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* Iran sends expelled Egyptian Islamists back to Germany
* Newspaper calls for legalization of satellite TV dishes
* Belgian judge orders police probe of charges against Rafsanjani
* Jews' trial expected to last one day: judge
* Police chief in Jews spy case killed in helicopter crash
* Three opposition figures jailed - human rights group
* Student on death row claims he was tortured
* Guardian Council says "irregularities and errors"
* Khamenei issues warning
* Jews' trial to start April 13: radio
* Iran students narrate beatings
* Police go on trial over unrest violence
* Turkey, Iran in war of words
* U.S. General: Iran Is long-range threat

* Iran asks West's help with nuclear safety
* 500 workers demonstrate outside parliament over new law
* Rafsanjani not out of woods yet
* Some reformers may back Rafsanjani
* Newcomers keen for reform to pack new Iranian parliament
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Friday
March 3, 2000

* Tehran police chief denies intensifying crackdown

TEHRAN, March 2 (Reuters) - Tehran's police chief denied on Thursday that "morals squads" have begun a new crackdown against young people and satellite television dishes, saying police were simply on increased alert for thieves and criminals. "Our increased presence is, in principle, to deal with thieves and common criminals... Concerning social vices, no new measures have been taken, we are just continuing the old trend," Brigadier General Mohsen Ansari told Reuters. >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
March 2, 2000

* Iran sends expelled Egyptian Islamists back to Germany

CAIRO, March 1 (AFP) - Iran refused entry to two Egyptian Islamists expelled there from Germany and has sent them back, the lawyer for Egypt's largest Muslim militant group, the Gamaa Islamiya, said Wednesday. The German authorities "put the two militants and their families aboard a plane bound for Tehran, telling them that Iran was going to grant them political asylum," Montasser al-Zayyat told AFP. >>> FULL TEXT

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* Newspaper calls for legalization of satellite TV dishes

TEHRAN, March 2 (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper called Thursday for the newly elected pro-reform parliament to reverse the ban on satellite television dishes so the country can join the 21st century. "The whole argument boils down to this fact that today satellite reception is not a luxury reserved for a handful of privileged individuals, but a prodigious necessity," the government-sponsored Iran News said in an editorial.>>> FULL TEXT

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* Belgian judge orders police probe of charges against Rafsanjani

BRUSSELS, March 2 (AFP) - A Belgian judge has ordered police to investigate allegations that former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is guilty of crimes against humanity, officials said Thursday.>>> FULL TEXT

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* Jews' trial expected to last one day: judge

TEHRAN, March 2 (AFP) - The Iranian judge handling the case of 13 Jews and eight Muslims accused of spying for Israel and the United States hopes to wrap the whole trial up in one day, a newspaper quoted him as saying Thursday. "I hope the trial will only last a day, but if necessary it will go into several sessions," the judge, named only as Nurai, told the evening daily Ettelaat >>> FULL TEXT

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* Police chief in Jews spy case killed in helicopter crash

TEHRAN, March 2 (AFP) - The police chief of the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, who ordered the arrest of 13 Jews and eight Muslims facing trial on charges of spying for Israel and the United States, was killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday, press reports said Thursday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Three opposition figures jailed - human rights group

PARIS, March 2 (AFP) - Three leaders of one of the main secular opposition groups in Iran, the Iranian nation party, have been sentenced to long prison terms, the League for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) said Thursday.>>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
March 1, 2000

* Student on death row claims he was tortured

TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - An Iranian student facing execution for his part in the violent unrest of last July claimed Wednesday he had been tortured and ill-treated in prison since his arrest. "I was hit with an electric cable, hung up by a rope and violently beaten," Akbar Mohammadi said in a letter to judiciary chief Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi published in a number of reformist newspapers >>> FULL TEXT

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* Guardian Council says "irregularities and errors" alleged in Tehran vote

TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - Iran's powerful Council of Guardians said Wednesday complaints of "irregularities and errors" in the February 18 parliamentary vote in the Tehran constituency had prompted the need for a recount, state radio reported. "We have received many complaints of irregularities and errors which necessitate a new recount for at least one third of the ballot boxes in the capital," the radio quoted the council as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei issues warning

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader warned today against ``political bickering'' as government media announced a partial recount from recent legislative elections in which reformists scored an impressive win. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest authority, said the elections - in which reformists intent on loosening strict religious rule won 170 seats in the 290-member parliament - had distracted the government >>> FULL TEXT

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* Jews' trial to start April 13: radio

TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - Thirteen Iranian Jews and eight Muslims accused of spying for Israel and the United States will go on trial in the southern city of Shiraz on April 13, state radio quoted a judiciary spokesman as saying Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
February 29, 2000

* Iran students narrate beatings

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An ex-police chief accused of ordering a brutal crackdown on university students went on trial Tuesday in a landmark civil rights case in Iran, where reformists are urging respect for laws often flouted by hard-line vigilantes. One student testified he was beaten by police and vigilantes and thrown out a third-floor dormitory window. Another showed the judge his hollow eye socket, saying he had been hit by a tear gas canister >>> FULL TEXT

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* Police go on trial over unrest violence

TEHRAN, Feb 29 (AFP) - Twenty Iranian policemen went on trial before a military court here Tuesday for their actions in quelling a student demonstration last July which sparked off the worst unrest in Iran in some 20 years. The court, presided over by a senior cleric, Hojatoleslam Akbar Tabatabai, formally charged the group of 12 officers and eight men, including former Tehran police chief Farhad Nazari, with assaulting the students in a dormitory complex at Tehran university >>> FULL TEXT

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* Turkey, Iran in war of words after Ecevit blasts "oppressive" clergy

ANKARA, Feb 29 (AFP) - Neighbouring Turkey and Iran were deep into another angry war of words Tuesday as former Turkish prime minister Mesut Yilmaz said Iran's "oppressive" clerical regime was on the verge of collapse. Rekindling the split between Islamic Iran and overwhelmingly Muslim but officially secular Turkey, Yilmaz said the mullahs' regime in Tehran "has started to crack and tomorrow it will collapse as well >>> FULL TEXT

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* U.S. General: Iran Is long-range threat

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite impressive political gains by moderates, Iran's hard-liners remain in control and are moving ahead with ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs, the leader of U.S. military forces in the Persian Gulf said Tuesday. Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni said Iran, not Iraq, poses the greatest long-term threat to the United States >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran asks West's help with nuclear safety

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, vowing it has no ambition to develop nuclear weapons, wants Western experts to help ensure its nuclear power plants conform to top international safety standards. Asadollah Sabouri, vice president of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said Tuesday Iran's first nuclear power plant, under construction with Russian help in the Gulf port of Bushehr, had been deprived of top-quality supervision because of Western sanctions on ``dual-use'' technology >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
February 28, 2000

* 500 workers demonstrate outside parliament over new law

TEHRAN, Feb 28 (AFP) - Some 500 Iranian workers rallied outside the parliament Monday to protest at a new law passed at the weekend enabling employers with fewer than five staff to strip them of social security. Reformists meanwhile slammed the legislation as a gesture of spite by the outgoing conservative-dominated parliament following the landslide victory of the reformists in this month's election >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani not out of woods yet in Iran vote as loser files complaint

TEHRAN, Feb 27 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who narrowly won a parliamentary seat after a controversial vote recount, may still not have secured his place in the assembly, the interior ministry said Sunday. Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh told a press conference that Mohammad Ali Rahmani, who lost the 30th and last seat from Tehran to Rafsanjani, has asked for a recount because of "irregularities" at 35 polling stations >>> FULL TEXT

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* Some reformers may back Rafsanjani

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In a sign of an emerging rift in the reformist coalition that won Iran's elections, a major faction said it will back a former president for the key post of parliament speaker even though he has been increasingly considered a conservative. The Executives of Construction Party will talk Monday with other factions to lobby in favor of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, said Mohammed Atrianfar, a top policy-maker of the party. The party supported Rafsanjani in the Feb. 18 elections >>> FULL TEXT

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* Newcomers keen for reform to pack new Iranian parliament

TEHRAN, Feb 27 (AFP) - Political novices avid for change in Iranian society will comprise the majority of members in Iran's new parliament, with fewer women and fewer clerics but solidly behind President Mohammad Khatami. "It will be a dream parliament" for Khatami, said political analyst Darysh Abdali following Saturday's declaration of the final results of the first round of voting on February 18 which decided 226 of the 290 seats in the new parliament >>> FULL TEXT

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* European ministers to visit Iran

TEHRAN, Iran ­­ The German and Italian foreign ministers are to visit Iran next month, as the European Union tries to reach out to the reformists who recently swept the country's legislative elections >>> FULL TEXT

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* Newcomers keen for reform to pack new Iranian parliament

TEHRAN, Feb 27 (AFP) - Political novices avid for change in Iranian society will comprise the majority of members in Iran's new parliament, with fewer women and fewer clerics but solidly behind President Mohammad Khatami. "It will be a dream parliament" for Khatami, said political analyst Darysh Abdali following Saturday's declaration of the final results of the first round of voting on February 18 which decided 226 of the 290 seats in the new parliament >>> FULL TEXT

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