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* Iran's supreme court upholds death sentence
* Foreign Minister to visit Britain, Egypt, Ireland and Turkey: paper
* Nouri seeks quashing of dissent conviction
* Conservative slams TV broadcast of Rafsanjani comments
* Iran frees jailed German businessman on bail
* Opposition criticises Russian intervention in Chechnya
* Khatami's brother to start paper
* Iran to release German businessman on bail-paper
* Israel-Syria talks causing rift between Damascus and Tehran
* Tehran air pollution continues to worsen
* Rabbani asks ex-general to return to fight against Taliban
* Rafsanjani sees end to Iran-U.S. hostility

* Rafsanjani says that restrictions on Montazeri are to be eased
* Rafsanjani backs amnesty for Karbaschi
* Iran urges more U.N. efforts to end Afghan war
* Defiant Iran cleric challenges leader from jail
* 6,800 register to run in Iran parliament elections
* Parliament gives judiciary more power in reformist setback
* Pollution keeps old, sick and very young at home in Tehran
* 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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Friday
December 24, 1999

* Yazdi wants to curb press

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The government should curb the press before its ``unlimited'' freedom had serious consequences, a leading hard-line cleric in Iran said Friday. ``Stop this trend of insults. We have to do something to stop it, not just talk about stopping it,'' Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi told worshippers at the traditional Friday prayers sermon at Tehran University >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
December 23, 1999

* Iran's supreme court upholds death sentence for militiaman's killer

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - Iran's supreme court has upheld the death sentence imposed on a young man found guilty of the stabbing death of a volunteer Islamic Basiji militiaman, newspapers reported Thursday. The pro-government Iran daily said the court upheld the sentence on Morteza Amini-Moghadem, who was convicted of ambushing 22-year-old Hadi Mohebi and knifing him to death in his father's shop >>> FULL TEXT

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* Foreign Minister to visit Britain, Egypt, Ireland and Turkey: paper

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - Iran's foreign minister will make a major tour abroad next month to Britain, Egypt, Ireland and Turkey, the daily Iran News reported on Thursday. Kamal Kharazi will kick off the tour January 17 with a stop in Turkey, said the paper, which is considered close to the foreign ministry >>> FULL TEXT

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* Nouri seeks quashing of dissent conviction

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Leading Iranian reformer Abdollah Nouri has demanded the quashing of a five-year jail sentence passed on him by a clerical court on dissent charges, newspapers reported on Thursday. Nouri, a popular Shi'ite Moslem cleric close to President Mohammad Khatami, made the request in a letter to Prosecutor General Ayatollah Morteza Moqtadaei >>> FULL TEXT

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* Conservative slams TV broadcast of Rafsanjani comments

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - A conservative candidate for Iran's legislative elections said Thursday the television broadcast of a news conference by former prime minister Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, also a candidate, was illegal. "Replying to questions ... is a right for each citizen but the broadcast of a candidate's comments on television is illegal," said former labour minister Ahmad Tavakoli in a letter addressed to the Council of Discernment, a constitutional comittee, in extracts published by official agency IRNA >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran frees jailed German businessman on bail

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A German businessman once held on death row in Iran for illicit sex with a Moslem woman left prison in Tehran on Thursday after being released on bail pending a new trial, security officials said. The officials told journalists assembled outside the high-security Evin prison late in the day that Hofer was in an ambulance that had left the complex followed by a German embassy vehicle >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iranian opposition criticises Russian intervention in Chechnya

TEHRAN, Dec 23 (AFP) - The tolerated opposition Iran Freedom Movement (IFM) on Thursday denounced the Russian army's intervention in Chechnya and asked the United Nations to halt the shedding of Muslim Chechen blood. "We consider that the Russian army's offensive against the innocent people of Chechnya is immoral, against human values, human rights and the UN charter," IFM secretary general Ibrahim Yazdi wrote in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
December 22, 1999

* Khatami's brother to start paper

TEHRAN, Dec 22 (Asr-e Azadegan) - A new pro-Khatami newspaper will hit the newsstands on Saturday. "Mosharekat" (Cooperation) will be headed by the president's brother, Mohammad Reza Khatami >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran to release German businessman on bail-paper

TEHRAN, Dec 22 (Reuters) - An Iranian court has agreed to release on bail a German businessman who had earlier been held on death row for engaging in illicit sex with a Moslem woman, a state-run newspaper reported on Wednesday. Helmut Hofer, 58, was detained in late 1997 on charges of adultery with an Iranian woman and later convicted >>> FULL TEXT

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* Israel-Syria talks causing rift between Damascus and Tehran

TEHRAN, Dec 22 (AFP) - The prospect of peace between Syria and Israel is straining the long friendship between Damascus and Tehran, which both support radical Palestinian groups opposed to the peace process. "After more than 20 years of special ties, Iran and Syria are beginning to split over the thorny question of peace with Israel," an Arab diplomat here told AFP on Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Tehran air pollution continues to worsen

TEHRAN, Dec 22 (AFP) - Air quality in Tehran was slightly worse Wednesday as a yellow cloud hovered over the city for the fifth day in a row, the official news agency IRNA reported. "The level of carbon monoxide increased again Wednesday morning after having slipped" overnight, the air quality monitoring services in Tehran said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rabbani asks ex-communist general to return to fight against Taliban

KABUL, Dec 22 (AFP) - Ousted Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani has asked former communist general Abdul Rashid Dostam to return to Afghanistan and fight against the Taliban, a spokesman said Wednesday. Rabbani held meetings with Dostam and Afghan Shiite Hezb-i-Wahdat faction leader Karim Khalili in Iran during a four-day visit, said spokesman, Abdullah (only 1st name available) >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
December 21, 1999

* Rafsanjani sees end to Iran-U.S. hostility

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a front-runner in parliamentary elections, Tuesday forecast warmer relations with the United States and said talks could begin if Washington freed Iranian assets. Rafsanjani's comments came one day after jailed reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri questioned Iran's anti-U.S. stance and challenged the country's supreme clerical leader in an open letter published by newspapers >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani says that restrictions on Ayatollah Montazeri are to be eased

TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Iran has decided to progressively lift restrictive measures against leading dissident Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Tuesday. "The Supreme Security Council has approved the lifting of restrictions against Ayatollah Montazeri," Rafsanjani told a press conference in Tehran >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani backs amnesty for former mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi

TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Tuesday backed the possibility of a pardon for former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, who is in prison on corruption charges. "There is a possibility for an amnesty and I would support it," he told a press conference in the Iranian capital, adding that he had met the former mayor on two occasions last week >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran urges more U.N. efforts to end Afghan war

TEHRAN, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called on Tuesday for more efforts by the United Nations to end the civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan, Iran's news agency IRNA reported. Speaking to ousted Afghan President Burhannudin Rabbani, Khatami also called for power-sharing between the Afghan opposition, headed by Rabbani, and the Taleban government which controls 90 percent of the war-torn country >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
December 20, 1999

* Defiant Iran cleric challenges leader from jail

TEHRAN, Dec 20 (Reuters)- Jailed Iranian reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri issued a new challenge to Iran's supreme clerical leader in an open letter written in his prison cell and published by newspapers on Monday. ``What I have published...said in court and what I have written here are only a small part of the righteous demands of the people,'' Nouri, jailed on dissent charges by a hardline court, said in the letter addressed to the prosecutor >>> FULL TEXT

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* 6,800 register to run in Iran parliament elections

TEHRAN, Dec 18 (Reuters) - About 6,800 Iranians have signed up to run in crucial parliamentary polls in February, which will pit reformists close to President Mohammad Khatami against conservative opponents, election officials said on Saturday. It is the largest number of entrants in an election in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, but the actual number contending for the parliament's 290 seats in the February 18 vote could be much smaller after a two-stage screening >>> FULL TEXT

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* Parliament gives judiciary more power in reformist setback

TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-led parliament on Monday handed the chief justice sweeping new powers and administrative and financial freedoms, sources said, in the latest setback to the reform agenda of President Mohammad Khatami. They said parliament on Sunday and Monday passed a series of measures giving Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi licence to annul verdicts or request new trials if he found court decisions went against sharia or Islamic law >>> FULL TEXT

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* Pollution keeps old, sick and very young at home in Tehran

TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - Old people and children, and people with heart conditions, were advised Monday not to venture out into Tehran's smog-filled streets as pollution levels rose, the official IRAN news agency reported. The municipal authorities repeated their request to residents to avoid using their cars if possible >>> FULL TEXT

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