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August 28-September 1, 2000 / Shahrivar 7-11, 1379

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Friday
September 1, 2000

Majlis Speaker meet American Jewish leaders

JERUSALEM (AP) - American Jewish leaders have met with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, the first such meeting since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, one of the Jewish leaders said Friday. The meeting took place in New York on Thursday, said Malcolm Hoenlein, director of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He said Mehdi Karrubi, the speaker of the parliament, or Majlis, sought out the Jewish leaders at a reception during an interparliamentary conference >>> FULL TEXT

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* Majlis Speaker meet American Jewish leaders
* Five arrested as unrest in Khorramabad flares again: paper
* Iran says unrest in provinces over as investigation begins
* Court orders whipping, then death for murder
* Eight injured as unrest erupts again in Khorramabad
* Uneasy Calm Prevails in Iranian City
* Iran jails lawyer over US radio interview
* Iranian illegal immigrants believed drowned in Croatia
* Governor attacked in unrest
* Iran students accuse pro-Khamenei forces of attacking
* Dozens arrested, wounded in Iran clashes over reform
* Intelligence Ministry lauds informer network
* Head of a film & sports newspaper summoned

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Thursday
August 31, 2000

Five arrested as unrest in Khorramabad flares again: paper

TEHRAN, Aug 31 (AFP) - Riots erupted for the seventh straight night in the western Iranian city of Khoramabad as demonstrators smashed bank windows and hurled Molotov cocktails, press reports said Thursday. The Kayhan paper said five people were arrested in the latest troubles in the city, which has been on edge since two leading critics arrived last Thursday to address a pro-reform student conference >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran says unrest in provinces over as investigation begins

TEHRAN, Aug 31 (AFP) - Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which is chaired by President Mohammad Khatami, on Thursday sent an investigative team to the riot-torn western city of Khoramabad, state radio said. The announcement came as Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi was quoted in the press saying that the unrest which erupted in the city last week, leaving one dead and dozens injured, was now firmly under control >>> FULL TEXT

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Court orders whipping, then death for murder of Islamic fighter

TEHRAN, Aug 31 (AFP) - An Iranian man will be put to death next week for murdering a member of the country's volunteer Basiji Islamic militia during a botched kidnapping, a newspaper reported Thursday. Hamid Heydari was also sentenced to be whipped before being executed after he stabbed Basiji fighter Timor Hassan-Zadeh to death last month in the city of Rey, the Jame-Jam paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
August 30, 2000

Eight people injured as unrest erupts again in Khorramabad

TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - Iran's western city of Khoramabad erupted in violence again overnight as rioters clashed with security forces, leaving eight people injured, press reports said Wednesday. Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails Tuesday evening and the unrest continued until elite police units and anti-riot forces brought the situation under control, the Kayhan paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Uneasy Calm Prevails in Iranian City

KHORRAMABAD, Iran (AP) - Riot police dispersed a crowd of youths Tuesday as an uneasy calm settled over this western Iranian city following days of violence over a meeting of reformist students. Some 20,000 people marched earlier in the day in the funeral procession of a policeman who was killed in riots on Sunday. Ardeshir Karami was somehow shot during fighting between supporters of students from Iran's largest student group, who had come to Khorramabad for their annual conference, and hard-line vigilantes. Exactly how he was shot remained unclear >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran jails lawyer over US radio interview

TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - The defence lawyer for several pro-reform Iranian newspapers banned earlier this year was arrested in connection with a US radio interview, the state IRNA news agency said Wednesday. Mohammad-Ali Jedari-Forouqi was jailed Monday on charges of helping the editor of a pro-reform journal spread "false allegations" about the Iranian courts in an interview with US radio network Voice of America (VOA) >>> FULL TEXT

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Iranian illegal immigrants believed drowned in attempt to enter Croatia

SARAJEVO, Aug 29 (AFP) - Nine Iranians immigrants attempting to clandestinely cross into Croatia most likely drowned when their boat capsized on the river Sava which marks Bosnia's border with Croatia, the UN said Tuesday. The accident occurred late Monday night near the northern Bosnian Serb town of Srpski Brod when one of two boats carrying Iranian migrants capsized, UN spokesman Douglas Coffman told reporters >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
August 29, 2000

Governor attacked during funeral for officer killed in unrest

TEHRAN, Aug 29 (AFP) - The governor of northwestern Lorestan province was attacked by protesters Tuesday during the funeral for a policeman killed during recent clashes in the province, Iran's official news agency said. Nurollah Abedi was beaten by a group of demonstrators who surrounded him before police intervened to take him to safety. There was no word on his condition, and no arrests were made, it said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran students accuse pro-Khamenei forces of attacking them in riots

TEHRAN, Aug 29 (AFP) - Iran's leading pro-reform student group on Tuesday accused troops under the control of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of attacking them during the past few days of bloody riots in the town of Khoramabad. The violence swirling around a meeting of the student Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU) from Thursday to Sunday left one person dead and dozens injured in the worst unrest in Iran in more than a year >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
August 28, 2000

Dozens arrested, wounded in Iran clashes over reform student meeting

TEHRAN, Aug 27 (AFP) - Dozens of people were injured in violent clashes between reform supporters of President Mohammad Khatami and Islamic hardliners in the Iranian city of Khoramabad, press reports said on Sunday. The unrest followed days of protests after two prominent progressives were blocked last week from addressing a conference of a leading pro-reform student group holding its annual meeting in the city >>> FULL TEXT

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Intelligence Ministry lauds informer network

August 27, 2000 TEHRAN (AP)-- Iran's intelligence minister has revealed, for the first time, that his ministry has thousands of employees and relies on hundreds of thousands of informers, Tehran television reported Sunday. Ali Yunesi also said the ministry was undergoing reforms, but he gave no other details, according to the broadcast >>> FULL TEXT

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Head of a film & sports newspaper summoned to hardline court

TEHRAN, Aug 28 (AFP) - The managing editor of a film and sport newspaper has been summoned to appear at Tehran's conservative Special Court for Clergy (SCC), the official IRNA news agency reported Monday. Cleric Ali Afsahi, the director of the Cinema-Varzesh (cinema and sports) weekly, has to appear at the court Wednesday where he will be informed of the charges brought up against him, IRNA said >>> FULL TEXT

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