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* Khatami calls on Revolutionary Guards
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* Reformer summoned to court
* Hajjarian could be flown to Germany for treatment
* Relatives of missing Iranians seek Lebanon help
* Reformers stepping up "shadow government"
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* Reformers say conservatives blocking inquiry
* Suspects in Hajarian murder bid to face special court
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March 30, 2000
* Human rights reform in Iran an irreversible trend: UN
GENEVA, March 30 (AFP) - Reform of Iran's human rights situation is
an irreversible trend and is expected to pick up speed, while a sense of
accountability is also emerging, a UN rapporteur said Thursday. But resistance
to change in Iran still exists, a fact made clear by press reports, in
themselves a reflection of freedom of expression, special representative
Maurice Danby Copithorne told journalists >>>
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* Khatami's brother summoned by press court
TEHRAN, March 30 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Khatami, brother of the Iranian
president and publisher of the reformist daily Mosharekat (Participation),
was summoned Thursday to appear before the country's press court, IRNA
reported. Khatami has been named as a defendant in a "private defamation
and libel suit," and is to stand trial "next week, perhaps later
next month," the official news agency said without further comment
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Wednesday
March 22, 2000
* Khatami calls on Revolutionary Guards to maintain security in Iran
TEHRAN, March 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
called on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, or Pasdaran, to fight against
threats to the country's security, the official IRNA agency reported. His
latest comments came just days after he made a similar appeal to the country's
intelligence ministry, and as other reformist leaders continued to allege
a conservative conspiracy against them >>>
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* Reformer summoned to court over "shadow government" charges
TEHRAN, March 29 (AFP) - A leading activist in the Iranian reform movements
has been summoned to appear before Tehran's revolutionary court over charges
that the nation is being run by a bloodthirsty "shadow government",
press reports said Wednesday. Journalist Emadeddin Baghi has alleged that
a murky network of secret agents is operating inside the police, intelligence
services, state media and the elite Revolutionary Guards, functioning as
a parallel power that controls the Islamic republic >>>
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Tuesday
March 28, 2000
* Hajjarian could be flown to Germany for treatment
TEHRAN, March 28 (AFP) - Doctors treating the shot reformist politician
Said Hajarian carried out a second successful operation, but their patient
may be flown to Germany for further treatment, the press reported Tuesday.
Hajarian, who was gunned down in a Tehran street earlier this month, underwent
a stomach operation, newspapers reported, citing a statement issued by
his doctors >>>
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* Relatives of missing Iranians seek Lebanon help
BEIRUT, March 28 (AFP) - Family members of four Iranians kidnapped in
Lebanon in 1982 Tuesday asked Prime Minister Salim Hoss to obtain information
on the fate of their lost relatives, a Lebanese official said. They met
Hoss at his private residence in the presence of the charge d'affaires
at the Iranian embassy in Beirut Mohammad Mohtadi >>>
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Monday
March 27, 2000
* Reformers stepping up charges that "shadow government"
in control
TEHRAN, March 27 (AFP) - Iranian reformers behind President Mohammad
Khatami are mounting charges that the nation is being run by a bloodthirsty
"shadow government" after an attempt on the life of a close Khatami
ally. They say a murky network of secret agents is operating inside the
police, intelligence services, state media and the elite Revolutionary
Guards, functioning as a parallel power that controls the Islamic republic
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* Reformers say conservatives blocking inquiry into shooting
TEHRAN, March 26 (AFP) - Iranian reformers on Sunday renewed accusations
that the regime's conservatives are trying to cover up the investigation
into the assassination attempt on a leading pro-reform activist. Mohammad-Reza
Khatami, head of the largest reform party and brother of President Mohammad
Khatami, also rejected charges that reformers were linked to the shooting
of Said Hajarian, still fighting for his life in a Tehran hospital >>> FULL
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* Suspects in Hajarian murder bid to face special Iranian court
TEHRAN, March 25 (AFP) - The alleged attacker of Iranian reformist Said
Hajarian and five people accused of helping him will be tried before a
special Islamic court, Iranian state radio reported Saturday. "It
is a special judge and a special court that have been appointed to judge
the authors of this attack," said the report, referring to an exchange
of letters on the matter between the senior court officials. The report
did not say when the trial would take place >>>
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