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A crowd of about 15,000 turned the ceremony for Dariush Forouhar and his wife Parvaneh at the Fakhar mosque into a nationalist rally.
Mourners carried portraits of the couple, found dead in their Tehran flat Sunday, and chanted ``Death to tyranny'' and ''Freedom of thought forever.''
Others sang patriotic songs and celebrated the late nationalist leader Mohammad Mossadegh, who helped inspire Foruhar and his small Iran Nation Party.
``Do you see the crowd?'' said one of the organizers. ``It shows how deeply rooted Iran's national movement and the ideals of Mossadegh are in the hearts of the people.''
At one point the crowd streamed past a row of buses waiting to take them to the cemetery, instead heading toward the site of the former parliament, a symbol of Iran's struggle for independence.
Police barred the way and there were scuffles but no apparent injuries.
His cruel and barbarous murder serves as yet another blood stain on the hands of the medieval Islamic Republic and proves beyond any doubt that the so called 'reformist' Khatami is nothing but a sham.
National Movement of Iranian Resistance condemns this atrocity and finds the Islamic Republic directly responsible for it. Long Live Iran, Long Live the Brave Sons and Daughters of our Motherland, Death to the 'Velayat-e-faqih'.
The resolution was approved by the General Assembly's social, humanitarian and cultural committee by a vote of 63 to 35 with 60 abstentions.
A vote by the committee, which includes all U.N. members, is tantamount to formal adoption by the General Assembly, which last year adopted a similar resolution by 74 to 32.
In the course of this fire which continued until the next morning, large parts of this forest and 120 acres of pasture were completely destroyed.
More Power to Islamic Loyalists in Universities - AFP -Iran's parliament approved a law on Wednesday allowing Islamic militia and militant activists to play a more active role in universities.
The law in principle allows the militia, a force of Islamic loyalists, to "reinforce their presence" in universities and regulate cultural activities.
The paramilitary militia has launched a campaign to fight signs of Western culture in the Islamic Republic.
Still, despite the apologies from Khatami and Rafsanjani, Palestinian Authority officials continued to lash out at Khameini during a weekend visit to Iraq. On November 7, while holding talks with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad, Palestinian Authority Secretary General Tayeb Abdelrahim told Radio Monte Carlo that, "an extremist faction in Iran, led by Khamenei wants to aggravate the situation in the Palestinian territories to spark a civil war." He continued, "The Palestinian Authority is utterly convinced that the hard-liners in Iran have succeeded in infiltrating certain Palestinian factions which worked with Iran and received its aid in the past." However, Abdelrahim made a point of stating that his comments were not directed at Khatami or Rafsanjani, but at Khameini and his allies.
An earlier vote a few weeks ago was countermanded by the higher state body, the Guardian Council, after concerns were expressed over funding the segregation of hospitals.
The government and health experts had also criticised the parliamentary bill, and there was concern that lives would be put at risk where a doctor of the right sex is unavailable.
Details of the revised measures are still unclear.
They're to be considered again by the Guardian Council before becoming law.
NMIR : It is time that those so called Iranian 'intellectuals' who have laid all their hopes and dreams behind a saviour 'reformist'
president realise that no mullah can reform the Islamic Republic. The mere fact that the above bill is presented to the parliament is enough proof
that the Islamic Republic belongs to the medieval period and not to the 21St century. No possible real leaps of progress can be made unless this
backward looking and reactionary cast who are ruling Iran are thrown into the dustbin of history. These so called 'intellectuals' have already once
before presented Khomeini as the Ghandi of Iran and both themselves and our motherland has dearly paid the price. If they want to make the same
mistake again, then they themselves will also be thrown into the dustbin of history.
Seperation of State and Religion the Most Fundamental Slogan of the Struggle Against IRI - (in Farsi)
Iran Denies Deal Over Convicted Nationals - The Iranian government has denied rumours concerning the exchange of Kazem Darabi, the convicted Iranian terrorist and the German national, sentenced to death for having had a sexual relationship with a Moslem Iranian girl.