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* 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
* Demonstrators come to Tehran to protest overturning
of election results
* Losers haven't learned their lesson
* Iranian Jews face secret trial as lawyers
plead for postponement
* Paris protest planned to support 13 Iranian Jews accused
of spying
* Parliament passes tough press measures
* Trial of Iranian Jews may be held in camera: court official
* Shamsolvaezin jailed
* Expediency Council bars parliamentary
probe
* More protests as seventh reformer has election overturned
* Mohtashemi summoned to court
* Ousted police chief implicates minister in student unrest
* Iran state news chief hauled into court
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Friday
April 14, 2000
* 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 13, 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
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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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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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* Losers haven't learned their lesson
April 12, 2000 (Asr-e Azadegan) -- Political columnist
Massound Behnoud looks at the history of imprisoning writers and journalists
in Iran and points out the significance of the latest one: the imprisonment
of Asr-e Azadegan's editor, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin >>>
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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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* Paris protest planned to support 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying
PARIS, April 12 (AFP) - A human rights group and the French Jewish Congress
(CRIF) plan a protest in Paris on Thursday in support of 13 Iranian Jews
accused of spying >>>
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Tuesday
April 11, 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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* 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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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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* 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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* Iran state news chief hauled into court
TEHRAN, April 9 (AFP) - The head of Iran's state IRNA news agency, hauled
into court Sunday to answer a battery of complaints, said that a more free
and open Iran would only come at a "heavy price." Fereydoun Verdinejad,
summoned in his capacity as head of the governmental daily Iran, was appearing
to answer complaints from a variety of sources, including the volunteer
Basiji Islamic militia >>>
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