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December 13-17, 1999 / Azar 22-26, 1378

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* Registration closes for Iranian parliament polls
* Iran Freedom Movement party defends itself
* Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes "internal enemies"
* Iran vows no let-up in its hostility to Israel despite new Syria talks

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* Yazdi's Iran Freedom Party in new bid to enter parliament
* Moderate newspaper, Arya, banned for two weeks
* Intelligence chief says arrested Jews will be treated fairly
* Intelligence chief calls for swift and fair end to Hofer's case
* Basiji's killer sentenced to death
* Rafsanjani registers as election candidate

* Parliament approves outlines of amnesty law
* Khatami calls for rapid solution to murders of dissidents
* Lawyer rejects doubts over Nuri's registration
* Students demand reformist cleric's release
* Jailed Abdollah Nouri registered for general elections
* Khamenei calls for "healthy" legislative elections
* 22 year old Basij member stabbed to death in Tehran
* More than 300 candidates sign up for general elections
* Staff of banned Khordad newspaper bring out new title
* Iran Jewish MP lambasts "lack of information"
* Students rally in support of Abdollah Nouri
* Karbaschi meets Rafsanjani and returns to prison
* Rafsanjani sets out consensus platform
* Conservative hails Rafsanjani's decision

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Friday
December 17, 1999

* Registration closes for Iranian parliament polls

TEHRAN, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Registration of candidates closed on Friday for Iran's crucial parliamentary elections in February which will pit reformists close to President Mohammad Khatami against conservative opponents. ``We had registered 4,842 persons, including about 260 women by Thursday night. No final sign-up figures are available yet,'' an election official told reporters >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran Freedom Movement party defends itself

TEHRAN, Dec 17 (AFP) - The opposition Iran Freedom Movement hit back at conservatives after their leader, parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, accused it of trying to seize control of the universities with pro-American forces. In an unprecedented attack, IFM, which so far has been tolerated by the conservative-dominated regime, charged that "the conservative monopolists" are responsible for "two decades of crisis, difficulties, corruption and bankruptcy in the country." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes "internal enemies"

TEHRAN, Dec 17 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned Friday "internal enemies of the people and the Islamic revolution," in an apparent reference to imprisoned pro-reform editor Abdollah Nuri and a liberal opposition group. "These naive enemies, who may or may not be religious, are going down the wrong road as our external enemies and foreign radio stations wish," Khamenei said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran vows no let-up in its hostility to Israel despite new Syria talks

TEHRAN, Dec 17 (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed Friday that Iran would remain committed to the Palestinian cause, in an apparent criticism of long-time Arab ally Syria's resumption of peace talks with Israel. "It's an illusion. Nothing is yet finished," Khamenei said, without referring explicitly to the talks, which restarted this week in Washington. He added that Iran "would not abandon Palestine and the Palestinian cause." >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
December 16, 1999

* Yazdi's Iran Freedom Party in new bid to enter parliament

TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - A banned but tolerated Iranian opposition group has registered 12 candidates for key general elections in February in a new bid to enter parliament, officials said here Thursday. Former foreign minister Ibrahim Yazdi, the leader of the Iran Freedom Movement, is heading the progressive Islamic group's list for the elections, the officials said on the penultimate day of registration for the key polls >>> FULL TEXT

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* Moderate newspaper, Arya, banned for two weeks

TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - Iran's conservative press court has banned the moderate daily Arya for two weeks for "damaging public opinion" following complaints by the security forces, press reports said Thursday. Arya, which is close to Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami, was also fined six million rials (2,000 dollars at the official exchange rate). The management of Arya has 20 days to appeal against the verdict >>> FULL TEXT

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* Intelligence chief says arrested Jews will be treated fairly

TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel will receive a fair and just trial, intelligence chief Ali Yunesi was quoted Thursday as telling the parliamentary representative of Iran's Jewish community. The Ettelaat daily said Yunesi had briefed Manuchehr Eliasi on the case but gave no details >>> FULL TEXT

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* Intelligence chief calls for swift and fair end to Hofer's case

TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - Iran's intelligence chief has called for a "fair and rapid verdict" in the case of German businessman Helmut Hofer, detained on a new charge of insulting a prison guard, a press report said Thursday. "The case is under examination and we want a fair and rapid verdict," the pro-government daily Iran quoted Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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* Basiji's killer sentenced to death

TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - A Tehran court sentenced to death Thursday the killer of one of Iran's Islamic militiamen, known as basij, only days after his murder, state radio reported. Morteza Amini-Mogadam was sentenced under Iran's "eye for an eye" law after the family of Hadi Mohebi, 22, demanded his execution.>>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
December 15, 1999

* Rafsanjani registers as election candidate

TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani registered himself as a candidate for February's key elections Wednesday, the official IRNA news agency reported. He presented his papers in person at the Tehran local government office, IRNA said. He said he was standing "out of duty" and "out of concern for national solidarity as well as to contribute to the success of the government's plans." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Parliament approves outlines of amnesty law

TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Iranians living abroad, including opponents of the current regime, will be able to return home under the terms of the Islamic Republic's first ever general amnesty law which received initial approval from parliament Wednesday. The bill successfully passed its first reading, and parliament will now proceed to discuss it in detail >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami calls for rapid solution to murders of dissidents

TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday he wanted a "speedy solution" to multiple killings of Iranian intellectuals and dissidents that shocked the country at the end of last year and the beginning of this. "I have not had direct responsibility for this weighty and complex case, but I hope we shall arrive at a speedy solution," he told journalists as he left parliament after presenting his budget >>> FULL TEXT

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* Lawyer rejects doubts over Abdollah Nuri's registration for polls

TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Jailed former vice president Abdollah Nuri's registration as a candidate for key parliamentary elections in February is "cut and dried," his lawyer said Wednesday dismissing doubts raised over the key reformer's eligibility. "His registration is cut and dried and we won't except any more excuses" for not accepting it, lawyer Mohsen Rahami told AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
December 14, 1999

* Students demand reformist cleric's release

TEHRAN, Dec 13 (Reuters) - About 4,000 Iranian students held a campus rally in Tehran on Monday to protest against the imprisonment of leading reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri. ``Nouri must be released!'' chanted the students, who carried portraits of Nouri and President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL TEXT

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* Jailed Abdollah Nouri registered for general elections

TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - Jailed Iranian former vice president Abdollah Nuri was registered as a candidate for key parliamentary elections in February Tuesday by his lawyer, giving fresh hope to his reformist supporters of success in the polls. Lawyer Mohsen Rahami said officials raised no objection to his client's registration despite the five-year jail sentence imposed on Nuri by a hardline court last month for anti-Islamic propaganda in his now banned daily Khordad ... FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei calls for "healthy" legislative elections

TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for healthy legislative elections and demanded that organisers, particularly government officials, demonstrate neutrality during the process, official agency IRNA reported Tuesday. "Government organisations, particularly ballot organisers must guard against all partiality," said the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic during a meeting with members of the supervisory elections commission Monday ... FULL TEXT

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* 22 year old Basij member stabbed to death in Tehran

TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - One of Iran's Islamic militiamen, known as basij, was stabbed to death by a group of young men in Tehran at the weekend, press reports said Tuesday. Student Hadi Mohebi, 22, was set upon Saturday by eight men, who beat him and then stabbed him in his father's shop in the southeastern district of Iran-Mehr, the reports said ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
December 13, 1999

* More than 300 candidates sign up on first registration day for general elections

TEHRAN, Dec 12 (AFP) - A total of 324 people, including seven women, handed in their candidacies on the first registration day Saturday for Iran's key parliamentary elections in February, the interior ministry announced Sunday. Prospective candidates have until December 17 to hand in their applications to stand to the interior ministry in Tehran or to one of 207 provincial and local government offices across Iran ... FULL TEXT

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* Staff of banned Khordad newspaper bring out new title

TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - The staff of Iran's reformist daily Khordad brought out a new title, Fath (Conquest) Saturday, only two weeks after their previous paper was banned and its chief, Abdollah Nuri, was jailed for five years. The first issue of Fath, which like Khordad supports reformist President Mohammad Khatami, carried a picture of a smiling Nuri, who was jailed by the Special Court for Clergy for spreading "anti-Islamic propaganda" in the pages of Khordad ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran Jewish MP lambasts "lack of information"

TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - The parliamentary representative of Iran's Jewish community has deplored the lack of information over the case of 13 Jews arrested in Iran for alleged spying for Israel, a press report said Saturday. "The judiciary has not told us anything about their release or detention and we do not know what stage their cases have arrived at," the moderate Azad paper quoted Manuchehr Eliasi as saying ... FULL TEXT

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* Students rally in support of Abdollah Nouri

TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranian students of both sexes rallied outside Tehran University mosque Monday in support of jailed reformist Abdollah Nuri. The rally was called by the Office for Consolidation and Unity (OCU), the main reformist student group, to protest against the jailing of Nuri last month by the hardline Special Court for Clergy (SCC) ... FULL TEXT

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* Karbaschi meets Rafsanjani and returns to prison

TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - The former reformist mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, imprisoned for corruption, returned to Evin prison Sunday after taking an authorised week of leave, the daily Asr-e-Azadeqan said Monday ... FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani sets out consensus platform ahead of February polls

TEHRAN, Dec 10 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is to stand as an independent in key parliamentary elections in February, on Friday set out a consensus platform ahead of the polls. "We must be moderate and always take the middle position in politics as well as economics," Rafsanjani told worshippers at the main weekly Muslim prayers here ... FULL TEXT

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* Conservative hails Rafsanjani's decision to stand in elections

TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - Habibollah Assgarolladi, a leading Iranian conservative, welcomed Saturday the decision of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsandjani to stand in next February's parliamentary elections. He also called on the conservative speaker of parliament, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, to run again, and slammed prominent reformist Abdollah Nuri as a "fanatic." ... FULL TEXT

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