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May 22-26, 2000 / Khordad 2-6, 1379

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Friday
May 26, 2000

* Eighteen Iraqi and Iranian refugees remain in prison

International Federation of Iranian Refugees Press Release, May 25, 2000 -- According to the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) - Turkey Branch, eighteen Iraqi and Iranian refugees (5 women, 12 men and 1 child) remain in the custody of the Turkish government today. IFIR has received numerous reports of their mistreatment and abuse by the Turkish authorities and of repeated interrogations >>> FULL TEXT

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Index

* Eighteen Iraqi and Iranian refugees remain in prison
* 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, reformist journalist, 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

* 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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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,'' >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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