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* Newly elected women MPs challenge chador
* Dissident case judge repalced
* Accused Jews to have lawyers designated by court
* Iranians allowed to celebrate Chaarshanbeh Soori
* 2,000 workers in fresh protest
* Iranian Jews pick lawyers ahead of spy trial
* Iran judge vows no cover-up of police failings in July
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* Belgium "regrets" the impact of Rafsanjani legal
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* Belgian gov. denies involvement in Rafsanjani case
* Real culprits not on trial, Iran police court-martial told
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Friday
March 10, 2000
* Mahmudali who?
March 9, 2000
A court in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz has
sentenced a prominent ethnic Azeri dissident to six months in prison after
finding him guilty of smuggling. Mahmudali Chereghani was arrested last
month after running into trouble with the authorities over his calls for
more cultural rights for Iran's large ethnic Azeri minority. Although he's
not that well-known in his own country, Mr Chereghani has a lot of supporters
across the border in the Republic of Azerbaijan where he's become something
of a cause celebre. Jenny Norton of the BBC Central Asia and Caucasus Service
reports. >>>
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* Mesbah denounces reformist policies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line cleric lashed out at Iran's reformists
today, warning that the government's liberal cultural policies were more
dangerous to the nation than a military coup. Ayatollah Mohammad Mesbah
Yazdi, whose comments last month prompted a strong media response, said
criticism of religious teachings and prominent people in the name of press
freedom threatened Iran's Islamic system. >>>
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Thursday
March 9, 2000
* Four newly elected women MPs challenge chador as required garb
TEHRAN, March 9 (AFP) - Four Iranian women newly elected to parliament
are questioning the need to wear the chador, the black head-to-toe wrap
which has been standard garb for female MPs since the 1979 revolution,
a Tehran daily reported Thursday. The four women, who won election on the
reform ticket in last month's polls, say a scarf concealing their hair
and a long coat is sufficent to meet the requirements of Iran's Islamic
dress code, the Ham-Miham newspaper said. >>>
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* Dissident case judge repalced
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The government has replaced the judge and investigators
looking into the 1998 murders of five political dissidents, an Iranian
newspaper reported Thursday. No reason was given for the decision, the
Hamshahri daily said, quoting an official Islamic Republic News Agency
report that said the investigation has taken more than a year because of
its complexity and ``sabotage.'' >>>
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* Accused Jews to have lawyers designated by court
TEHRAN, March 9 (AFP) - Thirteen Iranian Jews accused of spying for
Israel are to have their lawyers appointed for them by the revolutionary
tribunal after failing to notify the court of their own choice by the legal
deadline, officials said Thursday. "The deadline has passed for the
accused to designate their lawyers," judiciary spokesman Hossein Mir
Mohammad-Sadeqi told AFP >>>
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Wednesday
March 8, 2000
* Iranians allowed to celebrate age-old fire festival for first time
TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - Iranians are being allowed to celebrate an age-old
fire festival, condemned by the clergy as irreligious, for the first time
since the Islamic revolution of 1979, the government daily Ettelaat reported
Wednesday >>>
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* 2,000 Iranian workers in fresh protest over controversial labour
law
TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - Some 2,000 disgruntled Iranian workers rallied
outside parliament Wednesday in renewed protests against recent legislation
enabling employers with fewer than five staff to strip them of social security.
The demonstrators, gathered under the flag of workers' groups close to
reformist President Mohammad Khatami, accused parliament of having "humiliated
the workforce with its anti-worker law.">>>
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* Iranian Jews pick lawyers ahead of spy trial
TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - At least ten out of 13 Iranian Jews facing trial
on charges of spying for Israel and the United States have selected their
lawyers, the daily Aftab e-Emruz said Wednesday >>>
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Tuesday
March 7, 2000
* Iran judge vows no cover-up of police failings in July unrest
TEHRAN, March 7 (AFP) - A Tehran military court judge vowed Tuesday
there would be no cover-up of any wrong-doing by police during the storming
of a student dorm last July which sparked the worst unrest here since the
aftermath of the 1979 revolution >>>
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* Belgium "regrets" the impact of Rafsanjani legal case
BRUSSELS, March 7 (AFP) - Belgium "regrets the impact" a Belgian
legal case involving Iranian President Rafsanjani has had on bilateral
relations, a government spokesman said Tuesday. But it will not interfere
in a legal enquiry opening here Tuesday. "Despite what has been written
by IRNA (the official Iranian press agency), we do not regret the opening
of the case, but rather the impact it has had on bilateral relations,"
said spokesman, Michel Malherbe."We cannot regret the opening of a
legal case, because it is a judicial act." >>>
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Monday
March 6, 2000
* Belgian government denies all involvement in Rafsanjani case
BRUSSELS, March 6 (AFP) - A court action against former Iranian president
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was not the work of the Belgian government,
which is intent on restoring healthy relations with Tehran, Belgian Foreign
Minister Louis Michel declared Monday. "The Belgian justice system
is independent, so the government has absolutely no part to play"
in the criminal investigation, Michel told Belgian radio station RTBF >>> FULL
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* Real culprits not on trial, Iran police court-martial told
TEHRAN, March 4 (AFP) - The real culprits responsible for a police attack
on a student dormitory that sparked off violent unrest in Iran last year
were still at large, defence lawyers claimed on the second day of a court
martial of 20 police officers here Saturday. "The real proponents
of this tragedy continue with business as usual and have engaged in an
intimidation campaign against one of the plaintiffs, Gholamreza Mahmoodi",
Mohsen Rahami, lawyer for the students, said >>>
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* Moderate Iranian daily suspends publication
TEHRAN, March 6 (AFP) - The editor of the moderate daily Arya (Aryan),
which the courts forced off the news stands for two weeks last January,
confirmed Monday that the newspaper had suspended publication until further
notice >>>
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