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* Tons of U.S. corn sold to Iran
* Khatami to name names in attack on student hostel
* MPs reject screen-candidates bill
* Turkey, Iran agree anti-rebel deal -Turk official

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* Iran arrests 98 policemen for student hostel raid
* Iran MPs back candidate vetting
* Annan Recalls Killing of Iranians in Afghanistan
* Iran court delays verdict on German in sex case
* Iranian media say Bahrain emir welcomes invitation
* Iran paper warns Japan ahead of FM visit
* Iran to appoint new judiciary head next week
* Student group publishes list of people missing
* Iran says it will resume trade with Norway
* Iran says border row with Turkey resolved
* Iran press blasts Iraq president over war remarks
* Japanese FM to visit Iran , Turkey, Austria next week
* Iran backs call for end to mass weapons in Mideast
* Reformist government seeks political parties
* Leftists launch first real political party
* More student unrest leaders detained in Tehran
* Saddam blasts Iran on anniversary of war end
* Iran retaliates in war of words with Iraq
* Iran hands back two Turkish soldiers
* Egyptian diplomat says ties with Iran "strategic necessity"
* Saddam to deliver speech on Iraq's war with Iran
* No political charges against detained German
* Azerbaijan threatens to cancel presidential trip to Iran
* Export of Czech experts to Iran cannot be prevented

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Thursday
August 12, 1999

* Tons of U.S. corn sold to Iran

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Private exporters reported the sale of 50,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Iran during the week that ended Aug. 5 -- the first such sale in at least four years, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Thursday ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami to name names in attack on student hostel

TEHRAN, Aug 12 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami said on Thursday his government had identified those behind last month's brutal attack on pro-democracy students and would shortly reveal the results of its investigation. ``In investigating this issue we have held hundreds of hours of meetings, scores of people have been interviewed, hundreds of documents have been reviewed and the culprits have been identified,'' Khatami said in remarks reported by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL TEXT

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* MPs reject screen-candidates bill

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The Iranian parliament rejected a bill that would have relaxed the screening of candidates for next year's legislative elections, the Tehran Times reported Thursday. Moderates in parliament wanted the Guardians Council, which acts as an upper house of parliament and oversees elections, to ease its screening process ... FULL TEXT

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* Turkey, Iran agree anti-rebel deal -Turk official

ANKARA, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Turkey and Iran have agreed to cooperate against Turkish Kurdish rebels operating along their border, a Turkish official close to a recent round of talks said on Thursday. He said a border cooperation agreement to be signed on Friday would contain pledges of coordinated action by the two neighbours against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
August 11, 1999

* Iran arrests 98 policemen for student hostel raid

TEHRAN, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces have arrested 98 policemen for their role in a brutal raid on a student dormitory which led to riots in the capital last month, Iran's police chief said in remarks published on Wednesday. Local newspapers said General Hedayat Lotfian made his remarks on Tuesday to a closed-door session of parliament, where he had been summoned to provide an explanation for the July 8-9 attack to suppress a pro-democracy student demonstration ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran MPs back candidate vetting

Aug 11, (BBC) - Parliament in Iran has approved a measure to maintain the system of vetting election candidates for their adherence to Islamic principles. The vetting is carried out by the Council of Guardians, a body dominated by conservatives who have blocked thousands of individuals from standing in past elections ... FULL TEXT

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* Annan Recalls Killing of Iranians in Afghanistan

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan, prodded by Iran, issued a statement Tuesday saying Afghanistan's Islamist Taleban movement had done little to bring to justice the killers of nine Iranians exactly a year ago. Annan said he received a letter from Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi saying the Taleban had not made substantial progress in identifying and punishing the perpetrators of "these outrageous killings." ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran court delays verdict on German in sex case

TEHRAN, Aug 11 (Reuters) - An Iranian court postponed a verdict on Wednesday in the case of a German charged with having sex wih a Moslem woman. Defence lawyer Malek-Houshang Qahari said the court, sitting behind closed doors, was still investigating the case against businessman Helmut Hofer ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian media say Bahrain emir welcomes invitation

TEHRAN, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Iranian media reported on Wednesday that Bahrain's emir had welcomed an invitation to visit Iran, a country once accused by Bahrain of trying to fan unrest in the Gulf Arab state. Iranian newspapers said Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa said he hoped to accept the invitation from Iranian President Mohammad Khatami as soon as he could ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran paper warns Japan ahead of FM visit

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) - Iran confirmed Tuesday that Japan's foreign minister would visit Tehran next week as a conservative newspaper warned Tokyo not to use the visit as an occasion to start a row over Iran 's missile program. The visit comes amid reports from Tokyo that Japan could resume low-interest infrastructure loans to Iran which were frozen in 1995 in line with US accusations that Tehran sponsors international terrorism ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
August 10, 1999

* Iran to appoint new judiciary head next week

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Iran plans to appoint a new judiciary head next week to replace Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a stern critic of President Mohammad Khatami's liberal reforms, the judiciary announced on Tuesday. Yazdi, a staunch conservative at the helm of the powerful judiciary for 10 years, will be succeeded by Iraqi-born Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi, who has not taken sides in the current factional dispute in the Islamic republic ... FULL TEXT

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* Student group publishes list of people missing

August 9, 1999 (Neshat - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- The Council Elected by Students [CES] has issued its communique No 7 regarding the names of the people missing in the Tehran University hostel incident. The communique said: Following the announcement in communique No 6 of the names of the people missing in the Tehran University hostel incident, it is hereby announced that according to reports received from the public, the whereabouts of Maysam Ardeshiri, Daryush Ramezani, Kamran Alamdehi are now known, and the names of three other people have been added to the list ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran says it will resume trade with Norway

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Iran said it will resume trade with Norway after the two countries agreed to exchange ambassadors following a four-year break over an Iranian death order against British author Salman Rushdie, newspapers reported on Tuesday. ``Iran welcomes the Norwegian government's move to upgrade diplomatic relations,'' newspapers quoted foreign ministry spokesman Hamidreza Asefi as saying ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran says border row with Turkey resolved

ANKARA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that a quarrel with Turkey over alleged border incursions had been resolved at talks between the two neighbours in the Turkish capital. Tension between the Islamic republic of Iran and officially secularist Turkey rose in July when Tehran accused Turkey of launching an air strike on Iranian soil which it said killed five Iranians ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran press blasts Iraq president over war remarks

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Iranian newspapers condemned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, calling him a ``decaying dictator'' for his remarks blaming Iran for the two countries' 1980-1988 war. ``The ruthlessness and savagery of this Arab leader has made Iraq into a prison and horrifying camp, and kept the Iraqis from the bandwagon of civilisation and development,'' the government daily Iran said ... FULL TEXT

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* Japanese FM to visit Iran , Turkey, Austria next week

TOKYO, Aug. 10 -- Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday he will make a weeklong visit to Iran , Turkey and Austria from next Monday. In Iran , Foreign Ministry officials said Komura intends to reiterate international concerns over the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles when he meets with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazzi ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran backs call for end to mass weapons in Mideast

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday welcomed a call made this week by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. ``Iran's diplomacy gives priority to elimination of weapons of mass destruction at regional and international levels,'' the official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi as saying ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
August 9, 1999

* Reformist government seeks political parties

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's interior minister Sunday called for the formation of political parties in the Islamic republic, a move seen in line with President Mohammad Khatami's vision of an Islamic ``civil society'' in Iran. ``Political development is a fundamental aspect of our system. There's is no denying,'' Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari said. ''We must find a strategy to best achieve this goal, given the new atmosphere created and emphasis in the constitution on the need for parties and people's participation in the political process.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Leftists launch first real political party

August 2, 1999, (Iran Weekly Press Digest) -- Iranian leftists proclaimed Monday that they will launch the first real political party in Iran's history. The Islamic Labour Party (ILP) will be the first political party which will be formed in Iran with the initiative of the Labour House and labour syndicates, Labour House Secretary General and main founder of the ILP, Ali-Reza Mahjub, told reporters in Tehran ... FULL TEXT

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* More student unrest leaders detained in Tehran

Tehran (dpa) - More leaders of last month's student unrest in Teheran have been arrested and detained, the daily Neshat reported Sunday. Abolfazl Passebani, a student leader from the Economic School of Tehran University, was brought to the notorious Evin prison after being heard by the Islamic Revolution Court (IRC), Neshat reported ... FULL TEXT

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* Saddam blasts Iran on anniversary of war end

BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Sunday marked the 11th anniversary of the end of the Iraq-Iran war by accusing Tehran of ill-treating thousands of Iraqi prisoners of war he said it still held. He also admitted for the first time that Iraq had made a mistake when it ordered dozens of aircraft to fly to Iranian airfields at the start of the 1991 Gulf War, and berated Tehran for refusing to release them. ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran retaliates in war of words with Iraq

August 9, (BBC) -- Iran has hit back at President Saddam Hussein following the Iraqi leader's verbal attack on his arch enemy on Sunday. The war of words between the neighbouring states erupted on Sunday on the 11th anniversary of the end of the eight-year war between them. On Monday, a spokesman told the Iranian press: "Unfortunately, the head of the Iraqi Government is not prepared to put aside his irrational behaviour in relations with other countries." ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran hands back two Turkish soldiers

ANKARA, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Iran on Monday handed back two Turkish soldiers it arrested last month in Iran amid a tense quarrel between the two estranged neighbours over Tehran's accusations of Turkish air and ground incursions. Turkish Foreign Ministry officials said the handover had taken place at an isolated border crossing in Turkey's southeastern province of Van.

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* Egyptian diplomat says ties with Iran "strategic necessity"

TEHRAN, Aug 8 (AFP) - Egypt's highest-ranking diplomat in Iran said cooperation between the two nations was a "strategic necessity" and praised the expansion of ties under Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. "Cooperation between our two countries is a strategic necessity that must go beyond mere words and be translated into concrete action to establish peace and stability in the region," Mohammad Al-Refaieh, head of Egypt's interests section in Tehran, told the official IRNA news agency Saturday ... FULL TEXT

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Friday
August 6, 1999

* Saddam to deliver speech on Iraq's war with Iran

BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein will give a televised speech on Sunday marking the anniversary of the end of Iraq's 1980-88 war with its neighbour Iran, the official Iraqi News Agency said on Friday. The speech, an annual event, will include the issue of Iraqi prisoners of war still held by Iran and Baghdad's calls for peace, INA said. ``President Saddam Hussein is to give a comprehensive and profound ideological and national speech to the great Iraqi people, brave armed forces and sons of the glorious Arab nation and friends in the world on the day of days (Great Victory Day) at 11:00 a.m (0700 GMT) on August 8, 1999,'' INA said ... FULL TEXT

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* No political charges against detained German

Teheran (dpa) - There are no political charges against the detained German businessman Helmut Hofer in Iran , informed sources said Thursday. ``There are no political charges against Hofer and the remarks by the judiciary spokesman were not based on any political aspects,'' the sources said ... FULL TEXT

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* Azerbaijan threatens to cancel presidential trip to Iran

August 5, BAKU (AFP) - Azerbaijan yesterday threatened to cancel a scheduled presidential trip to Iran later this year should Tehranrefuse to deport an alleged coup plotter living there. Baku repeated its demand that Tehran hand over Mahir Javadov, accused with his brother Rovshan of attempting to overthrow President HeydarAliyev in March, 1995. Rovshan was killed during the political turmoil ... FULL TEXT

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* Export of Czech experts to Iran cannot be prevented

PRAGUE, Aug 3 (CTK, Czech News Agency) - Czech officials have been searching in vain for three months for a way of preventing Czech firms from exporting expertise and giving advice on the completion of the nuclear power plant under construction at Bushehr in Iran , reports Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes today ... FULL TEXT

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