case
* Belgian gov. denies involvement in Rafsanjani case
* Real culprits not on trial, Iran police court-martial told
* Moderate Iranian daily suspends publication

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Friday
March 10, 2000

* Mahmudali who?

March 9, 2000

A court in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz has sentenced a prominent ethnic Azeri dissident to six months in prison after finding him guilty of smuggling. Mahmudali Chereghani was arrested last month after running into trouble with the authorities over his calls for more cultural rights for Iran's large ethnic Azeri minority. Although he's not that well-known in his own country, Mr Chereghani has a lot of supporters across the border in the Republic of Azerbaijan where he's become something of a cause celebre. Jenny Norton of the BBC Central Asia and Caucasus Service reports. >>> FULL TEXT

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* Mesbah denounces reformist policies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line cleric lashed out at Iran's reformists today, warning that the government's liberal cultural policies were more dangerous to the nation than a military coup. Ayatollah Mohammad Mesbah Yazdi, whose comments last month prompted a strong media response, said criticism of religious teachings and prominent people in the name of press freedom threatened Iran's Islamic system. >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
March 9, 2000

* Four newly elected women MPs challenge chador as required garb

TEHRAN, March 9 (AFP) - Four Iranian women newly elected to parliament are questioning the need to wear the chador, the black head-to-toe wrap which has been standard garb for female MPs since the 1979 revolution, a Tehran daily reported Thursday. The four women, who won election on the reform ticket in last month's polls, say a scarf concealing their hair and a long coat is sufficent to meet the requirements of Iran's Islamic dress code, the Ham-Miham newspaper said. >>> FULL TEXT

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* Dissident case judge repalced

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The government has replaced the judge and investigators looking into the 1998 murders of five political dissidents, an Iranian newspaper reported Thursday. No reason was given for the decision, the Hamshahri daily said, quoting an official Islamic Republic News Agency report that said the investigation has taken more than a year because of its complexity and ``sabotage.'' >>> FULL TEXT

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* Accused Jews to have lawyers designated by court

TEHRAN, March 9 (AFP) - Thirteen Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel are to have their lawyers appointed for them by the revolutionary tribunal after failing to notify the court of their own choice by the legal deadline, officials said Thursday. "The deadline has passed for the accused to designate their lawyers," judiciary spokesman Hossein Mir Mohammad-Sadeqi told AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
March 8, 2000

* Iranians allowed to celebrate age-old fire festival for first time

TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - Iranians are being allowed to celebrate an age-old fire festival, condemned by the clergy as irreligious, for the first time since the Islamic revolution of 1979, the government daily Ettelaat reported Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* 2,000 Iranian workers in fresh protest over controversial labour law

TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - Some 2,000 disgruntled Iranian workers rallied outside parliament Wednesday in renewed protests against recent legislation enabling employers with fewer than five staff to strip them of social security. The demonstrators, gathered under the flag of workers' groups close to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, accused parliament of having "humiliated the workforce with its anti-worker law.">>> FULL TEXT

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* Iranian Jews pick lawyers ahead of spy trial

TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - At least ten out of 13 Iranian Jews facing trial on charges of spying for Israel and the United States have selected their lawyers, the daily Aftab e-Emruz said Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
March 7, 2000

* Iran judge vows no cover-up of police failings in July unrest

TEHRAN, March 7 (AFP) - A Tehran military court judge vowed Tuesday there would be no cover-up of any wrong-doing by police during the storming of a student dorm last July which sparked the worst unrest here since the aftermath of the 1979 revolution >>> FULL TEXT

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* Belgium "regrets" the impact of Rafsanjani legal case

BRUSSELS, March 7 (AFP) - Belgium "regrets the impact" a Belgian legal case involving Iranian President Rafsanjani has had on bilateral relations, a government spokesman said Tuesday. But it will not interfere in a legal enquiry opening here Tuesday. "Despite what has been written by IRNA (the official Iranian press agency), we do not regret the opening of the case, but rather the impact it has had on bilateral relations," said spokesman, Michel Malherbe."We cannot regret the opening of a legal case, because it is a judicial act." >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
March 6, 2000

* Belgian government denies all involvement in Rafsanjani case

BRUSSELS, March 6 (AFP) - A court action against former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was not the work of the Belgian government, which is intent on restoring healthy relations with Tehran, Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel declared Monday. "The Belgian justice system is independent, so the government has absolutely no part to play" in the criminal investigation, Michel told Belgian radio station RTBF >>> FULL TEXT

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* Real culprits not on trial, Iran police court-martial told

TEHRAN, March 4 (AFP) - The real culprits responsible for a police attack on a student dormitory that sparked off violent unrest in Iran last year were still at large, defence lawyers claimed on the second day of a court martial of 20 police officers here Saturday. "The real proponents of this tragedy continue with business as usual and have engaged in an intimidation campaign against one of the plaintiffs, Gholamreza Mahmoodi", Mohsen Rahami, lawyer for the students, said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Moderate Iranian daily suspends publication

TEHRAN, March 6 (AFP) - The editor of the moderate daily Arya (Aryan), which the courts forced off the news stands for two weeks last January, confirmed Monday that the newspaper had suspended publication until further notice >>> FULL TEXT

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As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

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Missing: Pirouz Davani

A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports that he had been arrested ... GO TO WEB SITE

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