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* Fallahian "arrested" and
accused of plotting
* Khatami defends aide against impeachment bid
* Iraq accuses Iran of attack plan
* Germany, Iran look to improve relations
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* Conservatives want Mohajerani impeached
* Kadivar sentenced to 18 months in prison
* Karbaschi appeals again for retrial
* Iran wants more than a "diplomatic smile"
* U.S. school shooting top news on Iran TV
* U.S. condemns Iran crackdown on Bahais
* Iran opens military electronics plant
* Clinton's remarks spark Iran debate on U.S. ties
* Journalists appeal to Khatami for protection
* Khatami slams armed opposition on army day
* Jannati rejects overture from 'crook' Clinton
* Khatami appeals for political freedom
* Khatami to visit Saudi
* Armenian Patriarch dies
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Thursday
April 22, 1999
* Fallahian "arrested" and accused of plotting murders,
coup
Former intelligence minister Ali Fallahian has been arrested on charges
of plotting political murders and organizing a coup against President Khatami,
according to a flier distributed in Tehran and published by an opposition
group in Europe ... FULL
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* Khatami defends aide against impeachment bid
TEHRAN, April 22 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami defended
his moderate culture minister against impeachment proceedings launched
by hardline parliamentary deputies and expressed hope he would survive
the motion, newspapers said on Thursday ... FULL
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* Iraq accuses Iran of attack plan
Thursday, April 22, 1999, BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq has accused Iran
of using the violent actions of an Iranian opposition group to justify
a possible attack against Iraq. The accusation came in a letter from Iraq's
foreign minister that was delivered to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
on Wednesday. Iraq's official news agency issued a copy of the letter ...
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* Germany, Iran look to improve relations
BONN, April 22 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer may
visit Iran in the second half of this year as part of efforts to improve
relations, his ministry said on Thursday after he met Iranian counterpart
Kamal Kharazzi ... FULL
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Wednesday
April 21, 1999
* Iran conservatives want liberal minister impeached
TEHRAN, April 21 (Reuters) - A group of conservative Iranian deputies
called on Wednesday for the impeachment of Iran's moderate culture minster,
in the latest assault on President Mohammad Khatami's reforms ... FULL
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* Kadivar sentenced to 18 months in prison
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Mohsen Kadivar, a liberal cleric charged with
spreading propaganda hostile to Iran's Islamic regime, has been sentenced
to 18 months in prison, his lawyer announced Wednesday. Hossein Musavi
Tabrizi told the official IRNA news agency that Kadivar, who is close to
reformist President Mohammad Khatami, had been sentenced to prison by the
hardline Special Court for Clergy ... FULL
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* Karbaschi appeals again for retrial on corruption charges
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Tehran's former moderate mayor Gholamhossen
Karbaschi, convicted last year of corruption, lodged another appeal to
the supreme court Wednesday seeking a retrial, his lawyer said. The move
followed the failure Tuesday of a similar appeal to the supreme court by
Karbaschi, who faces arrest at any time to serve a two-year jail term imposed
in December ... FULL
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* Iran wants more than a "diplomatic smile" from Clinton
TEHRAN, April 21 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi welcomed
Wednesday conciliatory remarks by US President Bill Clinton but stressed
that a "diplomatic smile" was not enough and there must be a
"change in behaviour." ... FULL
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* U.S. school shooting gets top billing on Iran TV
TEHRAN, April 21 (Reuters) - Iran's state television allotted 10 minutes
to the ``tragic'' U.S. school shooting at the top of its main news programme
on Wednesday, blaming it on the widespread depiction of violence in American
movies ... FULL
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Tuesday
April 20, 1999
* U.S. condemns Iran crackdown on Bahai followers
WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - The United States, in a departure from
a recent warming of relations, on Tuesday expressed concern over Iran's
sentencing of four members of the Bahai faith and condemned persecution
of Bahai followers. ``We are deeply concerned about the recent sentencing
to prison of four Iranian citizens for the exercise of their Bahai faith,''
the White House said in a statement ... FULL
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* Iran opens military electronics plant
TEHRAN, April 20 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday opened a plant to mass
produce electrical and electronic equipment for armoured personnel carriers
(APCs), the Iranian news agency IRNA reported. It said Defence Minister
Ali Shamkhani opened the factory in Tehran, which is affiliated with the
state Defence Industries Organisation ... FULL
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Monday
April 19, 1999
* Clinton's remarks spark Iran debate on U.S. ties
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Conciliatory remarks by President Clinton toward
Iran have revived a heated debate over ending two decades of hostilities
with the United States. Reformist allies of President Mohammad Khatami,
eager to speed up rapprochement with the West and normalize trade relations,
played up his remarks, saying they marked a ``new phase'' away from adversarial
sentiment and calling for a revision of policies ... FULL
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* Journalists appeal to Khatami for protection
TEHRAN, April 18 (AFP) - Over 320 Iranian journalists have called on
President Mohammad Khatami to guarantee their legal rights and stop newspaper
bans. "We ask that journalism be recognized as a distinct profession
and be afforded all legal services and support," the journalists said
in a letter to Khatami published by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL TEXT
* Also see "Hamshahri" news about journalists voicing
their concerns... FULL
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* Khatami slams armed opposition on army day
TEHRAN, April 18 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami used
the annual Army Day parade on Sunday to launch a scathing attack on the
country's armed opposition following last week's assassination of a general
by the Iraq-based organisation ... FULL
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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
on state radio ... FULL
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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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