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* Doctors more upbeat on condition of
shot Hajjarian
* Human rights progress in Iran
* Rafsanjani accuses US over recent attacks in Iran
* German editors return to Iran for book fair
* Reformers blame hard-liners for violence
* Iranians urged to pray for reformer
* President Khatami visits Hajarian in hospital
* Reformers rally behind stricken leader
* Student tells police trial of "tunnel of terror"
* Rafsanjani attacks Belgian probe as "counter-revolutionary"
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* Mahmudali who?
* Mesbah denounces reformist policies
* Newly elected women MPs challenge chador
* Dissident case judge repalced
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Thursday
March 16, 2000
* Doctors more upbeat on condition of shot Hajjarian
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Doctors treating shot Iranian reformist politician
Said Hajarian were more upbeat on his condition Wednesday, saying there
was growing hope he would pull through. Dr Mohammad Ghodsi, spokesman for
Hajarian's medical team, told journalists Hajarian's blood circulation
was under full control and the assistance to his breathing from a ventilator
would be reduced over the next few days >>>
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* Author of death threat against Hajjarian arrested: press
TEHRAN, March 16 (AFP) - The alleged author of a death threat against
leading Iranian reformist Said Hajarian before Sunday's attempt on his
life has been arrested, a press report said Thursday, quoting a government
official. The daily Kar-o Karegar, quoting an official of the intelligence
ministry, said the man was named Ahmadi, but gave no further information
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* Iran refuses accused Jews to choose lawyers
March 16 (Fath daily) - Ansar Hezbollah hardliners have issued what
amounts to a death threat against reformists >>>
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* Iran refuses accused Jews to choose lawyers
NEW YORK, March 16 (AFP) - A judge in the Iranian city of Shiraz, who
will preside over the trial of 13 Jews on espionage charges, has refused
to let them choose their own lawyers, according to a Jewish advocacy group
based here. In a statement released Wednesday, the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) said "the judge is
insisting on court appointed attorneys. >>>
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* Iran bows to complaints over Afghan refugee deportations
TEHRAN, March 16 (AFP) - Iran told representatives of refugee organisations
Thursday it would concentrate on voluntary repatriation of Afghans living
in the country, implying that a wave of deportations is over, a source
with one of the organisations told AFP. "Iran considers it a priority
to implement the agreement concluded in February" with the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the source said >>>
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Wednesday
March 15, 2000
* Doctors more upbeat on condition of shot Hajjarian
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Doctors treating shot Iranian reformist politician
Said Hajarian were more upbeat on his condition Wednesday, saying there
was growing hope he would pull through. Iranian neurologist Ghahramani
Ghadjar, who was flown in from New York, said Hajarian's brain was functioning
and there was no risk of blood clots >>>
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* Human rights progress in Iran, but improvement still needed: report
GENEVA, March 15 (AFP) - The human rights situation in Iran has significantly
improved in a number of areas but the law relating to it needs improvement,
a UN report said Wednesday. "Iran is a dynamic society and in the
period under review, significant progress has become evident in a number
of areas, but not in all," the report by special representative Maurice
Danby Copithorne said >>>
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* Rafsanjani accuses US over recent attacks in Iran
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani
on Wednesday accused the United States of being behind the recent wave
of violence in the country, in a bid to destabilise the regime. Rafsanjani
drew a common link between a February mortar attack that damaged his offices
in Tehran, Sunday's assassination bid against leading reformist Said Hajarian
and Monday's mortar attack in the capital. One way or another, they were
all organised by Washington, he said >>>
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* German editors return to Iran for book fair in sign of thawing
relations
FRANKFURT, March 15 (AFP) - For the first time in a decade, German editors
plan to attend a book fair in Tehran in May, in the latest sign of a thawing
in bilateral relations. The editors will attend the Tehran Book Fair from
May 4-14, organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair said in a communique >>> FULL
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Tuesday
March 14, 2000
* Reformers blame hard-liners for violence
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian political factions closed ranks on Tuesday
to condemn the shooting of a prominent reformer, but they split over blame
as reformists accused hard-liners of provoking the attack with inflammatory
speeches. Reformers close to President Mohammad Khatami singled out Ayatollah
Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, a hard-liner known for his strident attacks
on democracy and attempts to justify violence to stop reforms which he
sees as threats to Islamic values. >>>
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* Iranians urged to pray for reformer
TEHRAN, Iran Tehran's city council urged Iranians today to
pray for a reformer gravely wounded in an assassination attempt, an appeal
that in this country usually indicates little hope for recovery and imminent
death. Saeed Hajjarian, who is in his late 40s, has been in a coma with
a bullet lodged in the back of his neck since Sunday, when he was shot
in the face by an unknown assailant >>>
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Monday
March 13, 2000
* President Khatami visits Hajarian in hospital
TEHRAN, March 13 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami rushed straight
from the airport to the bedside of prominent reformist Said Hajarian, critically
injured in a shooting, on his return from a regional tour Monday. Khatami,
accompanied by Health Minister Mohammad Farhadi, spent 10 minutes with
Hajarian and came out looking "extremely sad," journalists at
the hospital said. >>>
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* Reformers rally behind stricken leader
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's broad reformist movement vowed on Monday to
press on with its campaign for change, undeterred by an assassin's bullet
that left one of its leading lights fighting for his life in a Tehran hospital.
In an outpouring of support for Saeed Hajjarian, one of the architects
of the movement and a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, politicians,
clerics and newspaper editors said the shooting represented the cost of
reforming the Islamic system >>>
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* Student tells police trial of "tunnel of terror"
TEHRAN, March 12 (AFP) - An Iranian student told a military court trying
20 policemen Sunday how police and vigilantes turned the corridor of his
dormitory into a "tunnel of terror" in a raid last July. Javad
Mir Sharafi described unprovoked assaults on students dragged out of bed
in the storming of the dorm which sparked the worst unrest in Iran since
the aftermath of the 1979 revolution >>>
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* Rafsanjani attacks Belgian probe as "counter-revolutionary"
plot
TEHRAN, March 13 (AFP) - Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani
denounced a Belgian court probe into his alleged involvement in human rights
abuses as a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Rafsanjani attributed the
investigation to "enemies of the Islamic revolution" in a statement
issue by the official news agency IRNA, his first response to the allegations
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Friday
March 10, 2000
* Mahmudali who?
March 9, 2000
A court in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz has
sentenced a prominent ethnic Azeri dissident to six months in prison after
finding him guilty of smuggling. Mahmudali Chereghani was arrested last
month after running into trouble with the authorities over his calls for
more cultural rights for Iran's large ethnic Azeri minority. Although he's
not that well-known in his own country, Mr Chereghani has a lot of supporters
across the border in the Republic of Azerbaijan where he's become something
of a cause celebre. Jenny Norton of the BBC Central Asia and Caucasus Service
reports. >>>
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* Mesbah denounces reformist policies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line cleric lashed out at Iran's reformists
today, warning that the government's liberal cultural policies were more
dangerous to the nation than a military coup. Ayatollah Mohammad Mesbah
Yazdi, whose comments last month prompted a strong media response, said
criticism of religious teachings and prominent people in the name of press
freedom threatened Iran's Islamic system. >>>
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