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* Iran students vow to keep up protest
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* Religious students protest at newspaper cartoons
* Missing, pro-reform Iranian student leader returns
* Iran frees Jews charged with spying
* Conservatives concede possibility of poll defeat
* Hardliner: Iran enemies back reform
* List of candidates
* Possible deportation from Turkey
* Khatami urges huge turnout in Iranian elections
* Hard-liners reinvent themselves
* US will closely watch Iranian election results: Albright
* Brother-in-law of Khamenei in jail with Abdollah Nuri
* Iran trial of 13 Jews to open in next few weeks: official
* Anti-Iran extremist arrested in Ottawa

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Friday
February 4, 2000

* Iran students vow to keep up protest until culture minister sacked

QOM, Iran, Feb 4 (AFP) - Several hundred Iranian theology students vowed Friday they would not end their sit-in at a mosque here until the government's moderate pro-reform culture minister is removed from office. The students, who began gathering at the university mosque in the holy city of Qom on Wednesday night, are demanding the dismissal of Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani over a newspaper's caricatures of one of their teachers >>> FULL TEXT

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* Janati cleric says meddlers will "die trying" to interfere with election

TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - A top conservative Iranian cleric on Friday rejected any foreign interference in this month's key parliamentary elections, saying those who attempted to meddle with the vote would "die trying." Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, head of a powerful supervisory council, appeared to be reacting to recent comments by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who said her nation would watch the results with great interest >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
February 3, 2000

* Religious students protest at newspaper cartoons

TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - Some 1,000 Iranian theological students demonstrated Thursday in the holy city of Qom after a reformist newspaper published cartoons which they said ridiculed one of their teachers, press reports said. The demonstrators marched from the theological college to the city's main mosque, calling for the resignation of reformist Culture Minister Ataollah Mojerani, whom they blamed for the "cultural depravity" of the country >>> FULL TEXT

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* Missing, pro-reform Iranian student leader returns

TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - A pro-reform Iranian student leader allegedly kidnapped about three weeks ago has returned safe and sound, the Islamic Association of Students that he heads said Thursday. Abbas Pazuki "who was kidnapped by unknown individuals has been freed," the association, based in Semnan, east of Tehran, said in a statement >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
February 2, 2000

* Iran frees Jews charged with spying

TEHRAN, Iran ­­ Three of 13 Iranian Jews jailed for the past year on accusations of spying for the United States and Israel were released on bail Wednesday, weeks before the high-profile case is expected to go to trial. The three were freed because the accusations against them were less serious than those against the 10 Jews still being held, judiciary spokesman Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeqi told the official Islamic Republic News Agency. Bail amounts and specific allegations were not given >>> FULL TEXT

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* Conservatives concede possibility of poll defeat

February 2, 2000 (Financial Times) -- Prominent members of Iran's powerful conservative coalition have started to speak openly about the prospect of losing their parliamentary majority in elections this month, but reject predictions of a landslide victory by reformist allies of President Mohammad Khatami. Signals that the conservatives would accept defeat gracefully if the February 18 vote went against them are likely to raise the spirits of reformists, whose own coalition risks breaking apart over personality and economic issues >>> FULL TEXT

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* Hardliner: Iran enemies back reform

TEHRAN, Iran ­­ A leader of Iran's hard-line conservatives was quoted Wednesday as saying that Iran's enemies want reformists to win in crucial Feb. 18 parliamentary polls. "Western-intoxicated intellectuals penetrated the constitutional movement under the pretext of reforms and deviated it from it's path," outgoing Parliament Speaker Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri was quoted as saying by Mosharekat daily >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
February 1, 2000

* List of candidates

January 31, 2000 (Iran News) -- The leftist Majma-e Rouhaniyoun-e Mobarez (MRM) has published its preliminary list of candidates from Tehran for the 6th Majlis (parliament). The list has surprised a lot of political analysts because of the diametrically opposed ideologies and beliefs of several of the nominees. The list includes the names of MRM's own Mehdi Karrubi, Majid Ansari, and Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, as well as Islamic Iran Participation Front's (IIPF) Mohammad Reza Khatami and Abbas Abdi, Islamic Revolution Mojahedin >>> FULL TEXT

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* Possible deportation from Turkey

January 31, 2000 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) -- On January 26, 2000, the Turkish police accused all Iranian refugees residing in the border town of Agri of entering Turkey legally and with passports though they have registered with the authorities and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as having entered without official documents. In Turkey, those entering without passports must file their claims within ten days at a border town nearest where they entered Turkey. Approximately 500 Iranian refugees live in Agri >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
January 31, 2000

* Khatami urges huge turnout in Iranian elections

TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami called Monday for a massive turnout in next month's general elections to show support for his government, the state news agency IRNA reported. Khatami was speaking at a wreath-laying at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, in south Tehran, at the start of 10 days of celebrations to mark the 21st anniversary of the revolution >>> FULL TEXT

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* Hard-liners reinvent themselves

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - With only a few weeks until Iran's legislative elections, Islamic hard-liners are trying to portray a more moderate image to attract voters they've alienated by attacking reformers >>> FULL TEXT

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* US will closely watch Iranian election results: Albright

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 (AFP) - The United States will be closely watching the result of next month's legislative elections in Iran to assess the chances of rebuilding relations between the two countries, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Sunday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Brother-in-law of Khamenei in jail with Abdollah Nuri

TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - A brother-in-law of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who used to broadcast from Baghdad against the Tehran regime is sharing a prison cell with reformist hero Abdollah Nuri, press reports said Sunday. Sheikh Ali Tehrani, 75, was jailed last week >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran trial of 13 Jews to open in next few weeks: official

TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - The trial of 13 Jews and eight Iranian Muslims accused of spying for Israel and the United States will open "in the coming weeks," judiciary spokesman Mohammed Mir-Sadeqi told AFP Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Anti-Iran extremist arrested in Ottawa

OTTAWA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A suspected member of Mujahideen Khalq, Iran's main armed opposition group, was arrested in Ottawa in December, a Canadian immigration official said on Saturday. Huguette Shouldice, a spokeswoman for Immigration Canada, confirmed a report in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper that Mahnaz Samadi, an Iranian national believed to be in her early 40s, was arrested following a joint investigation involving CSIS, Canada's spy agency, and the immigration department >>> 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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Missing: Pirouz Davani

A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports that he had been arrested ... GO TO WEB SITE

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