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Friday
September 8, 2000
Kadivar tells crowd Islam does not restrict freedom
TEHRAN, Sept 7 (AFP) - A cleric who spent 18 months in prison for challenging
religious domination of Iranian politics told a crowd of 5,000 Thursday
that Islam does not restrict freedom. "Freedom is God's greatest gift,"
Mohsen Kadivar said at a ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of the death
of Ayatollah Mahmud Taleqani, an architect of Iran 's 1979 Islamic revolution
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* Kadivar tells crowd Islam does not
restrict freedom
* Authorities urged to help Armenian community
amid exodus
* Majlis to probe attacks
* Annan seeks justice and "traditional Islamic mercy"
for Iranian Jews
* Thousands of US-based Iranians rally against Khatami
* Worrying jump in criminality in Iran
* Majlis to probe attacks
* Annan seeks justice and "traditional Islamic mercy"
for Iranian Jews
* Thousands of US-based Iranians rally against Khatami
* Worrying jump in criminality in Iran
* Iran considers amnesty for exiles
* Iran Freedom movement says students' restraint avoided
disaster
* Iran delays review of alleged spies
* Iran daily retracts report parliament speaker to launch
new paper
* Four Iranians arrested near U.N.
* U.S. blasts China, others for persecution
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Thursday
September 7, 2000
Iranian authorities urged to help Armenian community amid exodus
TEHRAN, Sept 7 (AFP) - An Iranian Armenian leader called late Wednesday
on the authorities of the Islamic republic to assist Iran's Armenian community,
amid a continued exodus from the country. Leon Davidian, who represents
the some 250,000 Armenians in the Iranian parliament, did not go into details
of the community's problems in a speech at the opening of the 33rd Armenian
games in Tehran
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Wednesday
September 6, 2000
Majlis to probe attacks
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's reformist-controlled parliament voted Wednesday
to investigate attacks on a student pro-democracy seminar last month that
led to rioting and the death of a policeman. A majority in the 290-seat
parliament voted in favor of launching an investigation into clashes that
erupted in the western city of Khorramabad when hard-line vigilantes attacked
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Annan seeks justice and "traditional Islamic mercy" for
Iranian Jews
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 6 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan told
Iran's President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday that he hoped 10 Iranian Jews
convicted of spying would receive justice and mercy on appeal, UN officials
said. Annan and Khatami met for 15 minutes with their aides, and then met
for another 15 minutes alone, the officials said >>>
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Thousands of US-based Iranians rally against Khatami
NEW YORK, Sept 6 (AFP) - Thousands of protesters gathered here Wednesday
to denounce the presence of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami at the United
Nations Millennium Summit. The demonstration, organized by the Iranian
opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran, took place on
a small park that New York police had reserved for protests >>>
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Worrying jump in criminality in Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 6 (AFP) - Criminality is rising at an alarming rate in
Iran, where jails are now taking in "an average of one prisoner every
59 seconds," the Iran daily reported Tuesday. "According to figures
gathered in June, our prisons currently hold 147,106 prisoners, of whom
96 percent are men," Mozafar Alvandi, head of the country's prison
information system, said in comments quoted by Iran >>>
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Tuesday
September 5, 2000
Iran considers amnesty for exiles
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A bill that would grant amnesty to Iranians who
fled the country because of anti-government activities or ties to outlawed
political parties is aimed at promoting national reconciliation and attracting
badly needed investments, a lawmaker said Monday. The bill would allow
such Iranians to return without fear of prosecution or punishment, said
Elyas Hazrati, one of 40 lawmakers who signed the bill. Only those who
have used violence against the state are excluded from the amnesty deal
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Iran Freedom movement says students' restraint avoided disaster
TEHRAN, Sept 5 (AFP) - Iran's progressive Islamist opposition Iran Freedom
Movement (IFM) Monday praised the students caught up in last week's disturbances
in the western city of Khorramabad for keeping their cool and "saving
the country from a catastrophe." "The events of Khorramabad,
where hundreds of people were injured, some seriously, are a lesson for
the whole country," and the "trouble makers, the mafia of those
in power which provoked them did not gauge the destructive effects of their
action," the IFM said in a statement sent to AFP >>>
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Iran delays review of alleged spies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian appeals court is delaying for the second
time decisions on its review of the jail terms of 10 Jews convicted of
spying for Israel, state-run radio reported Sunday night, quoting a senior
judiciary official. The second review was apparently delayed for the same
reason as the first: the judges hadn't agreed on whether all the charges
that resulted in convictions constituted crimes, said Hossein Ali Amiri,
the judiciary chief of southern Fars province where the men were tried
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Iran daily retracts report parliament speaker to launch new newspaper
TEHRAN, Sept 5 (AFP) - Iran's government-run daily retracted Tuesday
a report that parliament speaker Mehdi Karubi plans to launch a new reformist
newspaper in the coming days. The paper Iran said someone else was the
founder of Aftab-e-Yazd, adding that it would have no political affiliation
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Four Iranians arrested near U.N.
NEW YORK (AP) - Four Iranians were arrested over the weekend for throwing
yellow paint in separate incidents near the United Nations, where 150 world
leaders are gathering this week for the U.N. Millennium Summit. One incident
involved the president of Iran, police said Monday. It wasn't clear if
the incidents were related, but a spokesman for the National Council of
Resistance of Iran - which bills itself as Iran's parliament-in-exile -
said yellow is ``the color of dismay, the color of disapproval,'' said
Alireza Jararzadeh >>>
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U.S. blasts China, others for persecution
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States, invoking U.N. declarations and
its own tradition of religious freedom, on Tuesday blasted China, Sudan,
Afghanistan and others for persecuting people for their religious faith
and practices. In its second report on how free people are to practice
their beliefs in 194 states, the State Department also rebuked some allies,
including Saudi Arabia, Germany and France >>>
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