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* Iran jails five for shooting of reformer
* GC to allow Tehran results stand: paper
* Jewish defendant: It wasn't espionage
* Another reformist newspaper closed
* Iran Jews to escape death penalty for "spying": French lawyer
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May 19, 2000

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Thursday
May 18, 2000

* Tehran election results to be announced in next two days: Guardian Council

TEHRAN, May 18 (AFP) - The final results of February's parliamentary elections in Tehran will be announced Saturday at the latest, the Iranian election watchdog body said Thursday, reported by Iranian state radio. The conservative- dominated Council of Guardians, which has to confirm all election results, said it was responding to an "express request" by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei >>> FULL TEXT

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* US Jews snub Mandela over Iran support

May 18, 2000 (Daily Telegraph) -- NELSON MANDELA has been snubbed by a leading American Jewish organisation because he expressed support for Iran's trial of 13 Jews on spying charges. The 82-year-old former South African president was due to be presented with a medallion marking his support for Israel and his long fight for human rights at a lunch given for him by the American Jewish Committee, an influential lobby group >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
May 17, 2000

* Iran jails five for shooting of reformer

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian court jailed five men Wednesday for up to 15 years for the attempted assassination of leading reformer Saeed Hajjarian, the official news agency IRNA reported. It said the revolutionary court sentenced Saeed Asgar, a chemistry student who shot and seriously wounded Hajjarian in the March attack, to 15 years in jail for endangering national security >>> FULL TEXT

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* GC To Allow Tehran Results Stand: Paper

Tehran, May 17, IRNA -- An unconfirmed report last night said that the Guardian Council had taken a vote on whether to invalidate the election results of the Tehran Constituency, reported the English-language `Iran News' daily on Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Jewish defendant: It wasn't espionage

SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - One of 10 Jewish defendants on trial for spying in Iran testified Wednesday that he had collected military information and photographs for the Israeli state, but did not consider his actions espionage, a defense spokesman said. It was not immediately clear if Javid Bent-Yacoub's admission amounted to a guilty plea or not >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
May 16, 2000

* Another reformist newspaper closed

May 16, (BBC) -- Another reformist newspaper in Tehran has been closed down on the orders of the hardline Iranian judiciary. The newspaper, Ham'mihan, was run by the former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran Jews to escape death penalty for "spying": French lawyer

TEHRAN, May 16 (AFP) - Iranian judicial authorities have assured a French lawyer that none of the 13 Jews currently on trial for allegedly spying for Israel will be sentenced to death, the lawyer told AFP Tuesday. Pierre Dunac, one of two French lawyers granted visas to go to the southern city of Shiraz for the trial, said, "There will be no death penalty. I have been given assurances to this effect. It's a certainty." >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
May 15, 2000

* Guardians Council to decide Tehran's fate this week

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian supervisory council that has threatened to annul election results in the capital said Sunday it would announce the results of its recount this week. The Guardian Council ``decided to announce its decision Thursday after recounting is completed in order to put an end to the waiting of the noble people,'' council head Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said on Tehran radio >>> FULL TEXT

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* Suspects admit passing material to Israel

SHIRAZ, Iran (Reuters) - Two suspects in Iran's Jewish espionage trial admitted Monday to working with Israeli intelligence but denied they were founding members of the alleged spy ring, their lawyers said. Farhad Seleh, a shopkeeper trained as a geologist, and Asher Zadmehr, a university language instructor, separately told the closed session of the Revolutionary Court they had collected information and handed it over to the Jewish state >>> FULL TEXT

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* Lawyers of accused Jews threaten to sue state TV

SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Defense lawyers for 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel threatened to sue ``all those concerned'' on Monday if any more of their clients' confessions were broadcast on television without permission. The latest hearing in the closed-door trial adjourned Monday in the southern city of Shiraz with two more admissions of guilt, said Esmail Naseri, lawyer for three of the defendants and spokesman of the defense team >>> 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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