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* Jannati rejects overture from 'crook'
Clinton
* Khatami appeals for political freedom
* Khatami to visit Saudi
* Armenian Patriarch dies
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* Trial of Iran dissident cleric ends,verdict
awaited
* MKO vows to kill Iran officials
* Iran urges U.S. deeds, not words, for better ties
* Iran opens door for UK, says Cook
* Iranian visits Baghdad to discuss POWs issue
* Kadivar rejects charges of spreading propaganda
* Kadivar's trial tests freedom limits
* U.S. lays down conditions for "productive" ties
* Iran carries out test of surface-to-air missile
* Iranians seek extradition of rebels
* Iran state body blocks liberal free trade zone law
* U.S. disowns Iranian group on assassination
* Britain, Iran close to renewing relations -UK
* Oil firms seen breaking U.S.-Iran ice
* Iran's Khatami says to visit Saudi Arabia soon
* Iran raps Western, Iraqi links with rebel group
* Iran mourns murdered general
* Slain Iranian general buried, army chief blames U.S.
* Dissident cleric condemns assassination of general
* Saudi minister in Iran to set date for summit
* Iranian press lash out against France
* Khatami accepts invitation to visit Germany
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Friday
April 16, 1999
* Jannati rejects overture from 'crook' Clinton
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A top hardline Iranian cleric Friday rejected recent
conciliatory remarks by President Clinton, saying they were contradicted
by the United States' hostile policy toward Iran. ``These (Americans) are
crooks. Why are some people so naive and believe them?'' Ayatollah Ahmad
Jannati said in a sermon during weekly Muslim prayers in Tehran carried
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* Khatami appeals for political freedom in Iran
TEHRAN, April 15 (AFP) - Iran's moderate President Mohammad Khatami
appealed Thursday for the development of political freedoms amid an offensive
launched against his supporters by powerful conservative rivals. "Freedom
within the framework of law is a must for society and youth," Khatami
said during a tour of the western province of Lorestan ... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami to visit Saudi
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 15 (UPI) -- A Saudi newspaper, Ukaz, has
reported that Iranian President Mohammad Khatemi will make an official
visit to Saudi Arabia next month, the first by an Iranian president since
the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Armenian Patriarch dies
His beatitude Jean Pierre XVIII Kasparian, Armenian Catholic Patriarch,
the Institute of Bzommar's Patriarchal Clergy, the Armenian Catholic diocese
of Iran, the families Tekeyan, Cazian announce with deep regret the passing
away Monday, April 12 in Tehran, Iran, of: HIS EXCELLENCY VARTAN TEKEYAN
Armenian Catholic bishop of Iran ... FULL
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Thursday
April 15, 1999
* Trial of Iran dissident cleric ends,verdict awaited
TEHRAN, April 15 (Reuters) - An Iranian court is due to issue a verdict
within a week after it ended the trial of a dissident theologian accused
of defaming Iran's Islamic system, newspapers reported on Thursday. The
conservative Jomhuri-ye Eslami, one of a handful of media organisations
allowed inside the courtroom for the one-day trial, quoted the judge as
saying the ruling would be issued within a week ... FULL
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* MKO vows to kill Iran officials
April 15, BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iranian exiles warned Thursday that
the assassination of a top Iranian general was only a prelude to attacks
on other senior officials in Iran. Farid Soleimani of the Mujahedeen Khalq
said his guerrilla group was prepared for a retaliatory attack from the
Iranian armed forces to avenge the killing of Brig. Gen. Ali Sayyad Shirazi.
He said the group was well equipped with tanks and helicopter gunships
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* Iran urges U.S. deeds, not words, for better ties
TEHRAN, April 15 (Reuters) - Iran on Thursday welcomed conciliatory
remarks by U.S. President Bill Clinton, but said Tehran wanted action by
Washington to end hostility towards the Islamic Republic. ``Clinton's remarks
are an admission of the unjust relations America has always had with the
Islamic Republic of Iran, and that is what Iran has stressed in the past
20 years,'' said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by
the official news agency IRNA ... FULL
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* Iran opens door for UK, says Cook
London, apr. 15, IRNA - foreign secretary robin cook has reiterated
the importance for the british government of normalising relations with
iran. welcoming last september's agreement to restore full diplomatic ties,
he said that the upgrading to ambassadorial status had "paved the
way for us to have a dialogue with the organisation of islamic conference
(oic)" under the chairmanship of iran ... FULL
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* Iranian visits Baghdad to discuss POWs issue
BAGHDAD, April 15 (Reuters) - Iraq and Iran are holding talks in Baghdad
on the release of soldiers held since the 1980- 88 war and those missing
in action, an Iraqi newspaper said on Thursday ... FULL
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Wednesday
April 14, 1999
* Kadivar rejects charges of spreading propaganda
TEHRAN, April 14 (AFP) - Popular Iranian reformist Mohsen Kadivar rejected
Wednesday accusations he spread propaganda hostile to the Islamic regime,
charging that his trial was unconstitutional and the court incompetent
to try his case. The cleric told a special court for the clergy on the
opening day of his trial he rejected as "thoroughly false" the
charge that he was a sworn enemy of the Islamic state ... FULL
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* Kadivar's trial tests freedom limits
TEHRAN, April 14 (Reuters) - The trial of Iranian dissident theologian
Mohsen Kadivar opened before a clerical court in Tehran on Wednesday, in
a case expected to test the limits of freedom of thought in the Islamic
republic ... FULL
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* U.S. lays down conditions for "productive" ties with
Iran
MANAMA, April 14 (AFP) - A visiting US envoy said Wednesday that Washington
was seeking a productive relationship with Iran after 20 years of hostility,
provided the Islamic republic meets certain conditions ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran carries out test of surface-to-air missile
TEHRAN, April 14 (AFP) - The Iranian armed forces have carried out a
successful test of a surface-to-air missile, the first in a new line of
air defense weapons, state radio and television said Wednesday. State television
showed pictures of the test launch but did not specify the range of the
new missile, which officials said was designed and built entirely in Iran
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* Iranians seek extradition of rebels
TEHRAN, Iran, April 14 (UPI) -- The families of victims of terrorist
attacks by the Iranian rebel group Mujahedeen Khalq are urging countries
supporting the group to extradite it militants to Iran. The Iranian News
Agency is quoting the families as calling on countries sheltering Mujahedeen
Khalq to expel them to ``prove they are against terrorism.'' ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran state body blocks liberal free trade zone law
TEHRAN, April 14 (Reuters) - A clergy-based Iranian state body on Wednesday
rejected a liberal law that would draw foreign investment to Iran's free
trade zones, the official news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
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Tuesday
April 13, 1999
* U.S. disowns Iranian group on assassination
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday condemned
the assassination of an Iranian general in Tehran and denied it was sheltering
the Mujahideen Khalq organisation, which claimed responsibility for the
attack. ``We condemn what we consider to be an act of terrorism and we
hope that the perpetrators are brought to justice,'' State Department James
Foley told a daily briefing ... FULL
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* Britain, Iran close to renewing relations -UK Foriegn Office
LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - Britain and Iran will end years of diplomatic
squabbling with the imminent appointment of ambassadors in each other's
capitals, a British Foreign Office spokesman said on Tuesday. ``We remain
committed to an agreement to exchange ambassadors,'' said a Foreign Office
spokesman. ``We hope to exchange ambassadors shortly.'' ... FULL
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* Oil firms seen breaking U.S.-Iran ice
MANAMA, April 13 (Reuters) - Iranian-American energy executive Bijan
Mossavar-Rahmani said on Tuesday he was more confident than ever that oil
will persuade arch-rivals Washington and Tehran to bury years of animosity
and resume talking business. ``Oil is where Iran needs the United States
most immediately in terms of money, technology, know-how and oil is what
the U.S. business most seeks in Iran. Oil is what will lubricate this relationship,''
he told Reuters in an interview ... FULL
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* Iran's Khatami says to visit Saudi Arabia soon
TEHRAN, April 13 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami told
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Tuesday that he
hoped to visit the kingdom in the near future, Iranian state media reported.
But Prince Saudi ended his two-day visit without a date being announced
for the long-awaited trip, which would be the highest-ranking by an Iranian
official since the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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Monday
April 12, 1999
* Iran raps Western, Iraqi links with rebel group
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, angry at the murder of one its generals by
the country's main rebel group, condemned Sunday what it called Western
support for the Mujahideen Khalq ... FULL
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* Iran mourns murdered general
TEHRAN, April 12 (Reuters) - Iran's leaders joined large crowds of mourners
on Monday at the funeral of a senior military commander assassinated at
the weekend by Iraq-based rebels ... FULL
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* Slain Iranian general buried, army chief blames U.S.
TEHRAN, April 12 (AFP) - Iran's political leaders joined thousands of
mourners Monday for the funeral of a top general assassinated in an attack
claimed by the opposition as the army's chief of staff blamed the United
States for the slaying ... FULL
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* Dissident Iranian cleric condemns assassination of Iranian general
TEHRAN, April 12 (AFP) - Leading Iranian dissident Ayatollah Hossein-Ali
Montazeri on Monday denounced the assassination of a top general in an
attack claimed by the Iraq-based opposition People's Mujahedeen ... FULL TEXT
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* Saudi minister in Iran to set date for summit
TEHRAN, April 12 (Reuters) - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal
arrived in Tehran on Monday intent on nailing down an elusive date for
a landmark visit to the kingdom by Iran's President Mohammad Khatami. Prince
Saud told reporters at Tehran airport that he would discuss oil prices
and the Kosovo crisis, and attempt to reach an agreement on a date for
Khatami's visit ... FULL
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* Iranian press lash out against France for delaying Khatami trip
TEHRAN, April 12 (AFP) - Iranian newspapers on Monday lashed out at
France for a row which postponed President Mohammad Khatami's planned visit
there, just as he accepted an invitation to visit to Germany ... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami accepts invitation to visit Germany
TEHRAN, April 11 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami accepted
an invitation from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Sunday to visit Germany,
the official IRNA news agency reported. Khatami, speaking to IRNA after
a meeting here with visiting German Chancellery Minister Bodo Hombach,
said the visit would take place at an "appropriate time." ...
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