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* Uncertainty persists over Tehran parliamentary election
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* Reformists quash parliamentary debate
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* 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
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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
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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.">>>
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Thursday
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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
Audio HERE
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 >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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