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January 2000 news index
January 26
* Khamenei rejects criticism
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said
Wednesday that his authority is indisputable, apparently rejecting criticism
from reformists who say he is not above the law. His remarks come less
than a month before crucial Parliamentary elections in which his increasingly
unpopular hard-line supporters are being challenged by moderate reformists
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* Services disagree whether to show killers' "confessions"
on TV
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - Iranian legal and intelligence services are at
odds over whether the "confessions" of those accused of the killings
of several prominent intellectuals just over a year ago should be shown
on television. "The intelligence ministry opposed the broadcasting
of this film, while the military judicial organisation believes it would
be helpful to show it on television," deputy parliamentary speaker
Hassan Ruhani said Wednesday, quoted by the official IRNA news agency
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* Karbaschi to launch new paper after receiving pardon
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - Tehran's former reformist mayor Gholamhossein
Karbaschi marked his release from prison following a pardon from Iran's
spiritual leader by announcing Wednesday that he will shortly launch a
new newspaper, Ham-Mihan (Compatriot). The announcement comes three weeks
before the February 18 parliamentary elections, in which reformist forces
are hoping to end the conservative stranglehold on the country's affairs
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January 24
* Date finally set for police court martial over July unrest in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - Tehran's military court has finally set a date
for the trial of the capital's sacked police chief Farhad Nazari and 19
other officers over the violent suppression of a student demonstration
last July, newspapers said Monday >>>
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January 17
* Head of conservative Keyhan newspaper appears on trial
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - The head of an Iranian conservative daily appeared
before a press court Monday to answer 27 charges facing his newspaper,
in a shift from trials that have so far involved only Iran's moderate press.
Hossein Shariatmadari, appointed head of the Kayhan publishing group by
Iran's religious leader Ali Khamenei, must answer to a series of charges
that include insulting, defaming and publishing state secrets, and lies
aimed at disturbing public opinion >>>
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January 16
* Iran dailies in court over dissident interview
TEHRAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iran's conservative-led Press Court on Sunday
summoned representatives of leading reformist newspapers for questioning
after publication of remarks by dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali
Montazeri. The dailies published excerpts on Saturday of a transcript,
provided by Montazeri's office, of a joint interview the ayatollah gave
earlier to Reuters and the British newspaper The Guardian >>>
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January 13
* Montazeri breaks silence
January 13, 2000 , (The Guardian of London ) -- The man behind profound
change in Iran is the invisible resident of this holy Shi'ite Muslim city.
Ayatollah Ali Hossein Montazeri has been under house arrest for more than
two years, exiled to his modest home on Riverbank Street. Few dare to mention
his name in public. Newspapers which print his ideas are closed or taken
to court. Fellow clerics who spread his opinions in public are imprisoned.
And thousands of his disciples, the seminarians who read his banned books,
do so clandestinely. >>>
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* For a change, courts to try a conservative journalist
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran, which has become accustomed to seeing moderate
newspaper editors stand trial, will witness the trial next week of a conservative
publication's chief, a Tehran press court judge said Thursday. Hossein
Shariatmadari will have to defend himself against 27 charges concerning
news published in the Kayhan daily in the past few months. His trial by
jury will be public, the judge told AFP >>>
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January 12
* Jailed Iran students begin hunger strike - paper
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Several Iranian students jailed for their
alleged role in widespread unrest in July have gone on hunger strike, a
newspaper reported on Wednesday. Among the strikers is 22-year-old Ahmad
Batebi, sentenced to 10 years in prison for engaging in propaganda against
the state, the reformist Sobh-e Emrouz newspaper said >>>
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January 10
* Rafsanjani says duped by secret service
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
was quoted on Monday as saying he had been kept in the dark about certain
operations of the secret service during his tenure, including a case of
arms smuggling. Rafsanjani, who stepped down as president in 1997 after
two terms, was referring to a band of renegade senior intelligence officials
implicated in the murder more than a year ago of several dissidents and
liberal intellectuals >>>
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* WAN Protests Prosecution of Iranian Journalist
Paris, 10 January (WAN) -- The World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
has protested against the prosecution of a pro-reform journalist in Iran
and called on President Mohammed Khatami to halt the trial. According to
reports, Journalist Said Hajarian of the pro-reform Sobh-e Emrooz newspaper
appeared in Tehran's Press Court last week, accused of having "disclosed
confidential information," though no further specifics were given
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January 4
* Reformist editor in Teheran court
Jan 4, (BBC) -- The managing editor of the pro-reform Sobh-e Emrooz
newspaper, Saeed Hajjarian, has appeared in a court in Teheran >>>
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* Parliament puts off debate on tough press law Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-led parliament on Tuesday
postponed debate for three months on a bill that would tighten sanctions
against the press, under pressure from reformists. The postponement will
move the debate to after the vital February parliamentary elections in
which supporters of reformist President Mohammad Khatami are hoping to
end the conservative majority in the legislature >>>
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January 2
* New Iran reformist daily hits newsstands
TEHRAN, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A new reformist newspaper, headed by a brother
of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, hit the newsstands on Sunday, ahead
of parliamentary elections in February. Publisher Mohammad Reza Khatami
said in an editorial that the daily Mosharekat (Participation) hoped to
boost ``free and legal participation in all areas by all citizens.'' >>>
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