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Journalist to appear at court on charges of distorting public opinion

Tehran, Aug 18, IRNA -- Managing Director of Persian language daily
`Tose'e' Gholi Sheikhi is to show up at the Bench Four of the Court of
Civil Servants' Offenses on Tuesday for the fourth time in the last
one and half months to respond to charges against his daily.
Chief Editor of Tose'e Seyed Hossein Sajjadi told IRNA here on
Monday that Sheikhi had been summoned to the court on the basis of a
complaint against him by the general prosecutor and is facing charges
such as distorting public opinion.
Sajjadi said daily Tose'e had in the former session been informed
of 23 counts of charges.
He added that Islamic Azad University, Security Department at the
Islamic Republic of Iran's Police, Basij and daily `Ya al-Tharat' are
among the plaintiffs in the case.

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Rafsanjani says Iran is too strong to be defeated

Tehran, Aug 18, IRNA -- Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani said here Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is too
strong to be defeated.
Rafsanjani told a group of war veterans on the anniversary of
their return home that the Islamic Republic of Iran is now highly
stable and firm, and is only worried about the condition of Muslim
Iraqis.
He said the conditions of Saddam, Baath party, and Iraqi rulers
and the unfavorable state of US occupiers in Iraq set a good example
of divine justice.
"God punishes tyrants by tyrants; enemies of the Islamic Republic
(of Iran) were punished with each other but the Islamic Republic of
Iran is now firm and stable, being concerned about the condition of
Muslim Iraqi people," said Rafsanjani.
He lauded war veterans as main elements of the Islamic Revolution
and its inheritors and owners.

http://www.irna.ir/en/tnews/030819191308.etn04.shtml