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Summary of Iran Stories of Today's BroadcastsBehnam NateghiSaturday, January 11, 2003
<b>Conservatives Agitate against Reformist Newspaper</b>
* In protest against a 1937 American cartoon printed last week in the reformist newspaper <i>Hayat-e Now,</i> hard-line conservatives staged a demonstration on Friday in front of its Tehran headquarters. In Qom, the association of the conservative Islamic seminarians called for a march on Sunday to demand the closing of the morning newspaper. <i>Hayat-e Now</i>, which is run by the Supreme Leader's brother Hadi Khamenei, features news and articles written by a staff of young journalists. The newspaper apologized for the cartoon and said it would not publish on Saturday and Sunday. The cartoon shows a bearded old man who, conservatives say, resembles founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini being crushed by a large thumb. (Ardavan Niknam, Mehdi Khalaji, Amir Armin)
<b>Fars Police Bans Playing Music in Cars and Shops</b>
* Police of the central Fars province prohibited playing any kind of music at any sound level in cars and shops. (Nazi Azim)
<b>MPs Protest Judiciary's Move to Ban Internet Sites</b>
* Reformist MPs signed a petition today protesting judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Shahroudi's new campaign against the Internet sites he termed "unauthorized." The MPs said there are no laws in Iran against publishing news and information on the Internet. The MPs said Shahuroudi's move last week to form a three-man committee to identify "unauthorized" Internet sites was unlawful. (Mehdi Khalaji)
* Internet expert Rahim Bajoqli tells <b>Radio Farda</b> that the government cannot close Internet sites, which are mostly served by ISPs in the US or Canada, but can set up filters to block access to them in Iran. There are so many ways around those filters, however, that it is practically impossible to completely shut down access to anything on the Internet. (Ali Sajjadi)
<b>Jailed Writer Asks Family for News Silence</b>
* The wife of jailed writer and Tolstoy translator Alireza Jabbari said her husband contacted her from jail after more than two weeks since he was taken away by plainclothes agents and asked her and their daughter to stop their media campaign for his release. Jabbari did not tell her where he had been taken and on what charges. (Golnaz Esfandiari)
<b>Kuwaiti PM in Tehran: Water Deal</b>
* Kuwaiti prime minister arrived in Tehran to negotiate about, among other things, importing water from the Karoun River. (Farideh Rahbar, Cairo)
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مركز فرماندهي نيروي انتظامي فارس در اطلاعيه اي پخش نوار هاي موسيقي مجاز و غير مجاز را به طور مطلق، با صداي بلند يا كوتاه، از اتوموبيل هاي شخصي، مغازه ها و خودروهاي كرايه اي ممنوع اعلام كرد و جرم دانست. پليس استان فارس تهديد كرد در صورت دريافت گزارش در مورد پخش هرنوع موسيقي در اماكن عمومي يا وسائط نقليه شخصي وعمومي، نيروي انتظامي با استناد به آئين دادرسي كيفري با اين مجرمان برخورد قانوني خواهد كرد.