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* Khatami says democracy needed for growth
* Rafsanjani vows no change in vengeance laws
* Wheat groups urge Clinton to give Iran farm credit
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* Offending articles
* Judiciary issues warning against moderate
press
* Wheat groups urge Clinton to give Iran farm credit
* Council of Experts meeting next week
* MKO says its base in Iraq attacked
* IRGC to Remain Along Afghan Border, Commander
* Freed hostages say well-treated by Iranian captors
* Opposition figure calls on Khamenei to reject extremists
* Khamenei defends eye-for-eye laws
* Court says probing police attack on campus
* U.S. reviewing Iran farm credit ban
* Iran troops kill seven armed Afghan drug smugglers
* Iraq to provide passports for Iraqi opponents in Iran
* Four European Hostages Released In Iran
* Chief justice to hold rare meetings with ministers
* No coalition between moderate party with conservatives
* Iran slams Israel's purchase of German submarine
* Intelligence chief vows to crush extremists
* Fresh political battle erupts in Iran over leading dissident
* Jews' case handed over to court for trial
* Iran says may pull back troops from Afghan border
* Iran says tests small locally built jet engine
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Friday
September 3, 1999
* Khatami says democracy needed for growth
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, under
pressure to boost growth and jobs, said only democratic reforms could revive
the economy and foreign investment. ``It is impossible to have economic
development in a socially and politically underdeveloped society,'' Khatami,
a moderate, said in a television interview late on Thursday ... FULL TEXT
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* Rafsanjani vows no change in vengeance laws
TEHRAN, Sep 3 (AFP) - Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani on Friday repeated warnings to the moderate press after a paper
proposed abolishing the death penalty and the Islamic law of vengeance.
"We will defend all the values and pillars of Islam with determination
and force," Rafsanjani said, two days after Iran's supreme leader
denounced any call to end Islamic punishments as the work of "apostates."
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* Wheat groups urge Clinton to give Iran farm credit
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Groups representing American wheat farmers
on Thursday joined the chorus of lawmakers and farm groups urging the White
House to extend export credits to Iran to boost U.S. agricultural sales
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Thursday
September 2, 1999
Offending articles
The following are op-ed pieces (in Persian) against the death penalty
were published by Neshat newspaper. In an indirect reference, Ayatollah
Khamenei said those who question Islamic laws are punishable by death:
* Hossein
Baqerzadeh: "Is state violence permissable?" (Persian)
* Emadedin
Baqi: "Execution and Islamic retribution (qesas)" (Persian)
* Neshat's
explanation for publishing the opinion pieces (Persian)
* Khamenei's
warning (English)
Audio
* BBC Persian service feature on the contrversy, including:
- Sadeq Saba's analysis
- Interview with human rights activist Hossein Baqerzadeh
LISTEN HERE
(RealAudio)
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* Judiciary issues warning against moderate press
TEHRAN, Sep 2 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated judiciary on Thursday
issued a warning against any attempts by the moderate press to breach the
pillars of the Islamic revolution. In a statement broadcast on radio, the
judiciary vigorously backed Wednesday's remarks by supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei who said "apostate" journalists opposing the country's
eye-for-an-eye laws were liable to the death penalty ... FULL
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* Wheat groups urge Clinton to give Iran farm credit
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Groups representing American wheat farmers
on Thursday joined the chorus of lawmakers and farm groups urging the White
House to extend export credits to Iran to boost U.S. agricultural sales
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* Council of Experts meeting next week
TEHRAN, Sep 2 (AFP) - Iran's powerful Council of Experts, charged with
appointing and revoking the Islamic republic's supreme leader, will hold
a rare meeting next week, press reports said Thursday. "The meeting
will be held on Monday in the holy northeastern city of Mashhad,"
Tehran papers reported, without giving details on the nature or reason
for this extraordinary meeting ... FULL
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* MKO says its base in Iraq attacked
BAGHDAD, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The Iranian opposition Mujahideen Khaliq,
based in Iraq, said on Thursday Iran had attacked one of its bases inside
Iraq, but reported no casualties ... FULL
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* IRGC to Remain Along Afghan Border, Commander
TEHRAN (AFP) - The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
said the elite force will remain along the Afghan border as long as the
Taliban are in power in Kabul, newspapers reported yesterday. ... FULL TEXT
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* Freed hostages say well-treated by Iranian captors
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Four Europeans freed after being held hostage
by drug traffickers in southern Iran said on Wednesday they had not been
mistreated during most of their two-week captivity. ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 1, 1999
* Opposition figure calls on Khamenei to reject extremists
Neshat newspaper
September 1, 1999
Yadollah Sahabi, the 95-year-old opposition figure, who is a leading
member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, has called on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
to distance himself from radical groups who carry out attacks in his name
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TEXT IN PERSIAN ... News
about Sahabi's letter in Englisg
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* Khamenei defends eye-for-eye laws
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Wednesday vigorously defended the country's eye-for-an-eye laws and
attacked moderate journalists who opposed them as "apostates,"
state radio reported. Iran's supreme leader has been lashing out at the
moderate newspaper Nehat for several days after it proposed abolishing
the death penalty as well as Iran's vengeance laws ... FULL
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* Court says probing police attack on campus
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Iran's military said on Wednesday it was
investigating complaints against police involved in a recent assault on
students, which killed at least one person and injured 200 people. ...
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* U.S. reviewing Iran farm credit ban
SEATTLE, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The United States is considering giving
Iran credit to buy U.S. food despite the Clinton Administration's initial
decision not to provide such aid, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said
Wednesday. Glickman added that a $1 billion pilot programme of food aid
to Russia was working well and may be extended into next year ... FULL
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* Iran troops kill seven armed Afghan drug smugglers
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Army troops killed seven Afghan drug smugglers
in clashes on Tuesday near Iran's eastern borders with Afghanistan and
Pakistan, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday ... FULL
TEXT
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* Iraq to provide passports for Iraqi opponents in Iran: newspaper
BAGHDAD, Aug 31 (AFP) - Iraq will issue passports for Iraqi opposition
figures living in Iran because the Iranian authorities are harassing them,
the weekly Al-Ittihad newspaper said Tuesday ... FULL
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Tuesday
August 31, 1999
* Four European Hostages Released In Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Four Europeans held hostage by drug traffickers
in Iran for more than two weeks were released unharmed Tuesday, Iranian
state media reported. ``An informed source said here Tuesday evening that
a group of five tourists comprising of one Iranian and four Europeans ...
were released by their kidnappers at around 20:30 hours local time Tuesday,''
Iran's news agency IRNA said ... FULL
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* Chief justice to hold rare meetings with ministers
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - The new head of Iran's judiciary system will
hold highly unusual meetings with the foreign and interior ministers, Iranian
sources said Monday, as the courts prepare to try 13 Iranian Jews on charges
of spying for Israel ... FULL
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* No coalition between Iran 's moderate party with conservatives
August 29 , Teheran (Deutsche Presse / dpa) - There is to be no link-up
between the moderates close to President Mohammad Khatami and the conservative
opposition to form a coalition for next year's parliamentary elections,
the Teheran daily Khordad reported Sunday ... FULL
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* Iran slams Israel's purchase of German submarine
TEHRAN, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday condemned Israel for acquiring
a German submarine reported to be capable of launching nuclear-tipped missiles,
saying it threatened Middle East security ... FULL
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Monday
August 30, 1999
* Intelligence chief vows to crush extremists
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence chief has vowed to crack
down on religious extremists, in a clear sign of growing support for President
Mohammad Khatami within the security establishment. Newspapers on Saturday
quoted Ali Yunesi, who was appointed intelligence minister by Khatami in
February to reform the once-dreaded secret service, as saying the authorities
were determined to do away with so-called ``pressure groups,'' hardline
vigilantes waging a violent campaign to undermine Khatami's liberal reform
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* Fresh political battle erupts in Iran over leading dissident
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - A leading Iranian dissident close to reformist
President Mohammad Khatami is facing fresh allegations of conspiracy against
the Islamic republic's clerical regime, press reports said Monday ... FULL TEXT
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* Jews' case handed over to court for trial
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence service has handed over
the case of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel to the judiciary
for trial, a newspaper said on Saturday ... FULL
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* Iran says may pull back troops from Afghan border
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Iran plans to pull back its elite Revolutionary
Guards from the border with Afghanistan, where they were stationed after
a row with the ruling Taleban movement last year, the Guards' commander
said on Monday ... FULL
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* Iran says tests small locally built jet engine
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Iran on Monday tested a small jet engine,
the first built by the country's military industry, Iranian state television
reported ... FULL
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