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April 5-April 9, 1999 / Farrvardin 16-20, 1378

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 liberties ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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." ... FULL TEXT

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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 released ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 their solutions ... FULL TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 paper said ... FULL TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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