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* Khamenei: Inquiry must
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* Iran author seeks stay in Norway for security
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* Government under pressure to deepen reform
* Iranian writer seeks asylum in Norway
* Foruhar's children demand international probe
* Secret services badly shaken by role in murders
* U.S. praises Iran murder arrests
* Assailants attached bomb to Iran cleric's car
* Iran state body blocks liberal law on trade zones
* Taleban accuses Iran of expelling refugees
* Arrest of secret agents boosts Khatami
* (AUDIO) "Huge blow" to hardliners
* Judicial official survives assassination attempt
* Iran requiring military training
* Russia tightens export controls
* Low participation mars first local polls
* BBC extends Persian service
* Hardline weekly banned
* Writers can organize - Mohajerani
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Friday
January 8, 1999
* Khamenei: Inquiry must go on
Jan 8, (BBC) - Iran's spiritual leader has said
the investigation into the killings of dissident politicians and intellectuals
should continue. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described the killings as part
of a bigger plot by foreigners. He asked how anyone who cares for the Islamic
Republic could kill harmless opponents. He referred to two politicians
who were stabbed to death, Dariush and Parvaneh Foruhar, as former friends
and later opponents who were harmless ... FULL
TEXT ... ALSO AUDIO
OF KHAMENEI'S SPEECH
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* Iran author seeks stay in Norway for security
OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - An Iranian author, two of whose colleagues were
among a number of dissidents recently killed in Iran, is seeking to stay
in Norway, a Norwegian group for freedom of expression said on Friday.
Mansour Koushan, fearing his life could be at risk if he goes back to Tehran,
``will apply for permanent residence in Norway,'' said Carl Morten Iversen,
head of the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression ... FULL
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Thursday
January 7, 1999
* Government under pressure to deepen reform
TEHRAN, Jan 7 (AFP) - The admission that Iranian intelligence agents
were involved in the murders of dissidents has shocked the nation and provoked
calls for structural reform of the government, notably the secret services.
The revelations Tuesday that renegade agents at the intelligence ministry
were behind the recent murders of several writers and opposition leaders
have led to a public outcry and highlighted the need for institutional
changes and establishing the rule of law ... FULL
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* Iranian writer seeks asylum in Norway
Jan 7, (BBC) - An Iranian writer who went to Norway to attend a conference
on freedom of expression has sought political asylum there. The writer,
Mohammad Ali Kushan, had been invited by the Norwegian Forum for the Freedom
of Speech ... FULL
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* Foruhar's children demand international probe
TEHRAN, Jan 7 (AFP) - The son and daughter of Daryush Foruhar, an Iranian
dissident recently murdered along with his wife, insisted on Thursday that
an international investigation be conducted into the murder of their parents.
"It took the intelligence ministry weeks to admit the truth that was
clear to all from the first day," said Arash and Parastu Foruhar in
a statement faxed to AFP ... FULL
TEXT
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Wednesday
January 6, 1999
* Secret services badly shaken by role in murders
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (AFP) - Revelations of the involvement of intelligence
agents in the murders of dissident intellectuals are seen as a blow to
Iran's dreaded secret services and a potential boost to President Mohammad
Khatami's efforts to carry out reforms. In a stunning admission, the intelligence
ministry said Tuesday that "some renegade, irresponsible and misguided
colleagues" carried out the high-profile kidnappings and killings
of several liberal writers early last month. The announcement was welcomed
by others here as a sign of the ministry's "courage," given its
long tradition of secrecy and repeated complaints that the secret services
have overstepped their mandate and acted above the law ... FULL TEXT
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* U.S. praises Iran murder arrests
Jan 6, (BBC) - The United States has welcomed the arrest in Iran of
intelligence agents said to be responsible for the assassination of several
liberal writers and intellectuals. The arrests were announced on Monday
by the Intelligence Ministry, and were praised by Iranian President Mohammed
Khatami. Supporters of the reformist president are now calling for the
resignation of Intelligence Minister Qoorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi ...
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* Assailants attached bomb to Iran cleric's car
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Iran's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday
that Tuesday's attack on Ali Razini, head of the Tehran judiciary, was
carried out by two people on a motorbike who attached explosives to his
car. In a statement faxed to Reuters in Dubai, the Mujahideen implied it
was responsible for the attack ... FULL
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* Iran state body blocks liberal law on trade zones
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A top Iranian state body on Wednesday blocked
new legislation which would have provided investment guarantees to woo
foreign funds to Iran's free trade zones, the official news agency IRNA
said. It said the Guardian Council, a body of Moslem clerics and lawyers
which vets bills passed by parliament, objected to provisions in the law
allowing majority-owned foreign and private banks and insurance firms in
the trade zones ... FULL
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* Taleban accuses Iran of expelling refugees
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic movement
government accused neighbouring Iran on Wednesday of expelling thousands
of Afghan refugees living there. Six hundred of these refugees arrived
on Wednesday in the southwestern Afghan province of Nimroz, bordering Iran,
the Taleban-controlled Kabul radio said. These refugees were ``forcibly
sent to Afghanistan after thousands of others were expelled from Iran in
recent days,'' said the broadcast monitored in Islamabad ... FULL
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Tuesday
January 5, 1999
* Arrest of secret agents boosts Khatami
TEHRAN, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The admission on Tuesday by Iran's secret
police that its own agents were involved in the murders of dissident intellectuals
marked a stunning victory for President Mohammad Khatami and his campaign
for the rule of law. ``This confirms what many in Iran have long suspected
but no official would say publicly -- that hardline (Islamic) elements
inside the system were involved,'' said one political analyst, who asked
not to be identified ... FULL
TEXT
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* (AUDIO) "Huge blow" to hardliners
BBC Middle East Correspondent Jim Muir says the revelation is a huge
blow to the hardline faction in its current power struggle with the reformers
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* Judicial official survives assassination attempt
tehran, jan. 5, irna - head of tehran province's justice department
hojatoleslam ali razini survived an assassination attempt on his life on
tuesday. the car carrying razini were attacked by armed assailants in one
of tehran's central streets. his general condition is reported satisfactory
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* Iran requiring military training
Tuesday, January 5, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian boys between the
ages of 13 and 18 will now be required to undergo military training courses,
a newspaper reported Tuesday. Under the ``defense readiness'' training
program, boys in junior high will receive one hour of training each week,
while high school students will have to take at least one military training
course, the daily Abrar newspaper quoted Iranian Education Minister Hossein
Mozaffar as saying ... FULL
TEXT
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* Russia tightens export controls
Tuesday, January 5, 1999 MOSCOW (AP) -- President Boris Yeltsin has
tightened government controls over the export of Russian technology that
may be used to develop missiles. Yeltsin amended and broadened the list
of items that will be banned for exports in order to prevent the proliferation
of missile technologies, the presidential press service said Tuesday. It
did not name the items ... FULL
TEXT
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Monday
January 4, 1999
* Low participation mars first local polls
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (Reuters) - More than 325,000 candidates have applied
to run in Iran's first local elections, but low participation in the countryside
and among women threatens to undermine the democratic experiment, Iranian
analysts said. Interior ministry officials told state television on Monday
327,000 candidates had signed up by the deadline on Sunday to run in the
February 26 polls to about 200,000 seats on city, town and village councils
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* BBC extends Persian service
The BBC Persian Service has extended its morning news program to one
hour. For the time being the live
broadcast online only includes the first half hour which can be
heard at:
2:30 GMT
9:30 EST
6:30 PST
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* Hardline weekly banned
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Monday banned a hardline
magazine for insulting a late senior Moslem cleric, and a tabloid which
printed pictures of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Iran's news
agency IRNA reported. It quoted senior Culture Ministry official Issa Saharkhiz
as saying the special press court had issued the ban against the leading
hardline weekly Shalamcheh for accusing the clergyman of having had ties
to the secret police under Iran's late ruler Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
who was deposed by the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
TEXT
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* Writers can organize - Mohajerani
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Writers have a right to set up an association,
says Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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