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* Khatami's brother to lead main leftist
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* Khamenei rejects criticism
* Rafsanjani links reformers with Iran abuses
* Services disagree whether to show killers' "confessions"
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* Karbaschi to launch new paper after receiving pardon
* Tehran ex-mayor freed, returns to politics
* Karbaschi: cleric who gave up his turban for a suit
* Motion to quash conviction of Abdollah Nouri rejected
* Karbaschi says he may not have to go back to jail
* Date set for police court martial over July unrest in
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* Khatami's brother denies reformers split
* Iran asks press to avoid stoking tensions ahead of elections
* Women arrested for violating Islamic dress code
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Friday
January 28, 2000
* Candidates barred
TEHRAN, Iran Some 650 potential candidates have been barred
from competing in next month's legislative elections, a hard-line Iranian
council that screens candidates said Thursday. Ayatollah Reza Ostadi,
spokesman of the Guardians Council, was quoted by Iranian television as
saying that some 600 out of 7,000 hopefuls were disqualified by the Interior
Ministry and electoral supervisory councils, while 50 others were directly
rejected by the Council >>>
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* Khatami and Nuri keep the vote in the family
TEHRAN, Jan 28 (AFP) - The names of Khatami and Nuri, two of the most
prestigious in Iranian politics, will appear on the ballot for next month's
parliamentary elections, with their owners hoping to form a dynamic duo
to help push forward reform -- backing the policies of their elder brothers.
Mohammad-Reza Khatami, 40, and Ali-Reza Nuri, 36, have made their own careers
-- both are doctors -- far from the political arena, where they are still
novices >>>
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Thursday
January 27, 2000
* Khatami's brother to lead main leftist party in polls
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Kahatami, younger brother of Iran's
reformist President Mohammad Khatami, will head the list of the leading
leftist Participation Front in next month's polls, the party said Thursday
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Wednesday
January 26, 1999
* Khamenei rejects criticism
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said
Wednesday that his authority is indisputable, apparently rejecting criticism
from reformists who say he is not above the law. His remarks come less
than a month before crucial Parliamentary elections in which his increasingly
unpopular hard-line supporters are being challenged by moderate reformists
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* Rafsanjani links reformers with Iran abuses
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has linked
Iran's reform camp to widespread hangings and other extreme measures after
the 1979 Islamic revolution, a newspaper reported Wednesday. It was Rafsanjani's
strongest attack on militant reformers behind President Mohammad Khatami,
many of whom are wary of the former president' active return to politics
by standing as a candidate in parliamentary elections on February 18
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* Services disagree whether to show killers' "confessions"
on TV
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - Iranian legal and intelligence services are at
odds over whether the "confessions" of those accused of the killings
of several prominent intellectuals just over a year ago should be shown
on television. "The intelligence ministry opposed the broadcasting
of this film, while the military judicial organisation believes it would
be helpful to show it on television," deputy parliamentary speaker
Hassan Ruhani said Wednesday, quoted by the official IRNA news agency
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* Karbaschi to launch new paper after receiving pardon
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - Tehran's former reformist mayor Gholamhossein
Karbaschi marked his release from prison following a pardon from Iran's
spiritual leader by announcing Wednesday that he will shortly launch a
new newspaper, Ham-Mihan (Compatriot). The announcement comes three weeks
before the February 18 parliamentary elections, in which reformist forces
are hoping to end the conservative stranglehold on the country's affairs
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Tuesday
January 25, 1999
* Tehran ex-mayor freed, returns to politics
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The former mayor of Tehran has been pardoned
of his conviction for graft, freeing one of Iran's most influential reformist
politicians just weeks ahead of key parliamentary polls. State television,
quoting the judiciary, said on Tuesday that Gholamhossein Karbaschi's request
for pardon had been granted by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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* Karbaschi: cleric who gave up his turban for a suit
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - Jailed former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
who was granted an amnesty Tuesday, is a cleric turned Western-style administrator
whose vast public works schemes transformed the face of the capital but
made him an easy target for charges of corruption. Schooled in Islamic
theology in the holy city of Qom, Karbaschi reached the rank of hojatoleslam,
one below ayatollah >>>
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Monday
January 24, 1999
* Motion to quash conviction of Abdollah Nouri rejected
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - Iran's state prosecutor Ayatollah Morteza Moqtadai
has rejected a request to quash the conviction of leading reformer Abdollah
Nuri for Islamic propaganda, state radio said Saturday >>>
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* Karbaschi says he may not have to go back to jail
TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - The reformist former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, who was imprisoned for corruption two years ago, said Monday
that he may not be required to return to jail when a period of prison leave
ends later this week >>>
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* Date finally set for police court martial over July unrest in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - Tehran's military court has finally set a date
for the trial of the capital's sacked police chief Farhad Nazari and 19
other officers over the violent suppression of a student demonstration
last July, newspapers said Monday >>>
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* Khatami's brother denies reformers split ahead of February polls
TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - The younger brother of Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami Sunday denied that his reformist supporters were split ahead of
key parliamentary elections next month despite mounting divisions over
the candidacy of a longtime moderate ally >>>
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* Iran asks press to avoid stoking tensions ahead of elections
TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Iran's deputy culture minister on Sunday asked
Tehran newspapers to avoid stoking tensions on the eve of anniversary of
the Islamic revolution and ahead of key parliamentary elections next month
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* Women arrested for violating Islamic dress code
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - Iranian police arrested 10 young women for violating
the country's strict Islamic dress code Saturday in a rare sweep through
a well-to-do northern district of the capital >>>
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