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* Khatami's reformist brother leads Tehran race
* Iran awaits poll results as reformists see victory
* Reformists favored in Iranian vote
* Khatami congratulates people on large election turnout
* Albright "interested" in large voter turnout in election

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* Iran goes to the polls for Khatami's "day of destiny"
* Khatami urges big Iran vote turnout
* Even in conservative bastion, some residents to vote pro-reform
* Reformers confident before Friday poll
* Leading reformist wants to see women take up ministerial posts
* Karbaschi puts new paper on streets
* President calls on Iranians to vote to help him
* Final campaign day in Iran
* Iran Holy City Doubles as Hotbed of Reform Politics
* Albright says Iranian reformers gaining popularity

* Jewish MP candidate expresses hopes for jailed Jews
* Calls for Iran to stop jamming broadcasts
* Hashemi "Most Reasonable" on Iran-US Relations

* Opposition group calls for massive turnout in elections
* Reform in Iran now unstoppable says Khatami's brother
* One killed in new brawl at an election meeting in Bandar Abbas
* BBC radio programmes 'jammed' in Iran
* EU voices dismay at attacks in Iran
* Bailed Iranian Jew swears it was a misunderstanding
* Ex-hostage files lawsuit against Iran
* Clinton says US seeking partnership with Iran
* Iran candidate seeks U.S. talks
* Thousands of pro-reform students boo mention of Rafsanjani
* Key reformers risk radicals' anger by backing Rafsanjani

* Iran nixes decision on candidates
* Minority candidate wins first-ever backing of mainstream party
* U.S. blasts Iran in Baha'i case
* Bomb attack at house of Iran's ex-intelligence chief: paper
* Reform paper back on newsstands

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Friday
February 18, 2000

* Khatami's reformist brother leads Tehran race

TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Khatami, who heads the reformist list in Tehran, is leading the race in Tehran, and will be elected to parliament "in the first round" according to an estimate given by the interior ministry Friday evening >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran awaits poll results as reformists see victory

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians awaited the results of crucial parliamentary elections amid claims by reformists close to President Mohammad Khatami that they were headed for victory over conservative rivals. Officials of the Islamic Iran Participation Front said their own rough exit polls in Tehran after Friday's elections had found strong support for reformers from a big turnout >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformists favored in Iranian vote

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's parliament election today was expected to lift reformists over conservatives who want Iran to stick to the ideals of the two-decade-old Islamic revolution. A strong reformist showing would strengthen President Mohammad Khatami in his campaign for individual freedoms and rule of law >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami congratulates people on large election turnout

TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Reformist Iranian President Mohammad Khatami congratulated the Iranian people Friday for turning out in huge numbers to vote in parliamentary elections, the official IRNA news agency reported. Initial official figures put the turnout at a record 75 percent >>> FULL TEXT

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* Albright "interested" in large voter turnout in election

ZAGREB, Feb 18 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the large voter turnout in Iran's parliamentary elections Friday "interested" her, but she would not comment on claims by reformers that they were heading for a sweeping victory >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
February 17, 2000

* Iran goes to the polls for Khatami's "day of destiny"

TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Millions of Iranians will take to the ballot box to elect a new parliament Friday in what President Mohammad Khatami is calling a "day of destiny." Facing a crucial juncture in his presidency, Khatami has made no secret of his desire to overturn the conservative majority in the legislature which has hampered his ambitious programme of liberalising reforms >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami urges big Iran vote turnout

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president has urged his supporters to turn out in large numbers for Friday elections in a drive to end the domination of parliament by hardliners who have hampered his campaign for social and political reform. Opponents to President Mohammad Khatami's liberal reforms called on voters to cast ballots for conservative candidates to uphold the virtues of Islam, which now dictate nearly every aspect of Iranian life >>> FULL TEXT

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* Even in conservative bastion, some residents to vote pro-reform

TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Iranians go to the ballot box Friday to elect a new parliament in what is being touted as a pivotal battle between reformers and their opponents, yet many here don't see much difference politically. "To a great extent it's like choosing between two kinds of cola," says political analyst Khosro Abedi. "There's not a big difference between many of the candidates >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformers confident before Friday poll

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's reformers were confident on Thursday of victory in parliamentary elections as campaigning was suspended for a mandatory 24-hour ``quiet period'' before voting begins. Friday's race for 290 seats in the expanded parliament is seen as a referendum on President Mohammad Khatami's reforms aimed at creating a civil society within Iran's Islamic system >>> FULL TEXT

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* Leading reformist wants to see women take up ministerial posts

TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Tehran's leading reformist candidate in this week's parliamentary elections, Mohammad-Reza Khatami, said on Thursday he was in favour of women taking up ministerial positions in the next government. "There is already a woman deputy minister in the (Islamic) republic", Massuneh Ebtekar in the environment ministry, President Mohammad Khatami's brother said in a press conference shortly before the official end of campaigning >>> FULL TEXT

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* Karbaschi puts new paper on streets

TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - A new daily established by the capital's former mayor, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, hit the streets of Iran Thursday, on the eve of crucial parliamentary elections. "Who will the people vote for tomorrow?" read the banner headline of Ham-Mihan (Compatriot), leaning clearly towards support of the moderate centrists of the Executives of Construction party, which Karbaschi heads >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
February 16, 2000

* President calls on Iranians to vote to help him

TEHRAN, Feb 16 (AFP) - Pro-reform President Mohammad Khatami called on all Iranians to vote in parliamentary elections Friday to help him and his government carry out their goals. In a broadcast message Wednesday, Khatami urged "men, women and above all, young people," to vote, saying Friday is a "day of destiny." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Final campaign day in Iran

Feb 16, (BBC) -- Campaigning has entered its last day in Iran ahead of Friday's crucial legislative elections. Thousands of young people gathered on Tuesday in central Tehran for a rally by the centrist Executives of Construction party that was part pop concert, part political meeting >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran Holy City Doubles as Hotbed of Reform Politics

QUM, Iran, Feb. 15 (NY Times) -- In this most devout of Iranian cities, a battle to emancipate the nation's rigidly controlled political life is being waged by a stern black-turbaned cleric with impeccable Islamic credentials. Operating from a dingy converted photography studio in the center of town, Ayatollah Sayed Mohsen Musavi Tabrizi heads a list of reform candidates for Parliament. Many of his competitors are his fellow Qum clerics, who are campaigning for the Feb. 18 elections on a platform of calling for purging the country of "deviant thoughts" and Western influence >>> FULL TEXT

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* Albright says Iranian reformers gaining popularity

WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Wednesday she believed moderate Iranian reformers were enjoying an upsurge in popularity ahead of the Islamic republic's parliamentary elections this week >>> FULL TEXT

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* Jewish parliamentary candidate expresses hopes for 13 Iranian Jews

TEHRAN, Feb 16 (AFP) - Hilda Rabi-Zadeh, a Jewish candidate in Iran's upcoming legislative elections and a teacher from Shiraz, told AFP Wednesday she hoped to see the early release of 13 Jews, shortly to go on trial in the southern city for spying. "We have complete confidence in the Iranian courts, because we are sure that justice is the same for all," she said on a short visit to Tehran. "The courts are not interested in knowing from which minority the accused come. We are full of hope," she said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reporters Without Borders calls for Iran to stop jamming broadcasts

NICOSIA, Feb 16 (AFP) - The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders protested Wednesday against Iran's jamming of Western radio stations' Persian-language programs ahead of Iranian legislative elections >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
February 15, 2000

* Hashemi "Most Reasonable" on Iran-US Relations

TEHRAN, February 15 (Iran Focus) - Faezeh Hashemi spells out specific steps that the United States should take in order for Iran to agree to official dialogue. Asked to comment on some Western analysts belief that should her father, former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, become the next Majlis speaker, prospects for Iran-US relations would improve Hashemi said: "No matter where Mr Hashemi is, you can be sure that he would do what is most reasonable." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Opposition group calls for massive turnout in elections

TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - The liberal opposition Iran Freedom Movement, whose candidates have been barred once again from standing in Friday's general elections, called Tuesday for a massive turnout in the polls. "While continuing to protest against the wholesale rejection of members and supporters of liberal forces, we call on the population to go to the polls en masse and vote in favour of political openness," the banned but tolerated IFM said in a statement >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reform in Iran now unstoppable says Khatami's brother

TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - The brother of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, running his first-ever campaign for this week's key parliament elections, vowed Tuesday that his brother's reforms were unstoppable. "Reform is indispensable and irreversible," said Mohammad-Reza Khatami, who has emerged as the standard-bearer of the pro-reform movement behind his brother. "Nobody can stop it." >>> FULL TEXT

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* One killed in new brawl at an election meeting in Bandar Abbas

TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - An Iranian was stabbed to death at an election rally staged by a reformist party in the port city of Bandar Abbas, press reports said Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* BBC radio programmes 'jammed' in Iran

LONDON, Feb 15 (AFP) - The BBC World Service is accusing the Iranian authorities of jamming some of its Persian language programmes in Iran ahead of Friday's legislative elections. Farsi radio Director Bakir Moin, pointed the finger at "certain conservative forces" for interfering with the BBC's programmes since the beginning of February and making them inaudible or running a different radio station on the BBC's wavelength >>> FULL TEXT

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* EU voices dismay at attacks in Iran

LISBON, Feb 15 (AFP) - The leadership of the European Union, which is currently held by Portugal, expressed dismay Tuesday over a recent mortar attack Iran that Tehran charges was carried out by Iraqi-backed rebels. "The EU pofoundly regrets the recent mortar attack in Tehran, as well as the deaths and injuries caused by this act of violence," read a statement issued by the Portuguese presidency >>> FULL TEXT

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* Bailed Iranian Jew on spy charges swears it was a misunderstanding

SHIRAZ, Iran, Feb 13 (AFP) - Visibly upset by his ordeal before the Iranian courts, Omid Teflin, one of 13 Iranian Jews facing a possible death sentence on charges of spying for Israel and the United States, swears it was just a misunderstanding >>> FULL TEXT

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* Ex-hostage files lawsuit against Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge is gathering evidence in a $100 million lawsuit filed by former hostage Terry Anderson against the Iranian government. Anderson's case is being heard as an effort builds in Congress to make it easier for victims of state-sponsored terrorism to collect such judgments >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
February 14, 2000

* Clinton says US seeking partnership with Iran

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (AFP) - US President Bill Clinton said Monday the United States was seeking a "constructive partnership" with Iran and that he was following with interest the election campaign there. He said Washington was watching with interest as Iranians prepare to vote in parliamentary elections on Friday. He said he hoped reformers would not be hurt by their desire to open dialogue with Washington. "I think it's important that the genuine reformers there not be in effect weakened because of their willingness to at least talk to us," he said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran candidate seeks U.S. talks

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - At the height of an election campaign pitting moderates against anti-U.S. hard-liners, a leading reformist candidate has called for talks between Iran and the United States after more than two decades of estrangement. ``The two countries should sit and make decisions on the basis of their national interests and this will happen,'' candidate Ahmad Bourqani was quoted as saying by the daily Iran Vij on Sunday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Thousands of pro-reform students boo mention of Rafsanjani

TEHRAN, Feb 13 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranian reformers Sunday chanted slogans against former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a longtime moderate ally who has hitched his wagon to the star of their conservative opponents in parliamentary elections this week. "We hate Hashemi," and "The students have woken up," and chanted around 6,000 pro-reform students gathered in the capital's Shirudi stadium for a rally organized by the leftist Islamic Iran Participation Front >>> FULL TEXT

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* Key reformers risk radicals' anger by backing Rafsanjani

TEHRAN, Feb 14 (AFP) - Key reformist allies of President Mohammad Khatami risked the wrath of his more radical supporters Monday to give their backing to the parliamentary election campaign of his moderate predecessor Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Liberal Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani and former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi both turned out to back Rafsanjani at a Tehran press conference, even though the former president's decision to stand with conservative support has sparked the fury of many radical reformers >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran nixes decision on candidates

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Interior Ministry has rejected a hard-line council's decision to disqualify more candidates ahead of this week's legislative elections, calling the decision illegal, a newspaper reported Monday. ``The names of nominees who have been illegally barred from contesting the elections will be included in the lists of candidates for whom voters can vote,'' Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari was quoted as saying by the daily Hamshahri >>> FULL TEXT

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* Minority candidate wins first-ever backing of mainstream party

TEHRAN, Feb 14 (AFP) - For the first time since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, a candidate for one of the five parliament seats set aside for minority groups has won the backing of a mainstream party. The leading pro-reform party behind President Mohammad Khatami, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), has selected an Armenian candidate for its official list of hopefuls in Friday's vote, Armenian sources said >>> FULL TEXT

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* U.S. blasts Iran in Baha'i case

WASHINGTON ­­ The Clinton administration criticized Iran on Friday for sentencing to death three Baha'i men who the White House said were condemned because of their religious faith >>> FULL TEXT

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* Bomb attack at house of Iran's ex-intelligence chief: paper

TEHRAN, Feb 14 (AFP) - A bomb attack rocked the home of former Iranian intelligence chief Ali Fallahian, who is a conservative candidate in this week's parliamentary elections, overnight Sunday, a newspaper said here Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reform paper back on newsstands

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A newspaper returned to newsstands Saturday after a self-imposed weeklong suspension meant to calm anger generated by its political cartoons satirizing a cleric. Azad newspaper published cartoons last month that depicted hard-line cleric Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi as a crocodile and a fat thug, sparking three days of protests. The reformist newspaper apologized, saying the cartoons were not intended to be offensive >>> FULL TEXT

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