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1.marts 1998

Addressing the Friday Prayers sermons in Tehran. Ayatollah Yazdi lashed out at Salaam daily and the Tehran mayors for voicing their objection to other sources instead of the Judiciary. After their release. the mayors who had been detained in connection with the case of the Municipality, held meetings with some MPs and the Militant Clerics League ad claimed

that they had been tortured during detention.

*Salaam also reported that the Unity Consolidation Office (UCO) had protested to the rejection of qualifications of several Imam's Line candidates for the upcoming Majlis by-elections. A statement issued by the UCO said the measure by the Council of Guardians aimed at weakening the principle of the system's republicanism and violation of human rights of

individuals. It added that members of the UCO will hold a protest assembly in Tehran this week.

The Council of Guardians last week rejected the qualifications of Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, Behzad Nabavi, Rajabali Mazrouie. and Mehrzad Sadaqiani who all belong to the left wing.

KARO KARGAR The daily carried an unofficial report which said the reason that the qualifications of Behzad Nabavi, a candidate of the Majlis by-elections, had been rejected was "-his efforts to consolidate the pillars of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime." Behzad Nabavi was the spokesman of Mohammad Ali Rajaie's government early after the 1979 Revolution and later was appointed minister of heavy industries for eight years. He is now the official member of the leftist Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization. He was in prison before the Revolution for his anti Shah campaign.

SHOMA The weekly which belongs to the rightist Islamic Coalition Association has carried an article in its latest issue naming nine people who, it said, gave regular interviews with the BBC. Those named are: Ibrahim Yazd, Hashemi Sabaghian, Ali Akbar Moinfar, Masoud Behnoud, Iraj Jamshidi, Jahangir Behrouz, Sadeq Zibakalam, Saced Leilaz and Shirin Ebadi. The paper criticized these persons for providing the BBC with all the information they needed and urged them to refrain from speaking in a manner favored by imperialist media.

* The weekly also reported the execution of retired Army General Siyavosh Bayani on charges of espionage for the CIA. The report said Bayani was a member of the Air Force and commander of the anti aircraft unit in the city of Tabriz (in East Azarbaijan Province) until 1994. He was arrested in 1995, put on trial and sentenced to death by the Revolution

Court and executed.

KAYHAN Referring to a planned gathering on Monday by the Unity Consolidation office to protest the rejection of qualifications of the Imam's Line candidate. the afternoon daily said: "The Council of Guardians has not announced its final decision concerning the rejection or endorsement of the candidates yet. The final decision is going to be announced on Monday and news on rejection of qualifications of the candidates are based on what is heard."

JAMEAH Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, the spokesman of the .Muslim Students Following the Imam's Line. and a member of the left wing has attributed the rejection of his candidature to the Majlis by-elections to the opposition groups' serious criticism and measures against the plans and projects of President Seyed Mohammad Khatami's Cabinet. In an interview with Jameah, Asgharzadeh said, "If the members of Parliament do not protect the rights of citizens and those who voted them in, and do not take concrete steps to control approbative supervision, they will be the next victims of the 'blade' of this supervision".

Fazlollah Salavati, the candidate of the left wing from Isfahan, in relation to the reasons for the rejection of his candidature, said. "Perhaps certain individuals with evil designs, who have influence in the Council of Guardians have created a false image of us there". According to the laws of the Majlis, the Council of Guardians is the authority that confirms or rejects the qualification of the candidates.

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