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Friday
May 26, 2000
* Rafsanjani more threat to reformers outside than inside parliament:
analyst
TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
who announced Thursday he would not be taking up his seat in the new parliament,
is more of a threat to the assembly's reformist majority outside than inside,
an analyst said Friday. "This is a dramatic turn of events, and also
a declaration of war on the reformists," said secular republican Daryush
Abdali, who served time in prison in the 1970s for his opposition to the
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* Dutch FM to make first Tehran visit since 1979 revolution
TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Dutch Foreign Minister Jozias van Aartsen will
make an official visit to Iran from Monday, the first by a minister from
the Netherlands since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Dutch embassy announced
Friday >>>
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* Iran celebrates Hezbollah feat over Israel with sweets, cakes
TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Cakes and sweets (US candy) were distributed
among the congregation at Friday prayers at Tehran University as a conservative
speaker applauded Israel's defeat in Lebanon at the hands of the Hezbollah
militia. "While many countries were incapable, it took the Hezbollah
to expel the enemy, thanks to its religious faith and the support of friendly
countries such as Iran," said prayer leader Ahmad Janati >>> FULL TEXT
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* Tehran holds funeral for 300 soldiers killed in war with Iraq
TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Several thousand people came out after Friday
prayers to attend a state funeral for 300 soldiers killed during Iran's
war with Iraq. The bodies of the soldiers, which were recently discovered
12 years after the end of Iran-Iraq War, were wrapped in Iranian flags
and carried by military trucks from the tomb of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
the founder of the Islamic republic, where they had been displayed overnight
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Index
* Rafsanjani more threat to reformers
outside than inside parliament
* Dutch FM to make first Tehran visit since 1979 revolution
* Iran celebrates Hezbollah feat over Israel with sweets,
cakes
* Tehran holds funeral for 300 soldiers killed in war with
Iraq
* Reformists prepare to take legislative control
* Hardliners attack pro-democracy campus rally
* Reformist rally angers some
* Conservative-dominated parliament winds up business
* Defense questions suspects in Iran Jewish spy case
* Shops owned by Jews attacked
* Prosecutors say Iran backed deadly Turkish Muslim group
* Media Crackdown Continues
* Popular cultural center attacked by "commandos"
* Militia plans protest at Tehran University
* Reformists win six more seats in Iran
* Plane hijacker sentenced to death in Iran
* Khatami attacks hard-liners
* Reformers decry Tehran election ruling
* Students stage protest
* Akbar Ganji accused of contacts with US military officer
* Abdollah Nouri allowed by court to appeal against sentence
* New reformist newspaper appears in Tehran
* Final Jewish spy suspects plead innocent
* National front demands release of political prisoners
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Thursday
May 25, 2000
* Rafsanjani withdraws
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani resigned
Thursday from the incoming parliament, state radio announced, depriving
hard-liners of a leading figure in the power struggle between conservatives
and reformists. His decision came a day after reformists - who have aligned
themselves behind President Mohammad Khatami - shouted slogans against
him at a Tehran University demonstration >>>
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* Reformists prepare to take legislative control
TEHRAN, May 25 (AFP) - Iran's new reformist-dominated parliament is
to hold its first session Saturday, amid fears that former president Akbar
Hashemi-Rafsanjani will prove a fly in the ointment. The influential Rafsanjani,
66, who chairs the arbitration body, the Expediency Council, and headed
the conservative-backed ticket in the elections to the new assembly, is
expected to bid for the post of speaker which he held for most of the 1980s
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Wednesday
May 24, 2000
* Hardliners attack pro-democracy campus rally
TEHRAN, May 24 (Reuters) - Iranian Moslem militiamen severely beat up
pro-democracy students in an attack on a rally at Tehran University on
Wednesday, witnesses said. The hardline militia, dressed in black and wearing
the trademark Palestinian headscarf, grabbed and kicked around one student
at a time as they charged the crowd >>>
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* Reformist rally angers some
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A confrontation between supporters of rival hard-liners
and reformists in Iran's government ended peacefully Wednesday after police
formed a human chain to keep the two sides apart. About 200 hard-line supporters
converged outside the locked gate of Tehran University, while some 2,000
pro-reform student protesters rallied inside. Despite the gate, police
formed a human chain to keep the rivals about 15 yards apart >>>
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* Conservative-dominated parliament winds up business
TEHRAN, May 24 (AFP) - The outgoing conservative-dominated Iranian parliament
held its final session Wednesday, before giving way to a new Majlis firmly
on the side of reformist President Mohammad Khatami, with the battle for
the key position of speaker now underway. Outgoing speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri,
in a speech at the end of the parliamentary session, said the experience
of being in parliament since the 1979 Islamic revolution had seen his hair
and beard turn grey >>>
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* Defense questions suspects in Iran Jewish spy case
SHIRAZ, Iran (Reuters) - The defense in Iran's Jewish spy trial kept
trying Monday to discredit confessions by the accused and demanded confirmation
that material allegedly passed to Israel was in fact secret. A clearly
energized defense team asked the judge to release the 10 detained suspects
on bail, and bitterly attacked the state broadcasting service for airing
admissions by the defendants in what the court had said was a closed hearing
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* Shops owned by Jews attacked
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - The ongoing espionage trial of 13 Jews in Iran has
led to angry attacks on Jewish businesses, including one arson, a Jewish
leader said Wednesday. ``This trial has created problems for the whole
Jewish community in Iran,'' Haroun Yashayaii, head of Iran's Jewish society,
said outside the courthouse as proceedings resumed in the southern city
of Shiraz >>>
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* Prosecutors say Iran backed deadly Turkish Muslim group
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 24 (AFP) - Turkish prosecutors accused Iran
on Wednesday of providing support to a hardline Islamic group blamed for
the murders of hundreds of people in the country, Anatolia news agency
said. The accusation came in a 180-page indictement in which prosecutors
in this southeastern city demanded the death sentence for 13 members of
the Hizbullah movement on charges of trying to destroy Turkey's constitutional
order and involvement in the murders of 156 people >>>
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Tuesday
May 23, 2000
* Media Crackdown Continues
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian hard-liners, stung by the confirmed victory
of reformist candidates, shut down a newly launched newspaper Tuesday,
the 19th paper closed in a crackdown that began last month. State-run radio
also warned newspapers that questioning the results of recent parliamentary
elections could lead to prosecution, as the feud between reformers and
hard-liners over alleged vote tampering deepened in Iran. The Mellat daily
was banned by the hard-line judiciary for ``violating press laws,'' >>>
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* Popular cultural center attacked by "commandos"
TEHRAN, May 23 (AFP) - Approximately 50 people armed with tear-gas and
batons attacked a popular cultural center in north Tehran Monday, the official
paper of the Tehran municipality, Hamshahri, reported Monday. "After
incapacitating our security guards, they broke the windows and doors down
and proceeded to attack the center's director," said an employee of
the Andisheh cultural center quoted by the daily >>>
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* Militia plans protest at Tehran University
TEHRAN, May 23 (AFP) - Iran's volunteer fundamentalist militia called
for a massive rally Tuesday at Tehran University, one day after thousands
of students gathered to celebrate the third anniversary of reformist President
Mohammed Khatami's election. The radio said the Bassijis planned to demonstrate
in "well-regulated and disciplined columns" to commemorate the
liberation of Khorramshahr, a southwest Iranian city taken back in 1982
after a year and a half of Iraqi occupation >>>
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* Reformists win six more seats in Iran
TEHRAN, May 23 (AFP) - Iran's elections watchdog has confirmed six more
election results, attributing all the seats to reformists close to President
Mohammad Khatami, the official news agency IRNA said Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT
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* Plane hijacker sentenced to death in Iran
TEHRAN, May 23 (AFP) - A Tehran court has passed a death sentence on
an Iranian found guilty of hijacking a plane in November 1993, the government
newspaper Iran reported Tuesday >>>
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Monday
May 22, 2000
* Khatami attacks hard-liners
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president attacked the hard-line opponents
of his reform program today, saying nobody could claim a monopoly on interpretations
of Islam. In a speech to mark the third anniversary of his election in
1997, President Mohammad Khatami condemned the people behind the shooting
of his close associate, Saeed Hajjarian, a Tehran city councilor >>>
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* Reformers decry Tehran election ruling
TEHRAN, May 21 (Reuters) - Reformers have challenged final election
results released at the weekend by hardline clerical watchdogs, clouding
parliamentary polls once hailed as the freest and fairest in Iran 's history.
Supporters of moderate President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday denounced a
decision by a hardline oversight board to invalidate 25 percent of the
almost three million votes cast on February 18 for Tehran's 30 seats in
the new parliament >>>
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* Students stage protest
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - About 3,000 student demonstrators accused the hard-line
Guardian Council on Monday of tampering with Iran's parliamentary election
results, joining a barrage of criticism from reformist politicians and
media. The council, which oversees elections, finalized results for the
February race in the capital only Saturday. It awarded reformists 26 seats
in Tehran and hard-liners two. Two other reformist victories were annulled
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* Akbar Ganji, reformist journalist, accused of contacts with US
military officer
TEHRAN, May 21 (AFP) - Prominent Iranian reformist journalist Akbar
Ganji had "illegal links" with a US military officer in Turkey,
the judiciary said in a statement Sunday explaining why he was arrested
a month ago. "The reason of Ganji's arrest is not the things he said
... but his illegal links with a US officer with NATO and certain important
members of the counter-revolutionary opposition in Turkey," said the
statement published in Sunday's press. It did not elaborate >>> FULL TEXT
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* Abdollah Nouri allowed by court to appeal against sentence
TEHRAN, May 21 (AFP) - Former Iranian interior minister Abdollah Nuri
is to be allowed to appeal against his five-year jail sentence for "anti-Islamic
propaganda," the official IRNA news agency said Sunday. "The
courts have accepted my request for an appeal for Mr. Nuri," said
lawyer Mohsen Rahami, expressing "optimism" about the outcome,
IRNA reported >>>
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* New reformist newspaper appears in Tehran
TEHRAN, May 22 (AFP) - A new reformist newspaper hit Tehran newsstands
Monday, several weeks after most liberal newspapers were closed down by
the government. Mellat -- or The Nation -- is to "reflect the voice
of the silent majority," the newspaper says in its logo >>> FULL TEXT
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* Final Jewish spy suspects plead innocent
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The last three suspects in Iran's Jewish spy trial
denied Monday they were part of an ring passing information to Israeli
intelligence, judiciary officials said. They said shoe merchant Omid Tefileen,
student Navid Balazadeh and his uncle Hedayat Broukhim-Nejad appeared at
a closed-door session of the Revolutionary Court to respond to the charges
and protest their innocence. All three are free on bail >>>
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* National front demands release of political prisoners
This is a shortened form of the resolution introduced by Iran National
Front-USA... 1.We condemn the latest attempt of coup-d'etat against the
the pro Democracy movement, election and the press (namely closing the
18 pro-reform newspapers in Iran, arresting the editors , writers and publishers
of this press). We demand free press and the release of the arrested journalists
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