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* Director of Iranian paper arrested
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* Virtual petition to Iran attracts 10,000 people
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* President defends rights of Iranian Jews - agency
* Khatami highlights minority rights in Islamic Iran
* Jackson wants meeting with Iran
* Iran says more than 13 arrested in spy network
* Sarkuhi honored at paper forum
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Friday
June 18, 1999

* Iran cleric says Jews spied, deserve to hang

TEHRAN, June 18 (Reuters) - An influential Iranian cleric said on Friday that 13 Jews arrested on spying charges passed secrets to Israel through third countries including Turkey and deserved to hang. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, secretary of the powerful Guardian Council, said: ``They (Westerners) think...they can force us into a compromise. But we cannot deal in things like getting a concession and letting them go. Spies deserve to be hanged.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranians protest against G8 ``appeasement policy''

COLOGNE, Germany, June 18 (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians opposed to the current administration in Tehran demonstrated at the World Economic Summit on Friday against what they called the West's policy of appeasement towards Iran. ``We are asking G8 leaders to stop their appeasement policy towards Iran, to stop trade relations and to condemn Iran for their use of weapons of mass destruction,'' said Mohammad Mohaddesin, foreign affairs spokesman of the exiled Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) ... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
June 17, 1999

* Director of Iranian paper arrested

TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - The director of a weekly publication close to reformist circles in Iran was arrested Wednesday on the orders of the conservative revolutionary tribunal in Tehran, the magazine said. Hossein Kashani, director of Hoveyat-e-Khish, was taken in for questioning for having published information contrary to "public order and the public interest," officials said ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian Jews critical of outside support for spying suspects

TEHRAN, June 13 (AFP) - Statements of international support for 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying are "propaganda," according to a communique published Sunday by the official IRNA news agency and attributed to the country's Jewish community. Sympathetic remarks from abroad are "simply hostile propaganda irrelevant to the true interests and concerns of the Jewish Iranians," the communique said ... FULL TEXT

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* Teen among 13 Jews facing execution for spying in Iran

PARIS, June 17 (AFP) - A 16-year-old adolescent is among 13 Iranian Jews facing trial and possible execution in Iran on charges of spying for Israel, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) said Thursday. The teen is Navid Balazade, according to a CRIF statement ... FULL TEXT

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* Virtual petition to Iran attracts 10,000 people

JERUSALEM, June 17 (PRNewswire) -- Virtual Jerusalem has committed itself to fighting the arrest of 13 innocent Jews in Iran accused of "world arrogance" and of spying for the "Zionist regime" with the creation of an online petition and comprehensive news site ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
June 16, 1999

* Unfair trials and ill treatment of prisoners continue in Iran: Amnesty

LONDON, June 16 (AFP) - Iran continued to hold hundreds of political prisoners in 1998, many sentenced after unfair trials, the human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday in its annual report. "Reports of torture and ill treatment continued to be received," Amnesty said, adding that its information also suggested that "extrajudicial executions" had occurred. It also said human rights abuses had been committed by armed opposition groups ... FULL TEXT

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* President defends rights of Iranian Jews - agency

TEHRAN, June 16 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami, facing international criticism for Iran's arrest of 13 people charged with spying for Israel, on Wednesday repeated is pledge to defend the rights of religious minorities. ``We deem it our task to defend our Sunni (Moslem) brothers and sisters as well as Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian minorities,'' Khatami said ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
June 15, 1999

* Khatami highlights minority rights in Islamic Iran

TEHRAN, June 15 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami, facing mounting international pressure over the arrest of 13 Iranians on charges of spying for Israel, has taken personal responsibility to ensure the rights of all religious minorities. Iranian newspapers on Tuesday said Khatami, in a speech at the weekend to commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, highlighted the freedoms enjoyed by all recognised religious minorities in the Islamic republic ... FULL TEXT

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* Jackson wants meeting with Iran

June 15, 1999, NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he is still waiting for a requested meeting with Iran's U.N. ambassador over the fate of 13 Iranian Jews arrested on espionage charges in their home country. `We hope at some point such a meeting will be granted,'' Jackson told reporters Monday outside U.N. headquarters. He was joined by local rabbis and representatives of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal dioceses of New York, the Armenian Church and the National Council of Churches ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
June 14, 1999

* Iran says more than 13 arrested in spy network|

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's U.N. mission indicated in a press statement Monday that more alleged spies were recently arrested than the 13 already accused of espionage for Israel and that they included some Muslims. It appeared to be the first indication that the number of those arrested went beyond the 13 believed to be Iranian Jews and that they included Muslims ... FULL TEXT

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* Sarkuhi honored at paper forum

Monday, June 14, 1999 ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) -- Iranian editor Faraj Sarkuhi, who was imprisoned both before and after the country's Islamic revolution, received the Golden Pen of Freedom award Monday from the World Association of Newspapers. Sarkuhi, former editor-in-chief of the banned monthly magazine Adineh, told 1,100 editors and publishers from 88 countries that ``international support and world pressure'' saved his life after he was condemned to death three times ``during the tyranny of the Islamic Republic.''... FULL TEXT

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* 'Hoviyyat-e Kheesh' banned for "insults"

June 13, 1999 (Kayhan - BBC Monitoring) - The fortnightly 'Hoviyyat-e Kheesh' ['Self-Identity'] has been banned and all copies of the latest edition have been taken out of circulation. According to reports, the Islamic Revolution Court of Tehran has indicated that 'Hoviyyat-e Kheesh' has been accused of insults and defamation against the main principles of the Islamic republic's system ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami: Jews are safe in Iran

June 14, 1999 (BBC) - President Khatami of Iran has made a strong defence of the rights of religious minorities after the arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on charges of spying for Israel. Tehran radio quoted him as saying that he was responsible for the protection of all religious minorities who live in Iran. This was the first comment by Mr Khatami since the Iranian judiciary warned last week that the arrested Jews could face the death penalty. ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran Jewish leader seeks justice for 13 jailed Jews

TEHRAN, June 12 (Reuters) - An Iranian Jewish leader called in remarks published on Saturday for ``true justice'' for 13 Jews arrested in Iran on charges of spying for Israel. ``As the representative of (Iranian) Jews, I demand true justice for the suspects. If the results of investigations prove them guilty, they should be punished. But if the opposite was proved, they should be released immediately,'' Manouchehr Eliasi, the representative of Iran's 27,000-strong Jewish community in parliament said in an interview with the centrist Entekhab daily ... FULL TEXT

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* Jackson to aid 13 Jews held in Iran

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson pledged Sunday to seek freedom for 13 Jews being held in Iran as alleged spies. ``The plight of 13 Iranian Jews has worldwide implications,'' Jackson told a congregation of about 100 gathered at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan. ``Their release would send a ray of hope and light around the world.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran's dissident ayatollah defends election choice

TEHRAN, June 13 (Reuters) - Iran's top dissident cleric, whose influence reaches beyond the confines of his house arrest, has denounced attempts by conservative theologians to determine who may stand for key parliamentary polls set for next March. In an open letter to seminary students, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 76, accused the conservative Guardian Council of overstepping its authority to protect Islam and interfering directly in the democratic rights of the Iranian people ... FULL TEXT

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Open Letter from Iranian activists in Iran

May 10, 1999, (Anout Iran) - Dear Compatriots: One hundred seventy bitter days have passed since the silencing of two shining stars of freedom and liberty of the Iranian nation. In the meantime, the culprits are still free, the wheels of justice are still immobile, and the nation is still waiting [for answers]! ... FULL TEXT

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Iran Country Report

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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A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports that he had been arrested ... GO TO WEB SITE

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