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August 2-6, 1999 / Mordad 11-15, 1378
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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