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* Iran rebuked on executions, religious intolerance
* Iran condemns UN rights
resolution for "ignoring reality"
* Lari: Government determined to hold council elections
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* Iran's hardliners disrupt student gathering-papers
* Interview with Mohajerani
* Iran pardons 1,586 prisoners for Moslem holy day
* Strike at troubled textile mill
* Bahais warn of fresh persecution
* Radio Sedaye Azadikhahan closes
* Khatami urges more transparent state media
* Tehran, Helsinki to review human rights issues
* Women take off their hijab? In a theater?
* Lack of exercise threatens Iranian girls' health
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* Iran rebuked on executions, religious intolerance
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. panel adopted a resolution Wednesday
rebuking Iran for executions without due process of law and for discrimination
against women and religious minorities such as the Baha'is. The resolution
was approved by the General Assembly's social, humanitarian and cultural
committee by a vote of 63 to 35 with 60 abstentions. A vote by the committee,
which includes all U.N. members, is tantamount to formal adoption by the
General Assembly, which last year adopted a similar resolution by 74 to
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* Iran condemns UN rights resolution for "ignoring
reality"
TEHRAN, Nov 19 (AFP)-Iran on Thursday denounced
a UN resolution welcoming moves towards openness by the Islamic republic's
government but expressed concern about continuing threats against Salman
Rushdie. "The resolution is a political move targeting political interests
above human rights considerations," said Mostafa Alai, Iran's ambassador
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* Lari: Government determined to hold council elections
Tehran, Nov. 19, IRNA - interior minister, hojatoleslam abdolvahed mousavi
lari, wednesday evening underlined importance of the elections for city
and village councils and described it a key social issue... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Iran's hardliners disrupt student gathering-papers
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Hardliners disrupted a student gathering
and prevented a speech by a prominent leftist cleric in the city of Mashad,
1,000 km (600 miles) northeast of Tehran, Iranian newspapers reported on
Wednesday. On Tuesday about 30 intruders attacked the Ferdowsi hotel in
Mashad, where a gathering of university students was expected to be opened
by Ali-Akbar Mohtashami, a member of the League of Militant Clerics which
backs moderate President Mohammad Khatami, the daily newspaper Jahan-e
Eslam said... FULL
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* Interview with Mohajerani
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani says a draft
proposal from the publishers guild aimed at changing the current tough
laws governing book publishing is being studied (last question) ...
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* Iran pardons 1,586 prisoners for Moslem holy day
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Iran will free or reduce the jail terms of
1,586 prisoners to mark a Moslem holy day, the Iranian news agency IRNA
reported on Wednesday. It said Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
issued the pardon covering prisoners convicted by civil, military and Islamic
revolutionary courts.
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* Strike at troubled textile mill
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - Workers at a troubled textile mill in northern
Iran locked out the firm's director and other managers after roughing them
up on Monday, strikers told AFP. Some 2,500 staff are on strike at the
mill in Qaem Shahar (formerly known as Shahi), in the Caspian Sea province
of Mazandaran. The strike was called on Sunday to protest against nonpayment
of wages and alleged mismanagement of the mill ... FULL
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* Bahais warn of fresh persecution
PARIS, Nov 17 (Reuters) - French members of the Bahai faith said on
Tuesday that fellow believers in Iran were the target of a new wave of
persecution, caught in a power struggle between reformists and Islamic
fundamentalists. ``When there is a struggle for power, it is always the
minorities who are caught in between and become scapegoats,'' Foad Saberan,
a Frenchman of Iranian origin, told a news conference marking the 100th
anniversary of an organised French Bahai community... FULL
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* Radio Sedaye Azadikhahan closes
THE IRANAIN - Radio Sedaye Azadikhahan e Iran has ceased daily broadcasts
to Iran. It blames world powers for forcing its closure but pledges to
offer its programs via the Internet ... HEAR
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* Khatami urges more transparent state media
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called
in remarks broadcast on Monday for more transparency in state media, suggesting
Iranians would turn to foreign media out of distrust of Iranian reports.
``We are only fooling ourselves if we cover up realities in our society
or the world. People will eventually find out somehow what is happening,''
Khatami said in remarks carried by state television ... FULL
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* Tehran, Helsinki to review human rights issues
Tehran, nov. 16, IRNA - Finland and iran will explore security related
issues, human rights and refugee problems in a joint gathering to be held
in helsinki, it was announced here monday. visiting finnish foreign minister,
ms. tajra halonen, told reporters, without elaborating on the date of the
gathering, that a group of academics, diplomats and politicians from both
countries would participate in the gathering ... FULL
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* Women take off their hijab? In a theater?
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani has denied
an accusation by a member of the Majlis that 30 women took off their scarves
in a movie theater in Tehran ... FULL
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* Lack of exercise threatens Iranian girls' health
TEHRAN, Nov 11 (AFP) -The health of Iranian schoolgirls is under threat
from a lack of physical exercise, an education ministry official warned
Wenesday. Muhammad Reza Pahlevan, head of the ministry's physical education
department, said the country's approximately 9.5 million schoolgirls are
suffering from an increase in "physical lethargy" because of
a paucity of sporting activities in schools ... FULL
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