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* U.S. sanctions imposed Iranian entities
* Khamenei defends "legal violence"
to maintain order
* Khamenei rejects "US-style" reform
* Albright cautiously welcomes Iran's delay of Jews' trial
* Khatami facing political challenge in secret trial of
Jews
* Iranian Jews may be pawns of power
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* Spy trial puts position of Iran's
Jews in jeopardy
* Worry mixed with optimism for Shiraz Jews
* Euro MPs call for Iranian Jews' release
* Britain to keep pushing Iran over spy trial of Jews
* Journalists demonstrate in Iran
* Oman announces security deal with Iran
* 4,600 Iraqi POWs in Iran refuse to go home
* Terrorism victims appeal for help
* Demonstrators come to Tehran to protest overturning
of election results
* Court orders police to seize polluting
oil tankers
* Iranian Jews face secret trial as lawyers plead for postponement
* Two Japanese sentenced over illegal exports to Iran
* Parliament passes tough press measures
* Iran claims to have boarded ten more Iraqi oil tankers
* Trial of Iranian Jews may be held in camera: court official
* Parliament gives Tehran city hall only limited control
over police
* Shamsolvaezin jailed
* Expediency Council bars parliamentary
probe
* More protests as seventh reformer has election overturned
* Mohtashemi summoned to court
* Iran's seizure of second oil tanker may signal a crackdown:
US
* Iran releases 500 more Iraqi POWs
* Ousted police chief implicates minister in student unrest
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Friday
April 14, 2000
* U.S. sanctions imposed Iranian entities for alleged missile technology
transfers
April 14, (U.S. State Department daily briefing) -- Spokeman Jamed Rubin:
We have imposed penalties on North Korean and Iranian entities for knowingly
engaging in missile technology transfers. These penalties willbe announced
in the Federal Register very shortly >>>
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* Khamenei defends "legal violence" to maintain order
TEHRAN, April 14 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Friday defended "legal violence" to keep order in the Islamic
republic after riots erupted following the reversal of election results.
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* Khamenei rejects "US-style" reform
TEHRAN, April 14 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Friday rejected any "US-style" reforms in the Islamic republic,
saying they could destroy the principles of the Muslim faith >>> FULL TEXT
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* Albright cautiously welcomes Iran's delay of Jews' trial
WASHINGTON, April 14 (AFP) - Iran's decision to postpone the trial of13
Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel was cautiously welcomedby US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. "That is one possible step
in the right direction," she told a Senatecommittee Thursday, adding
that it was "an issue that has been of hugeconcern to me," and
that she discusses frequently with foreign officials >>>
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* Khatami facing political challenge in secret trial of Jews
TEHRAN, April 14 (AFP) - The trial of 13 Iranian Jews, which has againthrown
the international spotlight on the Islamic republic, could harmPresident
Mohammad Khatami's plans to improve ties with the rest of theworld. The
secret trial, which adjourned after only an hour Thursday and willreopen
in May, seems more and more like a political struggle betweenpro-Khatami
reformists and conservatives who control the nation's courts >>> FULL TEXT
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* Iranian Jews may be pawns of power
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Thirteen Iranian Jews on trial for espionage may
be caught in the power struggle between reformistsand hard-liners in Iran's
government. Liberal allies of President Mohammad Khatami are trying to
move toward better ties with the United States and the West.But religious
hard-liners, who control certain government sectors such as the judiciary,
want to preserve the anti-Westernspirit of the 1979 Islamic revolution
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Thursday
April 6, 2000
* Spy trial puts position of Iran's Jews in jeopardy
By Geneive Abdo in Shiraz, Iran
The Guardian (London)
April 13, 2000
The long-awaited trial of 13 Jews on espionage and related charges begins
today, placing Iran under international pressure and prompting fear within
Iran's Jewish community that their freedom could be threatened >>> FULL TEXT
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* Worry mixed with optimism for Shiraz Jews
SHIRAZ, Iran, April 13 (AFP) - Jews in the Iranian city of Shiraz were
trying to stay upbeat Thursday as 10 of their number went on trial accused
of spying. A crowd of about 100 people, including relatives of those on
trial, gathered on the street outside the courthouse, barred from entering
the revolutionary court >>>
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* Euro MPs call for Iranian Jews' release
STRASBOURG, April 13 (AFP) - The European Parliament called upon Iran
on Thursday to free 13 Jews accused of spying for Israel if it cannot give
them a fair trial with international observers present.) In a resolution
adopted by a show of hands, Euro MPs also requested that the European Union
send an official delegation to visit the prisoners, and called for Tehran
to endorse a moratorium on the death penalty >>>
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* Britain to keep pushing Iran over spy trial of Jews
LONDON, April 13 (AFP) - Britain called Thursday for the espionage trial
of 13 Iranian Jews to be held in public, and vowed to keep the pressure
on Tehran to ensure fair legal process in the hearing, which opened earlier
in the day. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said that the Jews, who are accused
of spying for Israel and the United States, had to be given a proper defence
team >>>
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* Journalists demonstrate in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Apr. 12 -- Journalists protested Wednesday against
the jailing of a leading liberal newspaper's editor-in-chief on charges
of insulting Islam, while some 400 people demonstrated against the annulment
of reformists' election victories in their towns by a hard-line body >>>
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* Oman announces security deal with Iran
ABU DHABI, April 13 (AFP) - Oman sought to reassure the United Arab
Emirates Thursday about the nature of its relations with Iran, with the
Omani foreign minister saying the two countries had signed a pact on security,
not a defence agreement. "What was published recently on the subject
of this deal is wrong," said Yussef bin Alawi bin Abdullah.>>> FULL
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* 4,600 Iraqi POWs in Iran refuse to go home
BAGHDAD, April 13 (AFP) - More than 4,600 former Iraqi prisoners of
war living in Iran refuse to be repatriated, the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Thursday. "ICRC delegates have interviewed
more than 4,600 Iraqi POWs living in Iran who stated that they did not
wish to be repatriated", the international organisation said in a
statement received here >>>
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* Terrorism victims appeal for help
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former hostages and the families of victims of alleged
state-sponsored terrorism appealed to Congress on Thursday for help in
collecting multimillion-dollar judgments they have been awarded. ``The
Clinton administration has continued to object to every practical proposal
we have made,'' said Terry Anderson, who won a $341 million federal court
award against Iran last month >>>
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Wednesday
April 12, 2000
* Demonstrators come to Tehran to protest overturning of election
results
TEHRAN, April 12 (AFP) - Several hundred demonstrators came from out
of town Wednesday to protest outside the interior ministry in Tehran after
the victory of reformist candidates in their areas in February's parliamentary
elections was overturned. The protestors gathered in two separate groups,
one from the northwestern town of Khalkhal and the other from Damavand
near Tehran, and waved placards hostile to the conservative-led Council
of Guardians which invalidated the results of the election >>> FULL TEXT
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* Court orders police to seize polluting oil tankers
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - An Iranian court Wednesday ordered police to
seize foreign oil tankers blamed for polluting a resort beach in the Gulf,
state radio said. The ruling follows an Iranian crackdown on smuggled Iraqi
oil in the Gulf, amid rising tension between the two countries. A court
in Kish ruled that any ship illegally transporting oil in Iranian Gulf
waters or loading or off-loading crude off the southern tourist island
should be impounded >>>
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* Iranian Jews face secret trial as lawyers plead for postponement
TEHRAN, April 12 (AFP) - Thirteen Iranian Jews faced a closed-doors
trial Thursday on charges of spying and harming state security, as their
lawyers called for a postponement, saying they had only just been allowed
to see the evidence. The Jews, some of whom face the death penalty if convicted
of spying for Iran's arch-enemies the United States and Israel, will be
held in secret before a hardline revolutionary court in the southern city
of Shiraz, the press office of the Tehran law courts told AFP Wednesday
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* Two Japanese sentenced over illegal exports to Iran
TOKYO, April 12 (AFP) - Two Japanese businessmen were given suspended
two-year prison terms Wednesday for illegally shipping parts for anti-tank
rocket launchers to Iran. The two, former directors of the trading house
Sun Beam K.K. in Tokyo, were also fined 1.5 million yen (14,150 dollars)
each in the case which has also involved three Iranians, including a former
ambassador here >>>
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Tuesday
April 4, 2000
* Parliament passes tough press measures
TEHRAN, April 11 (AFP) - Iran's outgoing conservative parliament on
Tuesday approved parts of a tough new press law whose first reading last
year helped spark student protests that erupted into six days of bloody
riots. The parliament, which will step down in a few weeks to make way
for a reform-dominated legislature that won in February's elections, is
to debate the remaining points in the bill on Wednesday >>>
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* Iran claims to have boarded ten more Iraqi oil tankers
TEHRAN, April 11 (AFP) - Iran has boarded ten oil tankers smuggling
Iraqi oil through the Gulf in the past two days, the official news agency
IRNA reported Tuesday, quoting a senior Revolutionary Guards naval officer.
Issa Golverdi, head of the Guards naval base at Bandar Abbas, in southern
Iran, said the ten tankers, flying various flags, had been seized Monday
and Tuesday with a total of 45,000 tons of oil from Iraq >>>
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* Trial of Iranian Jews may be held in camera: court official
TEHRAN, April 11 (AFP) - The trial of 13 Iranian Jews on charges of
espionage and acting against Iranian security interests, scheduled to start
later this week, may not be open to the public, a court official told AFP
Tuesday. "Generally, everywhere in the world, trials dealing with
security questions are not heard in public, and our country is no different,"
said Hossein Gholi Amir, chairman of the Fars province law courts >>> FULL
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* Parliament gives Tehran city hall only limited control over police
TEHRAN, April 11 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated parliament Tuesday
backed the army against the pro-reformist municipality in their dispute
with the army over who should control the capital's police force. The parliament
stripped a government bill which would have put the police under the authority
of city mayor Morteza Alvira of most of its measures >>>
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Monday
April 10, 2000
* Shamsolvaezin jailed
TEHRAN, April 10 (Reuters) - An Iranian editor who challenged the Islamic
law of retribution was jailed on Monday after losing an appeal against
a 30-month sentence imposed for criticising capital punishment. Mashallah
Shamsolvaezin, a leading reformist, was jailed for offending religious
values after the appeal court upheld the sentence imposed by a hardline
press court, his colleagues at Asr-e Azadegan newspaper told Reuters >>> FULL
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* Expediency Council bars parliamentary probe
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An advisory body has ruled that Parliament cannot
probe organizations supervised by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
including the armed forces, a newspaper reported Monday. The decision by
the Expediency Council appears to be an effort by hard-liners in the ruling
clergy to tighten their grip on power and keep the newly elected reformist
Parliament under control >>>
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* More protests as seventh reformer has election overturned
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - Protests broke out in Iran for a second day
after a conservative council overturned the election of another reformist
MP-elect, bringing the total to seven, the Iranian news agency said Saturday.
The demonstration Friday in Tehran province came a day after angry voters
went on the rampage in the northwestern city of Khalkhal after the council
cancelled the election of a reformist and handed the seat to a conservative
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* Mohtashemi summoned to court
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - A close ally of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
who has used his newspaper to launch harsh criticisms of conservatives
in the regime has been summoned to appear in court, his paper said Saturday.
Ali Akbar Mohtashemi has been ordered to appear before the Special Court
of Clergy on April 23 following complaints filed by a cleric in the western
city of Hamedan, the Bayan paper said without giving further details >>> FULL
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* Iran's seizure of second oil tanker may signal a crackdown: US
ABU DHABI, April 10 (AFP) - Iran's seizure of a second tanker in less
than a week for allegedly smuggling Iraqi oil may signal a crackdown by
Tehran on the flow of contraband oil, US Defense Secretary William Cohen
said Monday. Cohen said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could be be accumulating
up to a billion dollars a year from oil smuggled through Iranian waters,
while Iran has benefitted to the tune of 500 million dollars a year >>> FULL
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* Iran releases 500 more Iraqi POWs
BAGHDAD, April 10 (AFP) - Iran has released 500 more Iraqi POWs in the
second such exchange in a matter of days, the official Iraqi news agency
INA reported Monday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
supervised the operation Sunday at the Al-Munziriya border post, 190 kilometres
(115 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the agency said >>>
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* Ousted police chief implicates minister in student unrest
TEHRAN, April 8 (AFP) - Tehran's former chief of police, on trial for
the brutal suppression of a student protest last year, testified Saturday
that his officers had fallen into a trap set by unidentified instigators.
Farhad Nazari, accused of personally ordering police to quash the protest
which erupted into six days of deadly riots last July, also implicated
Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh in the scandal >>>
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