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* CEP Nominates 23-Member Central Council
* Iran will respect legal rights of accused spies
* More than one million Iranians live in land of ``Great
Satan''
* Iranian leaders warn of new "plots"
* Green group in drive to clean Caspian beaches
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* New police chief appointed
* Cleric: Rushdie wasn't to be killed
* MKO leader still banned from UK
* Khatami vows to shake up bureaucracy
* Tehran police chief sacked over student raid
* Khamenei gives unprecedented support to Khatami
* Iran paper calls for live TV debates before elections
* Iran, Pakistan agree to combat drug smuggling
* Egypt diplomat says killer street blocking ties with Iran
* Iran culture minister defends dancing, banned for 20 years
* Khatami calls economic plan "great step forward"
* Iran Jewish deputy urges speedy trial for Jews
* Talks at standstill with Iran kidnappers
* Khatami urges security for foreign tourists
* Drug hauls surge 43 percent in five months
* Pakistan minister in Iran for drugs fight talks
* 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
* 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"
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Friday
August 27, 1999
* CEP Nominates 23-Member Central Council
August 26, TEHRAN (Tehran Times) -- The centrist Construction of Executive
Party (CEP) yesterday announced a 23-member Central Council amid objection
from its allies who said that there should have been an election and not
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* Iran will respect legal rights of accused spies
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran will respect the legal rights
of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel and the United States,
the foreign minister said Thursday ... FULL
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* More than one million Iranians live in land of ``Great Satan''
Teheran (dpa) - There are 1.2 million Iranians living in the United
States, the political arch-enemy of Iran for the last two decades and locally
branded as the ``Great Satan'', a Teheran daily reported Thursday ...
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* Iranian leaders warn of new "plots"
TEHRAN, Aug 27 (AFP) - Iranian Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lari
warned Friday of "new plots" against the government of President
Mohammad Khatami aimed at showing its economic policy was a failure ...
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* Green group in drive to clean Caspian beaches
BANDAR ANZALI, IRAN, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian volunteers
combed the picturesque beaches of the Caspian Sea on Friday in the first
major cleanup launched by Iran's environmentalist Green Front ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
August 26, 1999
* New police chief appointed
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (AFP) - The head of Iran's police force, General Hedayat
Lotfian, officially appointed Wednesday a replacement for the commander
of Tehran's metropolitan police force, sacked for his role in last month's
bloody riots. General Mohsen Ansari, 50, until now deputy chief of the
national police force, took over from General Farhad Nazari, who was slated
for "incompetence" in handling the unrest ... FULL
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* Cleric: Rushdie wasn't to be killed
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
did not really intend to have Salman Rushdie killed when he condemned the
British author to death for blaspheming Islam, a moderate Iranian cleric
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* MKO leader still banned from UK
London, aug. 25, IRNA - leader of the front group of the mko terrorist
organisation will be prevented from attending a conference in london next
month, the british foreign office said wednesday ... FULL
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* Khatami vows to shake up bureaucracy
TEHRAN, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami pledged
on Thursday to shake up the country's ``sedate'' bureaucracy as part of
reforms to revive the flagging economy. ... FULL
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Wednesday
August 25, 1999
* Tehran police chief sacked over student raid
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Iran has sacked Tehran's police chief, blamed
for a police attack on student dormitories that provoked some of the worst
unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution. State television said Brigadier-General
Mohsen Ansari was introduced at a ceremony on Wednesday as the new head
of the capital's police, replacing Brigadier-General Farhad Nazari ...
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* Khamenei gives unprecedented support to Khatami
August 24, 1999 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader
gave unprecedented support to President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday, saying
he was capable of handling all aspects of government ... FULL
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* Iran paper calls for live TV debates before elections
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper on Wednesday urged state
television to broadcast live debates between leading scholars to help voters
make better choices in next spring's key parliamentary elections ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran, Pakistan agree to combat drug smuggling
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Iran and Pakistan signed an agreement on
Wednesday to boost cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking, Iran's
state television reported ... FULL
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* Egypt diplomat says killer street, not Israel, blocking ties with
Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (AFP) - Egypt's top diplomat in Iran said Tehran's decision
to name a street after the assassin of president Anwar Sadat was one of
the chief obstacles to restoring full diplomatic ties, papers said Wednesday
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* Iran culture minister defends dancing, banned for 20 years
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (AFP) - Iran's culture minister said dancing, banned
here since the 1979 Islamic revolution, was one of mankind's most elevated
arts and should not necessarily be taboo, the official IRNA news agency
said Sunday ... FULL
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Tuesday
August 24, 1999
* Khatami calls economic plan "great step forward"
TEHRAN, Aug 24 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami defended his
new five-year economic plan on Tuesday as a leap forward for the Islamic
republic's hobbling oil-dependent econcomy. "We need a profound change
to reform and strengthen our economic infrasturcture," Khatami said
as Iran kicked off its annual "Government Week" to evaluate the
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* Iran Jewish deputy urges speedy trial for Jews
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A Jewish member of Iran's parliament has
called on authorities to speed up the trial of 13 Jews charged with spying
for Israel, a newspaper said on Sunday ... FULL
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* Talks at standstill with Iran kidnappers to release tourists: report
TEHRAN, Aug 24 (AFP) - Iranian kidnappers holding four Western tourists
and their guide hostage have allowed one of their ailing captives to get
medicine but talks to free the five men are at a standstill, newspapers
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* Khatami urges security for foreign tourists
TEHRAN, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has called
on security forces to increase protection for foreign tourists after four
Europeans were kidnapped and other visitors harassed, state radio reported
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* Drug hauls surge 43 percent in five months
TEHRAN, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Drug seizures in Iran, a key smuggling route,
have jumped 43 percent to 80 tonnes since March, the Iranian news agency
IRNA said on Wednesday ... FULL
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* Pakistan minister in Iran for drugs fight talks
TEHRAN, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan's Interior Minister Shujaat Hussain
arrived in Iran on Monday for talks on the two neighbours' fight against
drug smuggling, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
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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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