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* Hajjarian improving
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* Student gunman shot Hajjarian: IRNA
* Reformist press hits at news black-out on Hajjarian affair
* Belgium & Ali Akbar Rafsanjani
* Gunmen in Hajjarian shooting identified
* Hajjarian's paper blasts murderous "shadow government"
* Six men arrested in Iran shooting
* Khatami orders speedier inquiry into shooting of Hajjarian
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Friday
March 24, 2000
* Beirut hostage awarded millions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former hostage Terry Anderson was awarded $341 million
from Iran on Friday by a federal judge who said his treatment during his
nearly seven years of captivity in Beirut was ``savage and cruel by any
civilized standards.'' U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered
Iran to pay $24.5 million to Anderson, $10 million to his wife, Madeleine
Bassil, and $6.7 million to their daughter, Sulome. The judge also ordered
the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security to pay the three $300
million in punitive damages.>>>
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Thursday
March 23, 2000
* Hajjarian improving
March 23, (AP) -- CAIRO, Egypt An Iranian reformist shot
at point-blank range in Tehran nearly two weeks ago is breathing on his
own, recognizes friends and relatives and communicates through nods and
eye movements, his doctors were reported as saying Thursday. Saeed Hajjarian,
a Tehran city councilor, publisher and confidant of President Mohammad
Khatami, was shot in the face March 12 by a gunman on a motorcycle. University
chemistry student Saeed Asgar has been arrested and accused of the shooting.
Further details about the suspect or motive have not been released.
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* News during Noruz
Tehran (Iran daily) - Iranian newspapers traditionally close down for
the Noruz holidays. Not this year. Not the reformist papers at least >>>
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Wednesday
March 22, 2000
* Student gunman shot Hajjarian: IRNA
TEHRAN, March 21 (AFP) - The gunman who shot leading Iranian reformer
Said Hajarian is a student at a Tehran university led by a top conservative,
the official IRNA news agency said Tuesday. Citing the head of the investigation,
it named Said Asghar as the gunman responsible for the March 12 shooting
of Hajarian, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami and a leading force
behind Iran's pro-reform movement >>>
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* Reformist press hits at news black-out on Hajjarian affair
TEHRAN, March 22 (AFP) - The Iranian government has imposed a black-out
on news on the assassination attempt against reformist politician Said
Hajarian, two reformist dailies, including Hajarian's own, said Wednesday.
"Official sources have banned the national media from publishing unofficial
news. For this reason today newpapers were unable to publish solid, but
unofficial news," Sobh-e Emruz, Hajarian's paper, said >>> FULL TEXT
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* Belgium & Ali Akbar Rafsanjani
Amnesty International new release: As proceedings before an investigating
judge in Belgium are not public, Amnesty International does not know the
details of the investigation opened against Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, former
Speaker of Parliament and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and
therefore cannot comment on it >>>
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Tuesday
March 21, 2000
* Gunmen in Hajjarian shooting identified
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Intelligence Ministry on Tuesday identified
a university student as the gunman in the attack on a leading Iranian reformist.
Iranian television quoted the official in charge of the investigation as
saying chemistry student Saeed Asgar shot Saeed Hajjarian, a city councilman
and confidant of President Mohammad Khatami, on March 12 >>>
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* Hajjarian's paper blasts murderous "shadow government"
TEHRAN, March 21 (AFP) - Most Iranians believe there is a murderous
"shadow government" that holds the true power in the nation,
said a pro-reform newspaper Tuesday whose chief is fighting for his life
after an assassination attempt. The claim in the Sobh-e-Emruz daily comes
as its director Said Hajarian, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami
and a leader in the reform movement, is still in hospital after being gunned
down in broad daylight last week >>>
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Monday
March 20, 2000
* Six men arrested in Iran shooting
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Six men have been arrested in the shooting of reformist
Saeed Hajjarian, Iran's security agency announced Monday. The agency offered
no information on the suspects' motives. One of the suspects has confessed
to shooting Hajjarian in the face on March 12, according to the Supreme
National Security Council, the nation's top security body >>>
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* Khatami orders speedier inquiry into shooting of Hajjarian
TEHRAN, March 20 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has ordered
police to speed up their investigation into the near-fatal shooting of
a close ally and leading reformist, the official IRNA news agency reported
Monday. It said Khatami issued a directive for a faster inquiry into the
March 12 shooting of Said Hajarian by two gunmen who sped off on a high-powered
motorbike of a type restricted here to government agencies >>> FULL TEXT
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