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* Zan newspaper dubbed anti-revolutionary
* Top judge rejects violence in fighting vice
* German jailed in Iran may be freed
* Mobil calls for US-Iran rapprochement
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* Court ruling on press ban questioned
* Reformers see more trouble after daily closed
* Election board repeats annulment call
* Italian frigate in Iran for joint exercises
* Iraqi war prisoners die in Iran's camps - paper
* German facing death sentence ordered released
* Zan newspaper confiscated
* Banned Iran paper's head slams court , conservatives
* Moderates under increasing pressure
* Iraq to ask Iran to hand over refugees - paper
* UN: Iran and Vietnam win 1999 population award
* Sweden lodges complaint against its Teheran embassy
* Iran court bans newspaper which quoted Shah's widow
* Iran moderate mayor denied appeal, faces jail
* Iran reformers brace for fresh attacks in new year
* French members of parliament arrive in Tehran
* Iran sends relief to Kosovo refugees
* Faezeh Hashemi cancels U.S. trip
* Court upholds two-year Karbaschi jail term
* French, Canadaian firms sign Iranian oil deal
* U.S. upset over French, Canadian oil deal
* Farah's Norouz message published in Iran
* Kadivar gets family visit for first time
* Khatami urged to ignore opposition to France visit
* Iran blames NATO for Kosovo misery, sends aid
* Iran, Saudi Arabia have "common strategic interests"
* Iran discusses Kosovo with British, Moslem FMs
* Kosovo crisis stemmed from "arrogance:" Iran
* Iran making human rights progress
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Friday
April 9, 1999
* Zan newspaper dubbed anti-revolutionary
The head of the Iran's conservative-domianted judiciary, Ayatollah Mohammed
Yazdi, has said that the Zan newspaper was closed for committing a counter-revolutionary
act. Speaking at Friday prayers in Teheran, he warned the Iranian press
against violating, what he called, the country's sacred values ... FULL
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* Top judge rejects violence in fighting vice
TEHRAN, April 9 (Reuters) Iran's conservative head of judiciary urged
the government on Friday to maintain Islamic morality but said people should
not be harassed in the process. Judge Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi told worshippers
at Tehran's mass Friday prayers, carried on state radio, it was the legal
duty of the government to fight corruption and crime ... FULL
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* German jailed in Iran may be freed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A German businessman jailed for having sex with
an Iranian woman will be released on bail, his lawyer said Thursday. Arrangements
were under way for Helmut Hofer's release, attorney Malek Houshang Qahhari
said. He did not specify the bail amount, but a government source in Bonn,
Germany, said on condition of anonymity that the amount was about $165,000
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* Mobil calls for US-Iran rapprochement, criticizes sanctions policy
WASHINGTON, April 9 (AFP) - US oil giant Mobil on Friday urged reconciliation
between the United States and Iran and appealed for an easing in US sanctions
against investment in the Iranian oil industry. "US-Iran rapprochement
would go a long way to bolster regional harmony," the company said
in an advertising message that appeared in the Washington Post ...
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Thursday
April 8, 1999
* Revolutionary court ruling on press ban questioned
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - Iran's culture ministry on Thursday called on
a banned moderate paper to apologise for publishing a message from the
wife of the ousted shah but lashed out at a revolutionary court for interfering
in the case. "The possibility of making mistakes is unavoidable in
journalism," said the ministry, which is led by moderates and is close
to reformist President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Reformers see more trouble after daily closed
TEHRAN, April 8 (Reuters) - Iran's reformers have bitterly condemned
the closing by a revolutionary court of one of their leading newspapers,
fearing the move presages a broader assault on political, social and religious
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* Election board repeats annulment call for Tehran moderates
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - Iran's conservative electoral supervisory committee
reiterated its intention to overturn the election of five leading reformists
to the Tehran municipal council, newspapers said Thursday. Committee head
and hardline MP Ali Movahedi Savoji has sent a letter to the Tehran governorship
stating that the election of the five should be invalidated because their
candidacies were illegal, the press reported ... FULL
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* Italian frigate in Iran for joint exercises
BANDAR ABBAS, Iran, April 8 (AFP) - An Italian frigate that arrived
Thursday in this Iranian Gulf port will hold exercises with the Iranian
navy, the ship's commander said. The visit is the first by a Western warship
since the 1979 Iranian revolution ... FULL
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* Iraqi war prisoners die in Iran's camps - paper
BAGHDAD, April 8 (Reuters) - An Iraqi newspaper said on Thursday that
38 Iraqi prisoners of war had died in prison camps in Iran. The weekly
newspaper al-Zawra, owned by President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday,
published the names of the dead. It said Iraqi prisoners of war (POWs)
from the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, released by Tehran recently, had given
information on the dead ... FULL
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* German facing death sentence ordered released on bail in Iran:
lawyer
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - German businessman Helmut Hofer, sentenced to
death in Tehran for having sexual relations with an Iranian woman, is to
be released pending a final decision in his case, his lawyers said Thursday.
"Mr. Hofer appeared in court Thursday, and the court agreed to the
attorney's request to release him provisionally," Hofer's lawyer Houchang
Ghahari said, stressing that Hofer "has not yet been freed."
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Wednesday
April 7, 1999
* Zan newspaper confiscated
April 7, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Authorities confiscated copies of
an Iranian newspaper Wednesday after the daily defied a ban imposed for
printing a cartoon deemed insulting to Islam, its editor said. Court officials,
citing the cartoon as well as a letter the paper published from Iran's
former empress, Farah Diba, said the moderate Zan newspaper will be banned
from publishing until after the case goes to court. A trial date was not
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* Banned Iran paper's head slams court , conservatives
TEHRAN, April 7 (Reuters) - A prominent reformist Iranian newspaper
editor on Wednesday blasted the banning of her daily by an Islamic court
as part of an attack by conservatives on moderate backers of President
Mohammad Khatami. Faezeh Hashemi also said the court had exceeded its jurisdiction
in ordering an indefinite ban on her daily Zan (Woman) for quoting Iran's
former empress and printing a cartoon it deemed anti-Islamic, the Iranian
news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
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* Iranian moderates under increasing pressure from Islamic conservatives
TEHRAN, April 7 (AFP) - Iran's moderates warned Wednesday that the regime's
conservatives are trying to roll back their stunning electoral successes
with a new series of crackdowns on leading reformers. "The conservatives
want to block moderates supporting the president (Mohammad Khatami) ahead
of next year's legislative elections," said Faezeh Hashemi, a leading
moderate MP whose newspaper Zan was slapped with an indefinite ban on Tuesday
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* Iraq to ask Iran to hand over refugees - paper
BAGHDAD, April 7 (Reuters) - An Iraqi newspaper said on Wednesday that
Iraq would ask Iran to return back thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled
the country after the 1991 Gulf War. ``Iraq will ask Iran to hand over
refugees on the Iranian side after Iraq has handed all Iranian refugees
to Tehran,'' the weekly newspaper al-Ilam (Information) said ... FULL
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* UN: Iran and Vietnam win 1999 United Nations population award
6 April 1999 NEW YORK (UNFPA) -- Dr. Seyed Alireza Marandi, former Minister
of Health and Medical Education of Iran, and the Vietnam National Committee
for Population and Family Planning will share the 1999 United Nations Population
Award. The Award is presented annually by the Committee of the United Nations
Population Award to individuals and institutions which have made outstanding
contributions to increasing the awareness of population problems and to
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* Sweden lodges bribery complaint against its Teheran embassy
STOCKHOLM, April 7 (AFP) - Sweden's Foreign Ministry has taken the unusual
step of lodging a formal complaint with police here against its embassy
in Teheran over allegations of bribery, ministry officials confirmed Wednesday
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Tuesday
April 6, 1999
* Iran court bans newspaper which quoted Shah's widow
TEHRAN, April 6 (Reuters) - A court in Iran on Tuesday ordered the closure
of a moderate newspaper which recently quoted the widow of the late shah,
a staff member at the daily said. The moderate newspaper Zan (Woman), run
by Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
aroused intense conservative anger at the weekend when it printed parts
of a message by Farah Diba, widow of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
who was toppled by the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Iran moderate mayor denied appeal, faces jail
THERAN, April 6 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Court rejected an appeal
by Tehran's suspended moderate mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, paving the
way for his possible imprisonment on graft charges this week, the judiciary
announced on Tuesday. Karbaschi, 45, a reformer close to President Mohammad
Khatami, has been sentenced to two years in jail, banned from executive
office for 10 years and ordered to pay 1.6 billion rials ($533,000) in
fines and restitution ... FULL
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* Iran reformers brace for fresh attacks in new year
TEHRAN, April 6 (Reuters) - The threatened imprisonment of a chief ally
to President Mohammad Khatami has thrown Iran's reformists on the defensive
as the artificial truce over the long Iranian New Year holiday screeched
to a halt on Tuesday. The daily Iran said former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, instrumental in Khatami's 1997 landslide victory, had exhausted
his appeals and faced detention for two years on charges of graft, possibly
as soon as this week ... FULL
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* French members of parliament arrive in Tehran
TEHRAN, April 4 (afp) - A member of the French parliament expressed
his confidence Sunday that Iranian President Mohammad Khatami would visit
France "during the current year." ... FULL
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* Iran sends relief to Kosovo refugees
TEHRAN, Iran, April 6 (UPI) -- Iran says it has started channeling relief
aid to the Muslim Kosovars, who sought refuge in Albania and Macedonia,
with the aim of encouraging other countries to help alleviate their sufferings
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Monday
April 5, 1999
* Faezeh Hashemi cancels U.S. trip
Washington DC, April 5, (The Iranian) - Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani has
abruptly cancelled her trip to the United States. The Majlis deputy and
publisher of Zan newspaper was due to make a speech at the Asia Society
in New York today. But in a letter faxed to her host, the American-Iranian
Council (AIC), she said she had to postponed her trip because of "unforseen
circumstances". Hooshang Amirahamadi, president of the AIC, said Hashemi
reaffirmed her support for a dialogue between the peoples of Iran and the
U.S. and said she hoped to reschedule her trip to the U.S. in the "near
future".
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* Iran court upholds two-year jail term for convicted Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, April 3 (AFP) - Iran's supreme court has upheld a two-year prison
sentence against former reformist Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
moderate newspapers reported here Saturday. Karbaschi, who was convicted
on corruption charges last year but has been free while his case was under
appeal, is due to be arrested "in the next few days," the Sobh-e-Emrouz
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* France's Elf, Canada's Bow Valley sign Iranian oil deal
TEHRAN, April 4 (AFP) - Two oil companies, Elf Aquitaine of France and
Canada's Bow Valley, late Sunday signed a 300-million-dollar contract with
Iran to exploit an oil deposit in the Gulf. The agreement flies in the
face of the US D'Amato law, which threatens to slap sanctions on any foreign
company investing more than 20 million dollars in Iran's oil sector ...
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* U.S. upset over French, Canadian oil deal with Iran
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Monday said it
was disappointed over a $300 million oil development deal Iran signed with
French and Canadian companies, and indicated it may punish the firms for
violating a U.S. law limiting energy investments in Iran ... FULL
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* Farah Diba's Norouz message published in Iranian newspaper
TEHRAN, April 3 (AP) - An Iranian newspaper published on Saturday part
of a New Year message from the country's former empress, the first time
she has been quoted here since the 1979 Islamic Revolution which toppled
her husband, the Shah ... FULL
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* Kadivar gets family visit for first time
Tehran (Iran daily) - For the first time since his arrest a month ago,
Hojatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar has been visited by members of his family and
they have passed on his demands to the press ... FULL
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* Tehran paper urges Khatami to ignore hardline opposition to France
visit
TEHRAN, April 4 (AFP) - The moderate paper Khordad Sunday urged Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami to press ahead with his delayed visit to France,
saying that hardline opponents of his trip were damaging Tehran's interests.
"Khatami's visit to France is in Iran's interest" but "certain
political circles are against it," the paper said ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran blames NATO for Kosovo misery, sends aid
TEHRAN, April 5 (Reuters) Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
attacked NATO on Monday for its air strikes on Yugoslavia, saying they
had only exacerbated the plight of ethnic Albanian Moslems in Kosovo ...
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