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January 2003 Iran Special Weapons News

  • EDITORIAL: OVERCOMING REPRESSION VOA 31 Jan 2003 -- A member of an Iranian reformist political party, the Islamic Revolution Mujahedin Organization, Mr. Aghajari spoke out publicly for a "religious renaissance" among Shi'ite Muslims. He said people "should not blindly follow" religious leaders. For this, he was convicted in a closed trial and sentenced to seventy-four lashes, eight years in internal exile, and then, death.
  • IRAN/DISSIDENT VOA 30 jan 2003 -- An ailing Iranian dissident has been freed after five-years of house arrest, following appeals from reformists, professors, and government officials. The cleric was once in line to become Iran's supreme leader
  • HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN? VOA 29 Jan 2003 -- President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, applauded those in Iran pressing for change. But the people of Iran continue to yearn for democracy and freedom, even though Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the hard-line Muslim clerics who rule Iran, has had many who speak out arrested. Some are released; others continue to be held in prison
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 4 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 27 January 2002 -- ONTAZERI MAY BE FREED / AGHAJARI DEATH SENTENCE STILL IN PLACE / TEHRAN MAYOR DISMISSED, SENTENCED TO PRISON / WILL IRANIAN ELECTION LAW BE AMENDED SOON? / PARTIES PREPARE FOR COUNCIL ELECTIONS / STUDENTS CRITICIZE IRANIAN PRESIDENT / IRAN'S PRISONS CONTEND WITH HIV/AIDS / PRISON OFFICIALS ARRESTED AFTER FATAL FIRE / MORE THAN 1 MILLION IRANIAN WOMEN ARE SOLE PROVIDERS / 20,000 IN TEHRAN SLEEP UNDER THE STARS / OFFICIALS' FEAR MEANS NO RESPITE FOR THE PRESS / CONSERVATIVE PROPOSES IRANIAN SATELLITE REBROADCASTS / GAS PIPELINE COULD DOMINATE KHATAMI'S INDIAN VISIT / IRAN-INDIA MILITARY EXERCISES FORTHCOMING / IRGC COMMANDER DESCRIBES U.S. REGIONAL AMBITIONS / IRAN INVITED TO FEBRUARY NATO CONFERENCE / TEHRAN WORKING BILATERALLY, MULTILATERALLY TO RESOLVE IRAQ CRISIS / IRAQI POWS GIVEN ASYLUM / TEHRAN CITES RADIO FREE IRAQ / TURKS MAY WANT FURTHER GAS DISCOUNTS / IRAN PLEDGES MORE AID FOR AFGHAN RECONSTRUCTION
  • IRAN / DISSIDENT VOA 27 Jan 2003 -- Iran's official news agency says the country's powerful Security Council has decided to lift the house arrest of the country's most senior dissident cleric. The ailing dissident was once in line to succeed the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic
  • HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN? VOA 24 Jan 2003 -- Pro-democracy demonstrations by students in Iran have not led to greater freedoms. Instead, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the hard-line Muslim clerics who rule Iran, has had students, journalists, lawyers, and others who speak out, arrested. Some are released; others continue to be held in prison. The so-called Special Clergy Court has also shut down many reform-minded newspapers, accusing them of insulting the clerical authorities. But the people of Iran continue to yearn for democracy and freedom. Even Shi'ite clerics themselves have begun speaking out against the regime of Ayatollah Khamenei. "Those in power do not tolerate any ideas other than their own," Iranian cleric Abolfazl Moussavian told the New York Times. "People have become skeptical toward clerics," he said, "and blame them and religion for the current problems."
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 3 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 20 January 2002 -- EXTREMIST SOCIETY'S RESURGENCE UNDERLINES SYSTEM'S DRAWBACKS / FACTIONALISM LEADS TO COUNCIL DISSOLUTION / KERMAN GOVERNOR DESCRIBES ECONOMIC PLANS, ROLE OF COUNCILS / FARMERS HOUSE COULD ALTER NATIONAL DECISION MAKING / NEWSPAPER CLOSED OVER CARTOON CRISIS / COURT SUMMONS RASHT JOURNALIST / IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS STATUS CRITICIZED / NEW WRINKLES IN POLLING-INSTITUTE CASE / HEALTH-AWARENESS PLAN UNDER WAY IN IRAN / A SHAKY MONTH IN IRAN / IRANIANS GET NEW ID CARDS / CIA DOCUMENTS WMD PROLIFERATION IN IRAN... / ...AS BRITAIN SELLS IRAN DUAL-USE ITEMS... / ...AND GEORGIAN EXPERTS WORK IN IRAN / VISITING KUWAITIS DISCUSS IRAQ, DEFENSE, GAS, AND WATER / TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAQ IN TEHRAN / SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER STOPS IN TEHRAN / IRGC'S CULTURAL MISSION AND THE U.S. THREAT / MORE IRAN-U.S. CONTACTS? / TEHRAN SKEPTICAL OF U.S. GOALS IN IRAQ / TEHRAN SENDS MIXED SIGNALS ON IRAQI REFUGEES / AFGHAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS IRAN / IRAN TO PROVIDE HERAT WITH ELECTRICITY / AFGHAN OFFICIAL SAYS IRANIAN WOMEN BETTER OFF / REMAINING AFGHAN REFUGEES FACE DIFFICULTIES / AFGHAN OPIUM CULTIVATION COULD YIELD IRAN-U.S. COOPERATION / CORRECTION
  • EDITORIAL: IRAN CLOSES REFORM NEWSPAPERS VOA 16 Jan 2003 -- The struggle in Iran continues between Islamic hard-liners and political reformers. In an effort to silence dissent, the Iranian government has shut down two leading reformist newspapers. The Special Clergy Court ordered the daily Hayat-e-Nou [hai-at-eh-no] closed for publishing a sixty-five-year-old cartoon that was said to be insulting the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the first spiritual leader of Iran's extremist Islamic revolution. The court summoned Hayat-e-Nou editor and cleric Hadi [HAH-dee] Khamenei [ham-nay-ee] to face unspecified charges. The court also ordered the prosecution of all people involved in publishing the cartoon. The government closed the reformist daily Bahar, also for allegedly insulting authorities
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 2 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 13 January 2002 -- TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS SHED LIGHT ON IRAN-AL-QAEDA LINKS / LEBANESE AND PALESTINIANS TRAIN IN IRAN / IRANIANS SUDDENLY VERY INTERESTED IN COUNCIL ELECTIONS / GOVERNMENT DOWNPLAYS BOMBS IN ZAHEDAN, BLAMES FOREIGNERS / MORE PARTICIPANTS IN IRANIAN BROADCASTING WAR / IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO MONITOR WEBSITES / SUPREME LEADER SAYS YOUTH RETAIN REVOLUTIONARY VALUES / PARLIAMENT TACKLES PRESS LAW / COURT CONTROVERSY CONTINUES... / ...AND THERE IS CONCERN OVER DEFENDANTS' CONFINEMENT / DOCTORS GIVEN ACCESS TO DISSIDENT CLERIC / GUARDIANS REJECT ANTI-TORTURE BILL / MIXED RECEPTION FOR STONING BAN / RUMORS OF CABINET SHUFFLE DENIED / MAIN STUDENT ORGANIZATION NOT IN RULING COALITION / CRASHED UKRAINIAN PLANE TECHNICALLY SOUND, DEVIATED FROM COURSE / A NEW CLIENT FOR ARTHUR ANDERSEN? / GOVERNMENT TO TACKLE HOUSING DEMAND / IRANIAN AL-QAEDA SUSPECT RELEASED IN PAKISTAN / HEKMATYAR CONTINUES TO CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR AFGHANISTAN / REPATRIATED AFGHAN REFUGEES FACE DISEASE OUTBREAK / IRAN EDUCATES, ASSISTS, ENTERTAINS, AND INFORMS AFGHANS / GUESS WHO IS NOT COMING TO DINNER / PUK AND SCIRI MEET IN TEHRAN / IRAQI OPPOSITIONIST RUNS OUT OF QOM / TEHRAN TRIES TO PRECLUDE IRAQ CONFLICT /
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 1 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 6 January 2002 -- LOW REGISTRATION FOR COUNCIL ELECTIONS WORRIES OFFICIALS / STUDENT PROTESTS CONTINUE AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS / UNREST IN AHVAZ COULD PROVOKE ARAB MINORITY / MORE DEFENDANTS IDENTIFIED IN POLLING-INSTITUTE TRIAL / RIOTS AND FIRES IN IRANIAN PRISONS / IRAN COMMEMORATES AGRICULTURE WEEK / IRAN AND AZERBAIJAN SIGN GAS-SUPPLY AGREEMENT / PROGRESS AT BUSHEHR, BUT FUTURE REACTORS QUESTIONABLE / CRASH NEAR ISFAHAN COULD HINDER TEHRAN-KYIV AVIATION TIES / KHATAMI SIGNS AGREEMENTS AND MAKES SPEECHES IN PAKISTAN ... / ...AND PAKISTANIS TRY TO TRIP HIM UP WITH KASHMIR / IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN STRENGTHEN COUNTERNARCOTICS TIES / HIRMAND RIVER FLOWING AGAIN / TEHRAN PROMISES TO HELP DISABLED AFGHANS / HERAT BUYS IRANIAN ROAD-BUILDING EQUIPMENT... / ...IRANIAN FIRM TO PROVIDE HERAT WITH NATURAL GAS... / ...AND TEHRAN DONATES AUTOMOBILES / IRAN PREPARES FOR IRAQI REFUGEES AND HUMANITARIAN CRISIS / IRGC, INTELLIGENCE LEADERS WARN AGAINST U.S. / TEHRAN DISMISSIVE OF U.S. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE



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