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* Jannati warns of Internet threat
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* Police use force to disperse opposition rally
* "Murderers confess" to recent crimes
* Foruhar killers used film ploy to enter home
* Murderers of dissidents to face public trial
* Intelliegence minister may be replaced: paper
* TV chief regrets airing anti-Khatami program
* Hard-liners threaten Isfahan prayers leader
* TV chief banned from cabinet meetings
* Khatami seen winning row with state TV
* Montazeri supporters arrested
* Khamenei urges end to dispute
* New murders shake Iran
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Friday
January 22, 1999
* Jannati warns of Internet threat
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A top Iranian cleric warned on Friday against
the ``threat'' of the Internet and satellite television to Iranian society
and called for counteracting such influence with films on the history of
Islam. ``The danger of the Internet and satellites that broadcast from
a close range threatens us...They broadcast disgraceful, immoral pictures
and threaten all humanity and morality and chastity,'' said Ayatollah Ahmad
Jannati, the secretary of the powerful Guardian Council ... FULL
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Thursday
January 21, 1999
* Tehran police use force to disperse opposition rally
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) - Tehran police forcibly dispersed thousands of
people commemorating the anniversary Thursday of the death of former prime
minister and Islamic liberal opposition leader Mehdi Bazargan. Police intervened
at the end of a ceremony at Hosseinieh-Ershad mosque in northern Tehran
after 10,000 people poured into the streets and shouted slogans in support
of President Mohammad Khatami and against his conservative opponents ...
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* "Murderers confess" to recent crimes
Tehran (Iran) - Military prosecutor Hojatoleslam Mohammad Niazi has
detailed what he says are confessions from alleged killers of dissidents
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* Foruhar killers used film ploy to enter home
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) - The murderers of Iranian dissident Daryush Foruhar
and his wife killed the couple after entering their home on the pretext
of making a film, a judicial official was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Mohammad Niazi, a prosecutor with a military court investigating the case,
also said that someone close to Foruhar, probably a member of his secular
nationalist party, accompanied the killers ... FULL
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Wednesday
January 20, 1999
* Murderers of Iranian dissidents to face public trial
TEHRAN, Jan 20 (AFP) - The alleged murderers of Iranian intellectuals
and dissidents will be put on public trial shortly, a military official
announced Wednesday. "They will be tried in public and can have a
defense lawyer," a prosecutor of the Tehran military tribunal Mohammad
Niazi said in an interview broadcast on state television ... FULL TEXT
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* Intelliegence minister may be replaced: paper
Tehran, Jan. 20, IRNA - information minister qorbanali dorri-najafabadi
will stay in his post until the end of the current iranian year ending
march 21, and "most probably he will be replaced by ali yunesi,"
an informed source told the daily 'tehran times'. yunesi is one of the
three members who on behalf of president mohammad khatami successfully
conducted an inquiry into the recent murders of dissident politicians and
writers, added the article in the paper, published wednesday.
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* TV chief regrets airing anti-Khatami program
Tehran, Jan. 20, IRNA - The president of the islamic republic of iran
broadcasting (irib), ali larijani, in a statement issued here on wednesday
stated that part of the tv program 'cheragh' had violated the irib policy
of preventing the politicization of the case of recent serial murders ...
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* Hard-liners threaten Isfahan friday prayers leader
January 20, 1999, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Hard-liners have threatened suicide
attacks against a Shiite Muslim cleric for supporting a religious leader
who has questioned the clergy's right to rule Iran, a newspaper reported
Wednesday. The hard-line Hezbollah of Isfahan group threatened to ``carry
out its political, revolutionary and religious duty, even to the point
of martyrdom'' against Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, according to comments
published in the daily Asr-e-Azadegan newspaper ... FULL
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Tuesday
January 19, 1999
* TV chief banned from cabinet meetings
January 19, 1999, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The head of Iran's state television
has been banned from attending Cabinet sessions for airing a broadcast
that blamed supporters of the country's moderate president for a string
of recent slayings, newspapers reported Tuesday. Ataollah Mohajerani, minister
of culture and the government's spokesman, demanded a public apology from
Ali Larijani, who heads the country's radio and TV network ... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami seen winning row with state TV
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Iran's state-run television came under fire
on Tuesday over an interview with a conservative cleric who had accused
backers of President Mohammad Khatami of being behind a series of murders
of moderate intellectuals. A top state committee condemned the television
station for the interview and demanded that those responsible for the programme
be punished. Iranian analysts saw the decision as a victory for the moderate
president over the conservative-run state media and another step forward
for his liberal political and cultural reforms ... FULL
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* Montazeri supporters arrested
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (AFP) - Several supporters of dissident Ayatollah Hossein
Ali Montazeri, the disgraced former hier to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei,
have been arrested in the central city of Esfahan, a newspaper reported
Tuesday. "Several people were arrested after shouting slogans in favor
of Ayatollah Montazeri," said the radical newspaper Salam. It said
the arrests took place on Monday after prayers for Eid al-Fitr marking
the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan ... FULL
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Monday
January 18, 1999
* Khamenei urges factions to end dispute
TEHRAN, Iran, Jan. 18 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei Monday called on conservatives and moderates to end a bitter dispute
over the killings of dissidents. Khamenei's call for calm came amid public
concern over a new wave of killings in Tehran which did not appear to be
political in nature. There was wide concern among residents of the capital
after more gruesome murders in which a prominent elderly engineer and his
wife, and the wife of a prize-winning translator were killed at their homes
by unknown intruders last week ... FULL
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* New murders shake Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - Political killings and kidnappings, death threats
against intellectuals and dissidents, and violent killings of citizens
on an almost daily basis, have deepened a sense of insecurity in Iran ahead
of the 20th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Iran has been gripped
by a vicious cycle of death threats and murders against dissidents and
writers as well as professionals, as rival political factions are locked
in a power struggle ahead of the anniversary on February 11 ... FULL TEXT
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