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* Tehran election results to be announced
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* US Jews snub Mandela over Iran support
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* Iran jails five for shooting of reformer
* GC to allow Tehran results stand: paper
* Jewish defendant: It wasn't espionage
* Another reformist newspaper closed
* Iran Jews to escape death penalty for "spying":
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* Guardians Council to decide Tehran's fate this week
* Suspects admit passing material to Israel
* Lawyers of accused Jews threaten to sue state TV
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May 19, 2000
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Thursday
May 18, 2000
* Tehran election results to be announced in next two days: Guardian
Council
TEHRAN, May 18 (AFP) - The final results of February's parliamentary
elections in Tehran will be announced Saturday at the latest, the Iranian
election watchdog body said Thursday, reported by Iranian state radio.
The conservative- dominated Council of Guardians, which has to confirm
all election results, said it was responding to an "express request"
by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei >>>
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* US Jews snub Mandela over Iran support
May 18, 2000 (Daily Telegraph) -- NELSON MANDELA has been snubbed by
a leading American Jewish organisation because he expressed support for
Iran's trial of 13 Jews on spying charges. The 82-year-old former South
African president was due to be presented with a medallion marking his
support for Israel and his long fight for human rights at a lunch given
for him by the American Jewish Committee, an influential lobby group
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Wednesday
May 17, 2000
* Iran jails five for shooting of reformer
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian court jailed five men Wednesday for up
to 15 years for the attempted assassination of leading reformer Saeed Hajjarian,
the official news agency IRNA reported. It said the revolutionary court
sentenced Saeed Asgar, a chemistry student who shot and seriously wounded
Hajjarian in the March attack, to 15 years in jail for endangering national
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* GC To Allow Tehran Results Stand: Paper
Tehran, May 17, IRNA -- An unconfirmed report last night said that the
Guardian Council had taken a vote on whether to invalidate the election
results of the Tehran Constituency, reported the English-language `Iran
News' daily on Wednesday >>>
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* Jewish defendant: It wasn't espionage
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - One of 10 Jewish defendants on trial for spying
in Iran testified Wednesday that he had collected military information
and photographs for the Israeli state, but did not consider his actions
espionage, a defense spokesman said. It was not immediately clear if Javid
Bent-Yacoub's admission amounted to a guilty plea or not >>>
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Tuesday
May 16, 2000
* Another reformist newspaper closed
May 16, (BBC) -- Another reformist newspaper in Tehran has been closed
down on the orders of the hardline Iranian judiciary. The newspaper, Ham'mihan,
was run by the former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi >>>
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* Iran Jews to escape death penalty for "spying": French
lawyer
TEHRAN, May 16 (AFP) - Iranian judicial authorities have assured a French
lawyer that none of the 13 Jews currently on trial for allegedly spying
for Israel will be sentenced to death, the lawyer told AFP Tuesday. Pierre
Dunac, one of two French lawyers granted visas to go to the southern city
of Shiraz for the trial, said, "There will be no death penalty. I
have been given assurances to this effect. It's a certainty." >>> FULL
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Monday
May 15, 2000
* Guardians Council to decide Tehran's fate this week
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian supervisory council that has threatened
to annul election results in the capital said Sunday it would announce
the results of its recount this week. The Guardian Council ``decided to
announce its decision Thursday after recounting is completed in order to
put an end to the waiting of the noble people,'' council head Ayatollah
Ahmad Jannati said on Tehran radio >>>
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* Suspects admit passing material to Israel
SHIRAZ, Iran (Reuters) - Two suspects in Iran's Jewish espionage trial
admitted Monday to working with Israeli intelligence but denied they were
founding members of the alleged spy ring, their lawyers said. Farhad Seleh,
a shopkeeper trained as a geologist, and Asher Zadmehr, a university language
instructor, separately told the closed session of the Revolutionary Court
they had collected information and handed it over to the Jewish state >>>
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* Lawyers of accused Jews threaten to sue state TV
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Defense lawyers for 13 Iranian Jews charged with
spying for Israel threatened to sue ``all those concerned'' on Monday if
any more of their clients' confessions were broadcast on television without
permission. The latest hearing in the closed-door trial adjourned Monday
in the southern city of Shiraz with two more admissions of guilt, said
Esmail Naseri, lawyer for three of the defendants and spokesman of the
defense team >>>
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