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Friday
January 29, 1999
* Local elections spark new rift within regime
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - Preparations for Iran's first ever municipal
elections next month sparked a new rift Friday between the government of
moderate President Mohammed Khatami and his conservative opponents. Interior
Minister Abdolvahab Mussavi-Lari slammed the conservative- dominated Supervision
Council for rejecting "a significant number of candidates" for
the elections due on February 26 ... FULL
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Thursday
January 28, 1999
* Board rejects moderate candidates -papers
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A conservative screening board has barred
several prominent moderate backers of President Mohammad Khatami from running
in Iran's first nationwide local elections next month, newspapers said
on Wednesday. The daily Salam said Abdollah Nouri, a key Khatami ally and
former interior minister, moderate newspaper editor Saeid Hajjarian and
pro-Khatami student leader Ebrahim Asgharzadeh were among about 50 Tehran
candidates rejected by the board dominated by the president's opponents
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* Restrictions on Montazeri lifted - paper
TEHRAN (Jan. 28) XINHUA - Iranian authorities have decided to lift restrictions
on Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the disgraced designate successor of
the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Musavi Khomeini. An Iranian daily
Tehran Times reported on Thursday that an informed source revealed the
decision to it, but did not give details of and the reasons for the decision
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* Letter to UN Human Rights Commissioner
25th January 1999, (IHRWG) - Dear Mrs. Robinson, we, the Iranian Human
Rights Working Group (IHRWG), would like to strongly urge you to take action
regarding the atmosphere of terror that has engulfed Iran as a result of
the disappearances and extra-judicial killings of dissident intellectuals
in the recent past ... FULL
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Wednesday
January 27, 1999
* More intelligence agents arrested
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (AFP) - Iran's intelligence ministry said Wednesday it
had arrested several of its agents, accusing them of clandestinely distributing
political leaflets. "Several agents who were involved in distributing
underground letters and counterfeit documents have been arrested and handed
over to the judiciary," an unnamed intelligence official said, quoted
by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL
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Tuesday
January 26, 1999
* President calls on police to prevent ``chaos''
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday
called on the country's police to curb disorder after a bomb damaged the
offices of an outspoken moderate newspaper. ``We cannot allow social disorder.
We should protect the rights of everyone who works within the framework
of laws,'' the official news agency IRNA quoted the moderate Khatami as
telling a gathering of police officials ... FULL
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Monday
January 25, 1999
* Explosion at "Khordad" newspaper office
Jan 25, (BBC) - An Iranian newspaper renowned for its outspoken criticism
of the conservative clergy has been attacked by unidentified assailants.
The official news agency said two men on a motorobike threw a stun grenade
at the newspaper's offices in Tehran, shattering windows and slightly injuring
two reporters ... FULL
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