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January 1999 news index
February 8
- AFP: "Zan"
newspaper reappears after two week ban
February 2
- Reuters: Court
bans liberal Adineh magazine
- IRNA: Adineh
magazine ordered closed
- Reuters: Former
Iran official says press freedom threatened
- Hamshahri: Press
reformer defends his policies
February 1
- IRNA: Daily
comments on bourqani's resignation
January 31
- BBC: Iranian
press reformer resigns
January 30
- IRNA: Guidance
ministry deputy resigns
January 28
- IHRWG: Letter
to UN Human Rights Commissioner
January 27
- AFP: Iran
announces arrest of more of its intelligence agents
- IRNA: President
receives irib supervisory council members
- IRNA: Answer
to the pen is by the pen alone, says daily
January 26
- DPA: Culture
ministry condemns "Khordad" bombing
- IRNA: Deputy
minister condemns bombing of daily
- IRNA: Islamic
human rights commission condemns attack
- BBC: Explosion
at "Khordad" newspaper office
- Reuters: "Khordad"
bombed
- IRNA: "Khordad"
will be published
- IRNA: "Khordad"
attacked with sound bomb
- IRNA: Burning
copies of "Kayhan" condemned
January 25
- Iran: Editorial:
Foruhar's colleagues "missing"
January 24
- IRNA: Khatami: Honesty in killings probe, Part (1)
(2) (3)
- IRNA: Grand
ayatollah calls for immediate punishment
January 23
- BBC: Zan
newspaper begins two-week ban
- AFP: Zan daily
ordered closed for two weeks
- AFP: Police
break up rally in support of murdered writers
- IRNA: Commemoration
ceremony held for slain writers
- IRNA: Court
hearing to be held for three publications
January 22
- Reuters: Jannati
warns of Internet threat
January 21
- AFP: Foruhar
killers used film ploy to enter home
- Iran: Murderers
confess to recent crimes
- IRNA: Tabriz
police rejects rumors on murder
January 20
- IRNA: TV
chief regrets airing anti-Khatami program
- IRNA: Intelliegence
minister may be replaced: paper
- AFP: Murderers
of Iranian dissidents to face public trial
- BBC: Trial
promised over Iran murders
- IRNA: Accused murderers will face public trial, Part (1) (2)
(3)
- Rah-e Kargar: "Fatwa"
authorizes murders
- Rah-e Kargar: Protest
march in Germany
- Iran: Habibollah
Payman says he;s getting death threats
- Iran: Majlis
condemns criticism against TV chief
- Iran: Commentary
on Hosseinian's accusations
- Iran: Hosseinian:
Khatami's faction behind killings
January 19
- AP: TV chief
banned from vabinet meetings
- Reuters: Khatami
seen winning row with state TV
- BBC: Report
criticizes Iranian TV
- IRNA: TV
chief "not at fault"
January 18
- Reuters: Khamenei
urges factions to end row over murders
- IRNA: Khamenei appeals for unity, part (1)
(2) (3)
- Rah-e Kargar: We
give warning!
- BBC: Report
says recent killings not politically orchestrated
January 17
- AFP: Three
more murders this week
- IRNA: TV program
aired with ulterior motive, says Mohajerani
- IRNA: Killings
scenario denied by president's bureau
- IRNA: Murders
should not be politicized: lawmakers
- IRNA: Rule
of law should be institutionalized, says paper
January 16
- Iran daily: Intelligence
minister: probe should not become political
- Iran daily: Commentary
against TV and Kayhan newspaper chiefs
- Iran daily: Sarqalam:
satire on controversial comments on TV
- Ettela'at: Attackers
stop Isfahan Friday Prayers
- Reuters: Iran
hardliners stop pro-Khatami sermon
- IRNA: MPs call
for tv programs to be aired on murders
- IRNA: Daily
calls for solidarity
- Rah-e Kargar: Commentary
on the Intelligence Ministry statement
January 15
- AFP: Rafsanjani
appeals for factional truce
- IRNA: Rafsanjani
calls on factions to end clashes
- IRNA: Isfahan's
friday prayers leader fails to deliver sermon
- AP: Hard-line
group threatens to kill dissident
January 14
- IRNA: Jannati
strongly denies he tried to undermine Khatami
- IRNA: Fifty
one majlis deputies thank Khatami
January 13
- BBC: MPs
demand apology from state television
- Chicago Tribune: Iran's
reformers fight back (Editorial)
- IRNA: Majlis
thanks leader, president, information minister
- IRNA: Majlis
faction demands apology from TV chief
- IRNA: "Entekhabat"
daily to hit newsstands
January 12
- AFP: 10
arrested for murders of dissidents in Iran
- Reuters: Iran
murder probe slams hardliners over ``rumours''
- AP: Iran
Intelligence Chief Faulted
- IRNA: Arrests in connection with murders, part (1)
(2)
- IRNA: Students call for open trial, part (1)
(2)
- IRNA: Dailies underline rule of law, part (1)
(2)
- IRNA: "Drastic"
changes under way in information ministry
- IRNA: Attributing
killings to internal forces, "great negligence"
- BBC: Tehran
students demonstrate over recent murders
- The Economist: Iran
comes clean
- Christian Science: Iran's
inner wrestling (Editorial)
January 11
- AP: Iran
Intelligence Chief Criticized
- Reuters: Montazeri
wants secret police purged
- AP: Party
calls for dismissal of intelligence minister
- BBC: Iranian
group calls for minister's resignation
- Rah-e Kargar: Commentary
on the Intelligence Ministry statement
January 10
- Reuters: Iran
factions debate minister's fate after murders
- AFP: Iran
divided on crisis over secret services
- New York Times: Frightening
Reassurances in Iran
- AFP: Intelligence
chief to stay on - paper
- BBC: Iranian
official says country facing cultural onslaught
January 9
- Reuters: Iran
author seeks stay in Norway for security
- Reuters: Iran
leader says foreigners behind killings
- BBC: Khamenei:
Deaths inquiry must go on
- AP: Iran
Blames Foreigners for Killings
- IRNA: Khamenei: Killigns "foreign scenario", (2) (3)
(4)
- IRNA: Ardebili
praises uncovering of killings
- Christian Science: Arrests
of intelligence officers may be watershed
- RFE/RL: Iran's
Intelligence Ministry Still Largely Above The Law
January 7
- RFE/RL: Iran:
Arrests In Dissident Killings Leave Questions
- AFP: Iranian
writer seeks asylum in Norway
- Iran daily: A
look at recent serial murders
- AFP: Foruhar's
children demand international probe
- AFP: Government
under pressure to deepen reform after murders
- AP: Iran
moderates demand secret police reform
- XINHUA: Intelligence
Minister to Be Sacked
- Jomhuri Eslami: Fetneh
(Conspiracy) (editorial)
- Financial Times: Khatami
on top as ministry admits murder link
- Telegraph: Khatami
strikes blow for law as agents arrested
- New York Times: Some
Call for Overhaul of Intelligence Ministry
January 6
- AP: Iran
Slaying Admission Draws Praise
- BBC: U.S.
praises Iran murder arrests
- Reuters: U.S.
welcomes Iran's arrests of suspected killers
- AFP: Secret
services badly shaken by role in murder of dissidents
- AFP: President
hails "honest" probe into murders
- DPA: Iran to
refuse entry to human rights envoy
- Reuters: Reformers
demand overhaul of Iran security forces
- IRNA: Khatami
praises intelligence staff
- IRNA: Majlis
deputies call for scrutiny probe
- IRNA: Moderate
party: expose perpetrators of recent crimes
- IRNA: Speaker hails information ministry Part (1)
(2)
- AP: Iran
Officials Arrested in Slayings
- New York Times: Iranians
Assert Rogue Officers Slew Dissidents
- LA Times: Iran
Arrests Rogue Security Agents Crime
- London Times : 'Rogue'
agents killed dissidents, Iran says
- IPS: Ayatollah
Khameneh'i issued killing orders
- IPS: Khameneh'i,
Rafsanjani, Fallahian possible "master killers"
- Reuters: Rushdie
Mexico event scuttled by Iran media threat
- Reuters: UK's
Rushdie to receive top French literary award
January 5
- BBC: Iran
agents 'involved in liberal murders'
- IRNA: Intelligence
ministry agents arrested
- IRNA: Intelligence
ministry agents arrested (in Persian)
- AFP: Iranian
politician seeks asylum in Germany
- Reuters: Hardline
Iranian weekly to appeal against ban
- Reuters: Rushdie
says still in danger, no normal life yet
Januray 4
- Reuters: Two
publications banned
- Hamshahri: Writers
have "the right to organize" - Mohajerani
January 3
- Banisadr: Former
president details "terror network"
- IRNA: Investigation
underway into mysterious killings
January 1, 1999
- Reuters: Iran
rejects outside probe into dissident killings
- AFP: Several
arrested for murders of dissidents: official
* Nov/December
1998 news index
