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| | Events that made year 1379: daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Tehran, March 18, IRNA -- A morning daily on Sunday wrote that the most significant events of the year 1379 were the mass closures of reformist newspapers and periodicals, the cancellation of 800,000 votes cast in Tehran constituency's parliamentary elections, and the holding of the run-off elections. |
 | | "The year 1379 was also the year in which the lawyer for the Tehran University students, who were beaten up during the 1999 riots, was himself arrested for his alleged involvement in making and distributing a video tape on Farshad Ebrahimi, a former Ansar Hizbollah member who confessed to many illegal acts," it wrote. |
 | | Although 1379 is about to end, the ripples of political events that took place during the year will carry over into 1380, the editorial said, adding that those events were also of international significance. |
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