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* Hajjarian improving
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* Gunmen in Hajjarian shooting identified
* Hajjarian's paper blasts murderous "shadow government"
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Friday
March 24, 2000

* Beirut hostage awarded millions

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former hostage Terry Anderson was awarded $341 million from Iran on Friday by a federal judge who said his treatment during his nearly seven years of captivity in Beirut was ``savage and cruel by any civilized standards.'' U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered Iran to pay $24.5 million to Anderson, $10 million to his wife, Madeleine Bassil, and $6.7 million to their daughter, Sulome. The judge also ordered the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security to pay the three $300 million in punitive damages.>>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
March 23, 2000

* Hajjarian improving

March 23, (AP) -- CAIRO, Egypt ­­ An Iranian reformist shot at point-blank range in Tehran nearly two weeks ago is breathing on his own, recognizes friends and relatives and communicates through nods and eye movements, his doctors were reported as saying Thursday. Saeed Hajjarian, a Tehran city councilor, publisher and confidant of President Mohammad Khatami, was shot in the face March 12 by a gunman on a motorcycle. University chemistry student Saeed Asgar has been arrested and accused of the shooting. Further details about the suspect or motive have not been released. >>> FULL TEXT

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* News during Noruz

Tehran (Iran daily) - Iranian newspapers traditionally close down for the Noruz holidays. Not this year. Not the reformist papers at least >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Wednesday
March 22, 2000

* Student gunman shot Hajjarian: IRNA

TEHRAN, March 21 (AFP) - The gunman who shot leading Iranian reformer Said Hajarian is a student at a Tehran university led by a top conservative, the official IRNA news agency said Tuesday. Citing the head of the investigation, it named Said Asghar as the gunman responsible for the March 12 shooting of Hajarian, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami and a leading force behind Iran's pro-reform movement >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformist press hits at news black-out on Hajjarian affair

TEHRAN, March 22 (AFP) - The Iranian government has imposed a black-out on news on the assassination attempt against reformist politician Said Hajarian, two reformist dailies, including Hajarian's own, said Wednesday. "Official sources have banned the national media from publishing unofficial news. For this reason today newpapers were unable to publish solid, but unofficial news," Sobh-e Emruz, Hajarian's paper, said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Belgium & Ali Akbar Rafsanjani

Amnesty International new release: As proceedings before an investigating judge in Belgium are not public, Amnesty International does not know the details of the investigation opened against Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, former Speaker of Parliament and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and therefore cannot comment on it >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
March 21, 2000

* Gunmen in Hajjarian shooting identified

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Intelligence Ministry on Tuesday identified a university student as the gunman in the attack on a leading Iranian reformist. Iranian television quoted the official in charge of the investigation as saying chemistry student Saeed Asgar shot Saeed Hajjarian, a city councilman and confidant of President Mohammad Khatami, on March 12 >>> FULL TEXT

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* Hajjarian's paper blasts murderous "shadow government"

TEHRAN, March 21 (AFP) - Most Iranians believe there is a murderous "shadow government" that holds the true power in the nation, said a pro-reform newspaper Tuesday whose chief is fighting for his life after an assassination attempt. The claim in the Sobh-e-Emruz daily comes as its director Said Hajarian, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami and a leader in the reform movement, is still in hospital after being gunned down in broad daylight last week >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
March 20, 2000

* Six men arrested in Iran shooting

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Six men have been arrested in the shooting of reformist Saeed Hajjarian, Iran's security agency announced Monday. The agency offered no information on the suspects' motives. One of the suspects has confessed to shooting Hajjarian in the face on March 12, according to the Supreme National Security Council, the nation's top security body >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami orders speedier inquiry into shooting of Hajjarian

TEHRAN, March 20 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has ordered police to speed up their investigation into the near-fatal shooting of a close ally and leading reformist, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday. It said Khatami issued a directive for a faster inquiry into the March 12 shooting of Said Hajarian by two gunmen who sped off on a high-powered motorbike of a type restricted here to government agencies >>> 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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