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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. >>> 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 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 >>> 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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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 >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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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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* 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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> 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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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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* 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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* 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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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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