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Dec 28-31, 1998 / Dey 7-10, 1377

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* Several injured in Tehran clash between protestors, police
* Military court to probe murders of dissidents
* More than 100,000 sign up for local councils

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* Reformist groups join forces for polls
* Liberal dissidents to commemorate Foruhar
* Montazeri's son-in-law released from jail
* Fadaiyan blame Khamenei for murders
* Writers association to be formed, daily
* Iran holds backers of dissident cleric
* 60,000 sign up to run in Iran municipal polls
* Registration begins in Iran for local elections
* Opposition group blames regime for murder
* Montazeri supporters nabbed
* Freedom movement condemns "illegal" arrests
* Iran local polls to heat up factional rivalries
* Asghar-Zadeh severely beaten
* Iran forms panel to probe killings
* Iran meets EU amid concern over killings
* Moin: ignoranceroots of recent killings
* Leftist group calls for U.N. action

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Thursday
December 31, 1998

* Several injured in Tehran clash between protestors, police

TEHRAN, Dec 31 (AFP) - Several people were injured here Thursday during a clash between police and demonstrators protesting against a recent series of murders of Iranian dissidents and intellectuals. Witnesses said the clashes erupted after a memorial service held to mark the 40th day since the fatal stabbing of nationalist leader Daryush Foruhar and his wife. Around 5,000 mourners attended the ceremony at a mosque in central Tehran ... FULL TEXT

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* Military court to probe murders of dissidents

TEHRAN, Dec 31 (AFP) - An Iranian military court is to investigate the recent killings of two writers as well as a nationalist dissident and his wife, the official news agency IRNA reported Thursday. The agency, quoting an unnamed spokesman for the military court, said the general court that had originally taken up the cases sent them to the military tribunal after deciding a special investiagtion was needed. But the spokesman stressed that the cases "have nothing to do with the armed forces or the police." ... FULL TEXT

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* More than 100,000 sign up for local councils

Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Some 110,000 people have signed up as candidates for local council elections, including former interior minister Abdollah Nouri and former oil minister Mohammad Gharazi ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Wednesday
December 30, 1998

* Reformist groups join forces for polls

TEHRAN, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Iran's major reformist political groups supporting President Mohammad Khatami have joined forces against conservative rivals for upcoming municipal council elections, newspapers reported on Wednesday. ``All the groups and individuals who joined hands (in Khatami's presidential campaign in 1997) will be active in this tremendous movement,'' said a statement by 16 centrist and leftist Islamic groups, which was published in newspapers ... FULL TEXT

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* Liberal dissidents to commemorate murdered nationalist leaders

TEHRAN, Dec 30 (AFP) - Around 300 liberal political personalities said Wednesday they will gather at a Tehran mosque on Thursday to commemorate the violent murder of a nationalist leader and his wife last month. The dissidents said in a notice published in moderate Etelaat newspaper that they will meet in Fakhr mosque in northern Tehran to mark the 40th day after the deaths of Daryush Foruhar and his wife, Parvaneh. The couple were stabbed to death in their Tehran home by unidentified intruders on November 22 ... FULL TEXT

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* Montazeri's son-in-law released from jail

TEHRAN, Dec 30 (AFP) - The son-in-law of dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri has been released after spending seven months in jail, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Hadi Hashemi, a close associate of Montazeri, was set free on Tuesday, Sobh-e-Emruz daily said without giving more details ... FULL TEXT

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* Fadaiyan (majority) blames Khamenei for murders

December 23, 1988, (Kar) - The majority faction of the Fadaiyan Khalq organization is blaming Ayatollah Khamenei for the recent wave of political murders in Iran ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Tuesday
December 29, 1998

* Independent writers association to be formed, daily

Tehran, dec. 29, IRNA - almost all formalities have been completed to set up a new, but independent writers association of iran, said a prominent writer, houshang golshiri. In an interview with the english daily 'tehran times' published tuesday, he said, ''a new constitution of the association is in the final stage of preparation, and it will be presented to an interim board of directors for approval.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran holds backers of dissident cleric -magazine

TEHRAN, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have arrested several backers of dissident Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri for protesting against the senior cleric's house arrest, a weekly magazine reported in its latest issue. The moderate weekly Aban said six of Montazeri's seminary students were held for distributing leaflets. Aban said Abbas Ali Fathi, an official at Montazeri's office, was also arrested. It did not elaborate. Another supporter remained in jail after being detained three months ago for handing out pro-Montazeri leaflets, it said. There was no independent confirmation of the arrests ... FULL TEXT

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* Some 60,000 sign up to run in Iran municipal polls

TEHRAN, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Nearly 60,000 candidates have signed up in the first two days of registration for Iran's first municipal council elections set for February 26, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. It quoted election officials as saying 578 women were among those who had put forward their names so far for about 200,000 seats which are at stake. Registration closes on Sunday. A potentially debilitating row over the naming of poll monitors for Tehran was averted when election bodies run by rival conservatives and moderates approved a compromise list, newspapers said ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
December 28, 1998

* Registration begins in Iran for local elections

TEHRAN, Dec 28 (AFP) - Hopefuls began registering on Monday for Iran's first local elections since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, seen by Iranian reformers as a major step towards greater democracy. The landmark vote on February 26 will allow Iranians to elect around 200,000 councilmen and councilwomen in thousands of rural and urban districts throughout the country. The councillors will be responsible for the appointment of around 720 mayors and supervising their activities as well as ensuring public participation in local social, political, economic and cultural affairs ... FULL TEXT

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* Opposition group blames regime for Foruhar's murder

TEHRAN, Dec 28 (AFP) - An Iranian nationalist opposition movement accused the intelligence services on Monday of a role in the murder last month of its leader Daryush Foruhar and his wife. "I explicitly declare that these murders could not have been committed without collaboration from, coordination with and knowledge of a part of the intelligence services," said Bahram Namazi, a member of the Party of the Iranian Nation (PIN)... FULL TEXT

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* Montazeri supporters nabbed

Sunday, December 27, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Eight supporters of a moderate religious leader who challenged the clergy's right to rule Iran have been arrested, the weekly paper Aban reported Sunday. Seven of the supporters of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri were detained for distributing pamphlets calling for his release from house arrest, the paper said. It did not specify why the other was arrested. All eight are clerics, the paper said. It did not say when they were detained ... FULL TEXT

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* Freedom movement condemns "illegal" arrests of dissidents

TEHRAN, Dec 27 (AFP) - A liberal opposition movement criticised on Sunday the "illegal" arrests of dissidents in Iran and called for the immediate release of one of its members in the central city of Esfahan. Iran's Freedom Movement (IFM), an outlawed but tolerated opposition group, demanded the release of Ali-Asqar Gharavi, who was arrested in November ... FULL TEXT

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Friday
December 18, 1998

* 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 TEXT

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* Moin: ignorance, devious thinking roots of recent killings

Qom, Dec. 17, IRNA - Minister of Higher Education Mostafa Moin said on Thursday that the recent atrocities and killings of some the country's writers arise from ignorance and deviative thinking of those who hold no belief in rationality. Addressing a group of top students in the graduation ceremony at Qom academic center, he expressed dismay over the outcome of rampage in society... FULL TEXT

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* Leftist group calls for U.N. action

December 13, 1998 (Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran) - Rah-e Kargar, Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran, has called on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan to take appropriate action to stop the wave of killings in Iran ... FULL TEXT

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Forouhar petition

Petition drive by the Iran National Front, USA, in coordination with Iranian Human Rights Working Group and Democratic Network of Iran

To: The Honorable Mary Robinson
United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland

We are outraged to learn of the brutal and gruesome killing of two prominent opposition leaders in Iran, Mr. Dariush Forouhar and Mrs. Parvaneh Eskandari-Forouhar on Sunday, November22, 1998. We are sending this fax/e-mail to you to ask for your expression of condemnation and outrage against this extra-judicial execution. We are also very concerned about the safety and security of other opposition members in Iran, including Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam who remains in jail.... MORE DETAILS

Bahai Institute of Higher Education shut down

"At the end of September 1998 the Iranian government launched a coordinated attack to shut down the Bahá'í Institute of Higher Education -- also known as the "Open University" -- by orchestrating the arrests of its most prominent professors and staff and looting more than 500 homes where the Institute's activities had been conducted."... FULL TEXT

Feature

Stoning

Video showing a stonings in Iran in 1991. Extremely disturbing. Not recommended ... VIDEO CLIP HERE

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