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* Fraud charges mar final stage of Iran polls
* One dead, 11 hurt in alleged attack by elite troops
* Tehran police face court martial next week
* Khamenei pardons student
* Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave
* Triumphant reformers set out programme
* Hardliner accepts defeat
* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead
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Friday
February 25, 2000

* U.S. State Department human report on Iran

February 25, 2000 (U.S. State Department) -- The [Iranian] government's human rights record remained poor; although efforts within society to make the Government accountable for its human rights policies intensified, serious problems remain. The Government restricts citizens' right to change their government. Systematic abuses include extrajudicial killings and summary executions; disappearances; widespread use of torture and >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
February 24, 2000

* Fraud charges mar final stage of Iran polls

TEHRAN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Iranian officials on Thursday delayed releasing final poll results for Tehran amid allegations of vote-rigging in a tight race for the last of the capital's 30 parliamentary seats. Officials told Reuters they were investigating charges that 100 ballot boxes were stuffed with fraudulent votes. Another 100 boxes had yet to be counted out of a total of 3,111 across the city, they said >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
February 23, 2000

* One dead, 11 hurt in alleged attack by elite troops on air base

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Armed attackers alleged to be from the elite Revolutionary Guards killed one airman and wounded 11 in an assault on Iran's biggest air base at Shiraz, the Iranian daily Sobh-e emruz reported Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Tehran police face court martial next week over bloody unrest

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Tehran's sacked police chief and 19 other officers face public court martial next week over the violent suppression of a student demonstration last July, Tehran University said Wednesday. In an official statement quoted by the official news agency IRNA the university said the first hearing against Farhad Nazari and his colleagues in open session would be held Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei pardons students jailed for "blasphemous" play

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned two students jailed for publishing an allegedly blasphemous play in a university magazine, press reports said Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Former Iranian interior minister and leading reformist Abdullah Nuri, who is serving a five-year sentence for "anti-Islamic propaganda", returned to prison Wednesday after three days leave. Nuri, an influential reformist figure, was freed on Sunday from north Tehran's notorious Evin prison for a three-day home leave >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
February 22, 2000

* Triumphant reformers set out programme for more open Iran

TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Hot on the heels of their landslide victory in parliamentary elections, Iran's reformers Tuesday set out their programme for a more open society, vowing to open up to the foreign media and even the long-hated United States. Emboldened by their capture of parliament, long a bastion of their conservative opponents, the reformers also pledged to end a five-year-old ban on satellite dishes aimed at shutting out the foreign media >>> FULL TEXT

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* Hardliner accepts defeat

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top hard-line ideologue has accepted defeat in Iran's parliamentary elections, saying in a report today that his camp will have to reconsider its policies. An influential reformer, meanwhile, has said talks with the United States would not be a ``sin.'' Talks with the United States, a more liberal press and increased personal freedoms are expected to be among the issues discussed in the next Parliament, or Majlis, which will be seated in June >>> FULL TEXT

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* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead, two wounded

TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Post-election unrest has left three more dead, including one child, and two injured, across Iran, the evening daily newspaper Kayhan said Tuesday. Two people were killed and two others injured in the first incident when a coach hired by supporters of one candidate passed through a village near the southern city of Lordeghan where the locals supported a rival candidate, the paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
February 21, 2000

* Tehran joyous but calm as reformers romp to victory

TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - By previous standards of celebration, Tehran residents have been relatively subdued as Iranian reformers romped to victory at the polls, but no less joyous. When President Mohammad Khatami was elected in 1997, "it was so unexpected, we danced. When Iran beat the United States (in the 1998 World Cup), there was an explosion of fierce national pride. We were a reborn country," said 35-year-old draughtsman Iradj Tabei >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran upholds death sentence on student leader in riots

TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - Iran's courts have upheld the death sentence on a student leader found guilty of instigating deadly riots in Tehran last year, a newspaper reported Monday. The courts upheld the sentence against Akbar Mohammadi, one of three students sentenced to die for their role in July's disturbances, the Asr-e-Azadegan paper said.

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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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