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Dec 21-24, 1998 / Azar 28-Dey 4, 1377

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* Karbaschi's lawyer will appeal again
* Tehran mayor sentence reduced

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* Iran local polls to heat up factional rivalries
* Iran to woo foreign funds with guarantees
* Asghar-Zadeh severely beaten
* Stanford surgeons return from Iran
* Argentina frees Iranian in 1992 bomb investigation
* Iran condemns ``criminal'' Israel raid on Lebanon
* Court won't free Karbaschi
* Iran forms panel to probe killings
* Iran eyes agriculture measures amid drought fears
* World press group award for Iran's Sarkuhi
* Shadowy group claims murder of writers
* Khatami pushes liberal reforms
* Struggle over upcoming local council elections
* Iranian clerics protest over arrest
* Total again defies US law on trade with Iran
* Iran and Japan agree on more dialogue
* Iran says U.S. apologised for stray missile
* Iranians begin Ramadan fasting a day late
* Iranian embassy officials injured in Vienna protest
* Iran meets EU talk politics and economics
* Abadan airport closed due to military raids

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Thursday
December 24, 1998

* Karbaschi's lawyer will appeal again

December 24, 1998, TEHRAN, Iran (BBC) - An Iranian appeal court has reduced a prison sentence passed on the mayor of Tehran, a reformist and close ally of the country's president, Mohammed Khatami. Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi, convicted of embezzlement in July, had his sentence cut from five years to two years. Mr Karbaschi's lawyer told the Reuters newsagency that he would pursue a final appeal to the Supreme Court... FULL TEXT ... Also audio report from the BBC's Jim Muir

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* Tehran mayor sentence reduced

December 24, 1998, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian appeals court has reduced the sentence of a former Tehran mayor convicted of corruption from five years to two years in jail, a judiciary statement said today. The court in the Iranian capital also reduced to 10 years from 20 years the period Gholamhossein Karbaschi was banned from assuming public office. Karbaschi's lawyer, Bahman Keshavarz, said his client, who seeks complete exoneration, would protest the decision by the appeals court. ``I do not accept the ruling,'' said Keshavarz, adding that he will protest to the prosecutor general on Saturday ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
December 23, 1998

* Iran local polls to heat up factional rivalries

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Iran's rival factions are gearing up for upcoming municipal polls, the next battleground over the drive for a ``civil society'' by moderate President Mohammad Khatami, who has limited power despite a huge electoral mandate. The municipal elections in February could help tip the balance of power between moderates and conservatives locked in heated rivalry after last year's landslide election of Khatami on a platform of social and political reforms ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran to woo foreign funds with guarantees

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament on Wednesday passed a law that will provide foreign investment guarantees as part of an attempt to jump start the economy, which has been badly hit by the slump in oil prices. Deputies approved the cabinet bill under which Iran's government pledges to refund foreign investments in Iranian free trade zones in case of state takeovers or seizures by the courts, the official news agency IRNA reporter ... FULL TEXT

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* Asghar-Zadeh severely beaten

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - A political activist who helped orchestrate an attack on the former US embassy in Tehran in 1979 was severely beaten by a group of Islamic fundamentalists while delivering a public speech, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Ebrahim Asghar-Zadeh, a former left-wing MP and now a supporter of President Mohammad Khatami, was attacked by the extremists after addressing students at the University of Hamedan, a town southwest of Tehran, on Sunday, the daily Zan (Woman) said ... FULL TEXT

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* Stanford surgeons return from Iran

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 23, 1998--Two Stanford physicians have opened the door to what they hope will be the revival of the once-thriving interchange between academics in the United States and Iran. Dr. Camran Nezhat, clinical professor of surgery and gynecology / obstetrics, and Dr. Mark Vierra, assistant professor of surgery, returned in early December from a two- week visit to the University of Tehran, where they demonstrated advanced techniques in laparoscopic surgery and met with top-ranking university officials ... FULL TEXT

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* Argentina frees Iranian in 1992 bomb investigation

BUENOS AIRES, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Argentine authorities freed an Iranian woman arrested in connection with the 1992 Israeli embassy bombing, but she is still under investigation and may not leave the country, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Nasrin Mokhtari was released from custody on Monday due to lack of evidence against her, the spokeswoman told Reuters ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran condemns ``criminal'' Israel raid on Lebanon

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday condemned as ``criminal'' an Israeli raid which killed a woman and her six children in Lebanon, Iranian state television reported. ``These criminal acts aim to put pressure on the government, people and the heroic resistance of Lebanon and to destabilise this country,'' the television quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi as saying ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
December 22, 1998

* Court won't free Karbaschi

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian court has rejected an appeal by the former mayor of Tehran who was sentenced to five years in jail for corruption. Gholamhossein Karbaschi's appeal was reviewed by three judges, and the ``charges and the cases of conviction remain the same,'' Iran's official news agency reported Tuesday. It quoted judiciary spokesman Fotovat Nasiri-Savadkouhi ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran forms panel to probe killings

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The chief of Iran's hard-line judiciary has ordered the formation of a committee to investigate a spate of dissident killings, Tehran newspapers reported Tuesday. The official, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, said the committee would improve coordination of information and evidence concerning the cases, the Farsi-language Iran and other newspapers reported. No other details were available ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran eyes agriculture measures amid drought fears

TEHRAN, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami called on Tuesday for measures to modernise agriculture and curb consumption as a senior official cautioned about the possibility of a new drought due to low rainfall. Khatami, quoted by the official news agency IRNA, said Iran needed to boost mechanisation and modern technology in agriculture to limit reliance on food imports ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
December 21, 1998

* World press group award for Iran's Sarkuhi

PARIS, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The World Association of Newspapers awarded its 1999 Golden Pen of Freedom award on Monday to exiled Iranian writer Faraj Sarkuhi. The association said Sarkuhi, former editor of the cultural journal Adineh freed from jail in January after serving a 12-month sentence for ``propaganda'' offences, had consistently defended press freedom in Iran ... FULL TEXT

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* Shadowy fundamentalist group claims murder of Iranian writers

TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - A shadowy Islamic fundamentalist group has claimed responsibility for a series of murders of writers and dissidents in Iran in the past month, a newspaper reported Monday. "The revolutionary executions are a warning to all those whose pens are in the service of foreigners and want Iran's return to foreign domination," the Fedayeen (Devotees) of Pure Islam said in a statement published in Khordad daily ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami pushes liberal reforms

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- It's an uphill battle, but President Mohammad Khatami is doggedly pushing through liberal reforms over the opposition of powerful conservative rivals. What's emerging, says Abbas Abdi, editor of the moderate newspaper Salam, is that the country is being run by a special kind of balance. The conservatives challenge Khatami at every turn, but ousting him from office ``isn't doable,'' Abdi says. ``To a certain extent, they stick to their boundaries and don't exceed their limits.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Struggle over upcoming local council elections

Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Arguments between conservatives and moderates rage over who should and shouldn't be allowed to become a candidate for local council elections, due to be help in February. There are several reports in Monday's political section of Hamshahri ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Iranian clerics protest over arrest

Dec 21, (BBC) - Supporters of the moderate Iranian President, Mohammed Khatami, have protested against the arrest of a prominent cleric who is a political ally of the President. The association of combatant clerics, a political group consisting of left wing clerics, said the arrest of Asadollah Bayat was surprising and has raised widespread questions ... FULL TEXT

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* Total again defies US law on trade with Iran

TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - French oil group Total is again openly defying US threats to punish foreign companies doing business with Iran, negotiating new projects with Tehran, one of which involves a vast onshore field. "With 10 percent of the planet's oil reserves and 15 percent of the gas reserves, Iran is central to our development strategy. We reject sidelining this country because of political reasons," Total's Middle East director, Christophe de Margerie, told AFP ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran and Japan agree on more dialogue

Dec 21, (BBC) - Iran and Japan have agreed to step up political dialogue during talks between their foreign ministers in Tokyo but have failed to resolve differences over economic issues. The Japanese news agency said both sides agreed to more frequent contacts at ministerial level ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran says U.S. apologised for stray missile

TEHRAN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday the United States had apologised for a stray missile from air strikes on Iraq which hit an Iranian border city. ``The government of the United States, through the embassy of Switzerland in Tehran, expressed its regret over the landing of a missile in the city of Khorramshahr,'' a foreign ministry statement carried by state-run television said ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranians begin Ramadan fasting a day late

TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Iranians began fasting for the month of Ramadan at dawn on Monday, a day late according to the Islamic lunar calendar and after a number of Arab countries had already begun the dawn-to-dusk fasting. Iranians were obliged to wait until Sunday afternoon to be told by religious authorities that they had seen the new moon, which heralds the fasting month ... FULL TEXT

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Friday
December 18, 1998

* Iranian embassy officials injured in Vienna protest

VIENNA, Dec 18 (AFP) - Two Iranian embassy staff were injured in Vienna Friday in an attack by Tehran opposition activists protesting during talks between an Iranian minister and the EU, the Austrian foreign ministry said. The officials sustained injuries during an attack on cars belonging to the delegation of Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi, meeting here with a troika of European Union officials, said a ministry statement ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran meets EU talk politics and economics

Dec 18, (BBC) - Senior officials from Iran and the European Union have begun talks in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on economic, political and human rights issues. The officials also discussed the recent killings of a number of Iranian writers and opposition figures, suspected to have been carried out by conservative Iranian elements opposed to President Mohammmed Khatami's reforms ... FULL

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* Abadan airport closed due to military raids

TEHRAN, Dec 18 (AFP) - Abadan airport in southwestern Iran near the Iraqi border has been closed because of the US-British military strikes against Iraq, Iranian state television said Friday. Domestic flights to and from Abadan were suspended for at least five days, the television said ... FULL TEXTTEXT

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