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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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