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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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. >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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