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* Reformists quash parliamentary debate on new secret service
* Rafsanjani no longer seeking MP seat in vote row: paper
* Suspect pleads innocent in Jewish spy trial
* Clerics defend Khatami's reform program
* Kiarostami and censorship in Iran
* Reformers go on the offensive over vote fraud claim
* Three reform newspaper bosses to be hauled into court
* Khamenei against culture minister, official says
* Trial ends in case of assassination attempt on Hajjarian
* Defence for Iran Jews denounces TV confessions as political ploy
* Exiled Iranian activists query trial confessions
* Parliament to consider secret service to watch secret service
* Iran reformer warns of vote chaos
* Pro-reform paper goes to daily publication
* Stakes increase in Iran's Jewish spy trial
* Judge turns down lawyer's call for Jews' trial to go public
* Ousted Tehran police chief in court again over deadly student unrest

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Friday
May 12, 2000

* Albright warns Iran on trial of alleged Jewish spies

WASHINGTON, May 11 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday delivered Washington's strongest warning yet to Iran over the controversial trial of 13 Jews there accused of spying for Israel. "The authorities in Tehran should know that their handling of that trial will have an impact on how their nation is viewed and dealt with around the world," Albright said following a meeting here with her French counterpart Hubert Vedrine >>> FULL TEXT

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* Uncertainty persists over Tehran parliamentary election results

TEHRAN, May 11 (AFP) - Iran's election watchdog body failed Thursday to end the uncertainty hovering over the Tehran election results, nearly three months after parliamentary elections, despite indications earlier this week that final validation was close. Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lari said on television that he "hoped the Tehran results would be announced definitively in the next few days, as parliament will assemble on May 28.">>> FULL TEXT

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May 11, 2000

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Wednesday
May 10, 2000

* Reformists quash parliamentary debate on new secret service

TEHRAN, May 10 (AFP) - Reformists in Iran's outgoing conservative parliament managed to scrap Wednesday a debate on a bill to put the nation's powerful secret service under the watch of another security service. They pushed through a vote to downgrade the measure from one of urgency to put it on the ordinary agenda, leaving the parliament no time to debate it before it has to hand over to its reformist-dominated successor >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani no longer seeking MP seat in vote row: paper

TEHRAN, May 10 (AFP) - Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is no longer interested in a seat in parliament after his poor showing in February's elections, a newspaper said here Wednesday. The pro-reform Iran News, an English-language daily, cited unnamed analysts saying that Rafsanjani was to give up his chase for a seat in Tehran amid an ongoing controversy about the election results >>> FULL TEXT

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* Suspect pleads innocent in Jewish spy trial

SHIRAZ, Iran (Reuters) - A suspect in Iran's Jewish spy trial pleaded innocent Wednesday, becoming the first of the seven defendants heard so far to deny the state's allegations of membership in an Israeli spy ring. Farzad Kashi told the closed-door session of the Revolutionary Court he was not guilty of passing material to Israeli intelligence, his lawyer told reporters after the hearing in the southern city of Shiraz >>> FULL TEXT

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* Clerics defend Khatami's reform program

Qom, May 10, IRNA -- More than 200 clerics in this holy city in a communique here on Wednesday defended reforms in the society, calling the "May 23 epic" which swept reformist president Seyed Mohammad Khatami to a landslide victory a "blessed event" in the country
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Tuesday
May 9, 2000

* Kiarostami and censorship in Iran

National Public Radio, Morning Edition
May 8, 2000

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BOB EDWARDS, host: As the government of Iran was closing several reformist newspapers and arresting their editors last month, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was in the United States accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival. The international press helped give Kiarostami the stature he has today. Critics consider his movies some of the finest of the last 10 years. Kiarostami's movies have not been critical of the Islamic regime in Teheran, but he says he's concerned about the Iranian government's new restrictions of freedom of expression. David D'Arcy reports >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformers go on the offensive over vote fraud claim

TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - Iran's reform movement warned their conservative rivals Monday not to meddle with the will of the people amid charges that their sweeping win in February's parliamentary polls was tainted by fraud. The reform coalition behind President Mohammad Khatami issued a strongly worded statement calling on the conservative Council of Guardians to stop procrastinating and validate their majority in the new parliament >>> FULL TEXT

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* Three reform newspaper bosses to be hauled into court

TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - The heads of three pro-reform Iranian newspapers closed in a recent crackdown on the reformist press have been summoned to appear in court, reports said Tuesday. Former deputy culture minister Issa Saharkhiz, head of the business newspaper Akbar-Eqtesad and former director of the state news agency IRNA, told AFP he was due to testify on Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei against culture minister, official says

TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - Iran's embattled Culture Minister Ataollah Mojerani suffered a new blow Tuesday when a leading conservative said he was the only member of President Mohammad Khatami's reformist government not to have the support of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "The leader supports the person of Mr Khatami and his government, except the culture and Islamic guidance minister," Mohsen Rezaie, secretary of the powerful arbitration body, the Expediency Council, said in an interview with the official news agency IRNA >>> FULL TEXT

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* Trial ends in case of assassination attempt on Hajjarian

TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - The trial of eight people suspected of carrying out an assassination attempt on a leading Iranian reformer ended Tuesday, after just three hearings, the official IRNA news agency reported. It said a verdict would be given in an appropriate period of time on the suspected attackers of Said Hajarian, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, who was gunned down in the streets of Tehran in March >>> FULL TEXT

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* Defence for Iran Jews denounces TV confessions as political ploy

TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - Defence lawyers for 13 Iranian Jews on trial for spying for Israel say confessions of several suspects broadcast on state television are an illegal effort to play the case out in the media. "The broadcast of the 'confessions' by the media, which were made in our absence, is illegal and constitutes a political ploy on the part of the court," says lead lawyer and defence spokesman Ismail Nasseri >>> FULL TEXT

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* Exiled Iranian activists query trial confessions

DUBAI, May 8 (Reuters) - Iranian human rights activists in Europe charged on Monday that spying confessions by Jewish defendants at a closely watched trial in Iran may have been extracted under pressure. "This is a game that has long existed in Iran. It was so before the (1979 Islamic) revolution and it has only become worse since," said Mahmoud Rafi, head of the Berlin-based League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran >>> FULL TEXT

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* Parliament to consider secret service to watch secret service

TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - Iran's outgoing conservative parliament will debate Wednesday a bill to put the nation's powerful secret service under the watch of another security service, a parliamentary source said. The measure would put the intelligence ministry, several of whose agents were blamed for the 1998 killings of leading dissidents and intellectuals, "under the surveillance of a separate security and intelligence body," the source said >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
May 8, 2000

* Iran reformer warns of vote chaos

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A pro-reform candidate warned Monday that annulling parliamentary vote results in Iran's capital - where reformists won an overwhelming majority - could lead to chaos. Reformers fear hard-liners in the Islamic clerical government aim to overturn election victories of pro-reform candidates, particularly after the Guardian Council, which oversees elections and is controlled by the conservatives, claimed large discrepancies in voting in Tehran >>> FULL TEXT

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* Pro-reform paper goes to daily publication

TEHRAN, May 8 (AFP) - A pro-reform Iranian weekly headed by a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami began daily publication Monday, weeks after almost all the pro-Khatami press was closed down by the conservative courts. Bahar (Spring), lead by the head of the presidency's press office Said Pur-azizi, began daily publication with its first issue given over to a bold proclamation of its pro-reform values >>> FULL TEXT

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* Stakes increase in Iran's Jewish spy trial

SHIRAZ, Iran (Reuters) - Two more suspects in Iran's Jewish spy trial acknowledged Monday working for Israel, setting up a possible collision between the Islamic republic and the West. The developments at the fourth hearing in the closely -watched case were certain to exacerbate a growing dispute between Iran and its critics, particularly Israel and its closest Western allies, over the fate of the 13 accused Iranian Jews >>> FULL TEXT

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* Judge turns down lawyer's call for Jews' trial to go public

TEHRAN, May 8 (AFP) - The judge in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews rejected a defence request Monday for the closed-door proceedings to be made open to the public, court spokesman Hossein-Ali Amiri said. Jusge Sadeq Nurani made his decision for reasons of national security, Amiri said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Ousted Tehran police chief in court again over deadly student unrest

TEHRAN, May 8 (AFP) - Ousted Tehran police chief Farhad Nazari in court Monday again defended his role in an attack on student demonstrators last year that set off days of deadly rioting. An angry Nazari took the stand and accused students of showing "staged" films of deaths from the unrest and working to undermine the reputation of the police, the official IRNA news agency said >>> 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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