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* Rafsanjani appeals
for factional truce
* Hard-line group threatens to kill dissident
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* Iran to jail, flog militants for beating officials
* Jannati strongly denies he tried to undermine Khatami
* MPs demand apology from state television
* Women's health concerns
* 10 arrested for murders of dissidents in Iran
* Iran intelligence cief faulted
* Councils: 326888 men & 7251 women sign
* Montazeri wants secret police purged
* Factions debate minister's fate after murders
* Frightening reassurances in Iran
* Majlis rejects amendment to elections laws
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Friday
January 15, 1999
* Rafsanjani appeals for factional truce
TEHRAN, Jan 15 (AFP) - Former Iranian president
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani pleaded with rival political factions on Friday
to call a truce in their bitter quarrel over a recent spate of dissident
murders. "None of you will benefit from this dispute. Our being at
each other's throats has pleased the enemy and prompted them to raise questions
about our regime and the (1979 Islamic) revolution," Rafsanjani said
in a sermon at weekly Moslem prayers at Tehran University ... FULL TEXT
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* Hard-line group threatens to kill dissident
Jan 15, 1999, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) An Iranian militant group has threatened
to kill the editor-in-chief of a liberal magazine, the publication's owner
said in a statement. Reza Alijani, editor-in-chief of the monthly Iran
Farda, received two death threats in the past few days, magazine owner
Ezatollah Sahabi said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press late
Thursday ... FULL
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Thursday
January 14, 1999
* Iran to jail, flog militants for beating officials
TEHRAN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - An Iranian court has condemned three militants
to lashings and jail terms of up to 18 months for assaulting members of
moderate President Mohammad Khatami's cabinet, a newspaper reported on
Thursday. The daily Iran said the court sentenced Amir Farshad Ebrahimi
to an 18-month term and 40 lashes in connection with the attack by a group
of hardliners on liberal Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Ataollah
Mohajerani and then Vice- President Abdollah Nouri at a public event in
September. Kiyanoush Mozaffari and Babak Shahrestani were each given a
six-month jail sentence and 20 lashes for the attack in which Mohajerani
was reported to have been slightly injured, said the newspaper, which is
published by Iran's official news agency IRNA ... FULL
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* Jannati strongly denies he tried to undermine Khatami
Tehran, Jan 14, IRNA - Ayatollah ahmad jannati, secretary of the council
of guardians, thursday denied foreign media reports that he had travelled
to qom to obtain the consent of senior religious leaders of the holy city,
to declare president seyed mohammad khatami incompetent ... FULL TEXT
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Wednesday
January 13, 1999
* MPs demand apology from state television
Jan 13 (BBC) - Nearly one third of the deputies in the Iranian parliament
have called on the management of the state-run Iranian television to apologise
to the people and the President for airing a programme connected to the
recent killings ... FULL
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* Health concerns over lack of women's physical activities
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Lack of sports and physical activities is causing
health concerns young women. Major feature in Hamshahri ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Tuesday
January 12, 1999
* 10 arrested for murders of dissidents in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - Ten people have been arrested in connection with
the murders of intellectuals and dissidents in Iran in which the intelligence
ministry has been implicated, a committee probing the killings said Tuesday.
"Ten people have been arrested and questioned over the affair,"
said the committee set up by President Mohammad Khatami in a statement
read on state radio and television. "The case, very complicated, has
taken on a national dimension and conducting a correct and healthy investigation
is a heavy duty," it said ... FULL
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* Iran intelligence chief faulted
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - More than 500 students demonstrated Tuesday to demand
the dismissal of Iran's intelligence chief following the disclosure that
10 agents were arrested in the killings of five dissidents. The slain dissidents
were critical of Iran's ruling clergy and sympathetic to the political
and social reforms of President Mohammad Khatami, who faces opposition
from hard-liners. The students chanted slogans and carried banners seeking
the resignation of Intelligence Minister Ghorbanali Dorri Najafabadi ...
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* Councils elections: 326888 men & 7251 women sign up
Tehran, jan. 11, IRNA - Islamic councils elections will not be held
in six percent of the country's villages because of insufficient number
of candidates, it was announced here sunday. javad qadimi zakeri, interior
ministry director general in charge of elections affairs said that 268,123
applicants have enrolled for islamic councils elections at villages ...
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Monday
January 11, 1999
* Montazeri wants secret police purged
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Iran's most prominent dissident cleric called
in a statement published on Monday for a thorough purge of the country's
secret police after revelations of death-squads in the organisation. Ayatollah
Hossein Ali Montazeri, whose statement appeared in the moderate daily Khordad,
called for a ``deep and complete purge of the (Intelligence Ministry) personnel.''
``This purge is an immediate necessity and should not be delayed. This
action will regain the people's confidence,'' said Montazeri, who has often
complained about police pressures ... FULL
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* Factions debate minister's fate after murders
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A factional debate raged in Iran on Sunday
after revelations of death-squads in the secret police as a newspaper said
the conservative intelligence minister was unlikely to resign despite pressure
by moderates. Backers of moderate President Mohammad Khatami have called
for a thorough purge of the Intelligence Ministry after it revealed last
week that some of its agents were linked to a recent spate of killings
of dissidents ... FULL
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* Frightening reassurances in Iran
Jan 10, (New York Times) - In the public debate, which can be followed
even overseas in Iranian publications these days, President Khatami has
argued that the goal of the murders was to undermine his campaign to create
a civil society and impose the rule of law in Iran. This amounted to a
public acknowledgment that the country's intelligentsia was at risk, and
it created tremendous public pressure to hold the government accountable
to its people. Even Khamenei, who has effective authority over the intelligence
and security apparatus, eventually called the murders crimes "against
the country's national security." What is unclear, however, is just
how much reassurance this semi-openness has provided for the writers and
others who have come to fear for their lives ... FULL
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* Majlis rejects amendment to elections law
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Interior minister convinces the Majlis not to make
changes to the local council elections law - changes that had been demanded
by the conservatives aimed ... FULL
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