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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
* Judiciary chief calls for clampdown on women's dress

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* Court ruling on press ban questioned
* Reformers see more trouble after daily closed
* Election board repeats annulment call
* Zan newspaper confiscated
* Banned Iran paper's head slams court , conservatives
* Moderates under increasing pressure
* Court bans newspaper which quoted Shah's widow
* Reformers brace for fresh attacks in new year
* Moderate mayor denied appeal, faces jail
* Kadivar trial set for April 14
* Court upholds two-year jail term for Karbaschi
* Farah Diba's Norouz message published in Iran
* Kadivar gets family visit for first time
* Lawyer: Kadivar to put up vigorous defense
* Another moderate cleric jailed
* Women barred from teaching boys over 10

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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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* Judiciary chief calls for clampdown on women's dress

TEHRAN, April 9 (AFP) - Iran's conservative judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi called for a government clampdown Friday on the increasing relaxation of the strict dress code for women imposed following the 1979 Islamic revolution. "It's the government's duty to demand respect for the dress code in public places, cinemas, parks, shops and on the street," Yazdi told worshippers at the main Moslem weekly prayers here ... 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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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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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 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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* 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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* Kadivar trial set for April 14

Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- The special court for clerics has annouced that Hojatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar's trial will begin on April 14 and be open to the public ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT

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Monday
April 5, 1999

* 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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* 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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* Defense lawyer: Kadivar to put up vigorous defense

Tehran (Iran daily) - Hojatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar believes the special court for clerics is not qualified to try him and he will vigorously defend himself against accusations, his defense lawyer Hojatoleslam Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi said ... FULL TEXT

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* Another moderate Iranian cleric jailed by religious court: newspaper

TEHRAN, April 4 (AFP) - A moderate Iranian cleric close to leading dissident Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri has been jailed by order of Iran's hardline special religious court, a pro-government newspaper reported Sunday. Mohammad-Ali Nejad al-Hosseini was arrested March 20 in the central Iranian city of Esfahan, the Sobh-e-Emrouz paper reported ... FULL TEXT

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* Women teachers barred from teaching Iranian boys older than 10

TEHRAN, April 4 (AFP) - The Iranian education ministry has forbidden female language instructors from holding classes for schoolboys over the age of 10, newspapers reported Sunday. "Foreign language instructors of one sex are not authorised to give lessons to children of the opposite sex in private schools," said an education ministry statement quoted in the press ... FULL TEXT

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As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

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