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* Former president Rafsanjani to run
for parliament
* Relatives of bombing victims demonstrate in Tehran
* Pakistani military ruler meets Iran's Khatami
* Iran & Pakistan to "coordinate" their policies
towards Afghanistan
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* General Musharraf of Pakistan arrives
in Iran
* Iran to start using sniffer dogs in war against drugs
* Pro-reform newspaper (Salam)
* Nuri to appeal jail sentence
* Staff of banned Khordad vow to publish new paper
* Abdollah Nouri still has 10 days to appeal
* CIA Wanted Master of Disguise to Create Fake Shah
* Albright Seeks Saudis' Help on Mideast, Iran
* Speaker accuses liberals of "infiltrating" universities
* Iran police in drug shootouts, Pakistani killed
* 1200 commemorate anniversary of authors' murders
* Former Tehran police chief and 19 others face trial
* Dissident's Imprisonment Widens Political Gap in Iran
* Iran protests to U.S. about treatment of its clerics
* Clerics boycott U.S. meeting in protest
* Janati accuses Washington of serial killings in Iran
* Navy chief: US forces in Gulf threaten Iran
* Pakistan military ruler to visit Bahrain, Iran
* Iran said to reassure Afghan opposition of support
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Thursday
December 9, 1999
* Former president Rafsanjani to run for parliament
TEHRAN, Dec 9 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani said Thursday he intended to run for parliament as an independent
in the February elections. In an exclusive interview published in the
centrist daily Entekhob, Rafsanjani, 65, said he had yielded to pressure
from clerics, ministers, members of parliament, aides and ordinary people
to make a political comeback ... FULL
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* Relatives of bombing victims demonstrate in Tehran
TEHRAN, Dec 9 (AFP) - Some 40 relatives of victims of a recent bomb
attack in southwest Iran blamed on the outlawed opposition People's Mujahedeen
staged a protest demonstration in Tehran Thursday. The protestors gathered
before the German embassy, calling on German officials to prevent the Mujahedeen
from further activities and demanded their expulsion from that country
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* Pakistani military ruler meets Iran's Khatami
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Visiting Pakistani military leader General
Pervez Musharraf met Iran's President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday for
talks on relations soured over rivalries in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Musharraf said on arrival that Afghanistan, where Tehran and Islamabad
back opposing sides, would be the ``main issue'' in his talks with Iranian
officials, Iran's news agency IRNA said ... FULL
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* Iran & Pakistan to "coordinate" their policies towards
Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Dec 9 (AFP) - Iran and Pakistan will "coordinate"
their policies on Afghanistan, where they support opposing sides, to establish
peace in their joint neighbour, Pakistani military ruler General Pervez
Musharraf said here Thursday. "On Afghanistan, we agreed to coordinate
the policies of our two countries for encouraging the peace process through
reconciliation and dialogue among the Afghan parties," Musharraf said
in a statement faxed to the AFP bureau in Tehran ... FULL
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Wednesday
December 8, 1999
* Pro-reform newspaper (Salam) which triggered riots back under new
title
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Staff members of the leading pro-reform Salam
daily, whose closure in July sparked six days of unprecedented student
riots in Tehran, brought a new reformist newspaper to the newsstands Wednesday
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* Nuri to appeal jail sentence "in order to be parliamentary
candidate"
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Jailed reformist Abdollah Nuri will appeal against
his five-year sentence for spreading "anti-Islamic propaganda,"
to give him a chance of running in the February elections, his lawyer said
Wednesday ... FULL
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* General Musharraf of Pakistan arrives in Iran
Dec 8, 1999 (BBC) -- Pakistan's military ruler General Parvez Musharraf
is expected to hold talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami during
a two-day official visit. The talks come against a backdrop of differences
over several issues including Afghanistan, killings of Iranians in Pakistan
and drug smuggling ... FULL
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* Iran to start using sniffer dogs in war against drugs
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Iran will begin using sniffer dogs, considered
"impure" animals in Islamic tradition, in its high profile war
against drugs, the government-run Iran paper reported Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
December 7, 1999
* Staff of banned Khordad vow to publish new paper
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - Staff of the leading Iranian daily Khordad Tuesday
thumbed their nose at a ban issued by a hardline clerical court late last
month by vowing to bring a new reformist title to the newsstands. Some
100 staff gathered at the paper's offices in Tehran to defy the Special
Court for Clergy's (SCC) order for the closure of the paper ... FULL TEXT
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* Abdollah Nouri still has 10 days to appeal jail sentence
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - Leading Iranian reformer Abdollah Nuri still has
10 days to appeal a five-year jail sentence handed down by a clerical court
last month, the Tehran press reported Tuesday. Any appeal will first have
to be examined for its "validity," newspapers quoted the head
of the Special Court for Clergy (SCC), Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, as telling
a meeting of law students ... FULL
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* CIA Wanted Master of Disguise to Create Fake Shah
Dec 6, 1999, WASHINGTON (APBnews.com) -- The CIA and President Jimmy
Carter turned to him the first week of November 1979 as Carter faced the
crisis that eventually ended his presidency. Sixty-six Americans from the
U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, had been taken hostage, and six others were
hiding at the nearby Embassy of Canada ... The CIA wanted Mendez to carry
out a daring plan to diffuse the situation: create a fake shah -- a body-double
-- to be spirited out of the U.S. to Egypt, where authorities would announce
he had died from illness ... FULL
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* Albright Seeks Saudis' Help on Mideast, Iran
RIYADH (Reuters) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, kicking off
a four-day Middle East tour, sought the support of Saudi Arabia in easing
the path to Arab-Israeli peace. She met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah
on Monday and thanked them for helping Palestinians prepare for peace but
also expressed concern about Iran's alleged support for opponents of the
peace process, her spokesman James Rubin told reporters at a briefing ...
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* Parliament speaker accuses liberals of "infiltrating"
into universities
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - Iran's conservative parliament speaker on Tuesday
charged that the country's liberals and nationalists are seeking to infiltrate
the universities, the official IRNA news agency reported. "For the
first time in the history of Iran's universities, we can hear whispers
in defence of the United States," said Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, the leader
of Iranian conservatives ...
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* Iran police in drug shootouts, Pakistani killed
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Security forces shot dead a Pakistani citizen
and wounded another man in two shootouts with drug traffickers in southeastern
Iran, state television said on Tuesday. The Pakistani was killed in Sistan-Baluchestan
province which borders Pakistan, the report quoted the state drug agency
as saying, adding that the security forces seized night-vision binoculars,
morphine and opium ... FULL
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Monday
December 6, 1999
* 1200 people commemorate the anniversary of authors' murders
TEHRAN, Dec 6 (AFP) - Some 1200 Iranians gathered in a mosque here Monday
in memory of two authors slain last year during a string of murders of
leading intellectual dissidents that authorities blamed on rogue members
of the secret police. They assembled in the Fakhr-Abad mosque to mark the
anniversary of the deaths of Mohammad Mokhtari and Jafar Puyandeh, whose
murders followed those of secular opposition leader Daryush Foruhar and
his wife Parveneh ... FULL
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* Former Tehran police chief and 19 others face trial over July unrest:
radio
TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - Tehran' former police chief Farhad Nazari and
19 other officers and men will be court-martialled soon for their role
in the repression of last July's student demonstrations, state radio said
Monday. Heavy-handed police intervention against the demonstrations at
Tehran university which followed the banning of a pro-reform newspaper
sparked off the worst rioting in Iran for 20 year ... FULL
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* Dissident's Imprisonment Widens Political Gap in Iran
December 6, 1999, (The New York Times) -- Student protests against the
sentence continued Sunday, and Abdullah Nouri, the high-ranking cleric
who was jailed on heresy charges, sent a message from prison that he was
holding firm to his refusal to appeal, as a matter of principle. At the
same time, word came from the clerical court that condemned him that it
was considering new prosecutions of Nouri's associates on a reformist Tehran
newspaper ... FULL
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* Iran protests to United States about treatment of its clerics
December 6, 1999, (The Guardian) -- A party of senior Iranian theologians
has withdrawn from a conference in Washington in protest at their treatment
by US immigration officials. The decision by the authorities at JFK airport
in New York to take fingerprints and photographs of the mullahs at the
weekend has caused outrage in Iran and has highlighted the difficulties
in improving the Islamic republic's relations with the United States ...
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Friday
December 3, 1999
* Clerics boycott U.S. meeting in protest
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A delegation of Iranian clerics has withdrawn from
a seminar in Washington in protest at their treatment by U.S. immigration
authorities, Iranian officials and conference organizers said Friday. The
scholars from the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom were to take part in
a seminar on Islam and secularism -- part of the people-to-people exchanges
encouraged by both U.S. and Iranian officials as a way to warm long-strained
relations ... FULL
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* Janati accuses Washington of serial killings in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - Conservative Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati
accused the United States Friday of being behind a series of murders of
intellectuals and opposition politicians in Iran a year ago ... FULL TEXT
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* Navy chief: US forces in Gulf threaten Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - US forces stationed in the Gulf are a threat and
a challenge to Iran, the head of the Iranian navy, Rear-Admiral Abbas Mohtaj,
said Friday. "The unjustified presence of American forces in the region
only increase tension and insecurity", he said, speaking at the Friday
prayer in Tehran on Iran's Navy Day ... FULL
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* Pakistan military ruler to visit Bahrain, Iran
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Pakistani military ruler General Pervez
Musharraf will visit Bahrain and Iran next week in his third trip to fellow
Islamic states after seizing power in October, Foreign Ministry sources
said on Friday. They said Musharraf would leave for Bahrain on December
8 and would go on to Tehran the same evening after talks with Bahraini
Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa ... FULL
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* Iran said to reassure Afghan opposition of support
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Iran promised on Thursday to continue diplomatic
support for the Afghan opposition even though it has abandoned its trade
blockade on the ruling Taleban, an opposition spokesman said. ``They clarified
their stance, reassuring us that Iran still recognises us as the legitimate
government,'' spokesman Dr Abdullah told Reuters by satellite telephone
from opposition-held northeast Afghanistan. ``Its position has not changed
since the reopening of its border with the Taleban.'' ... FULL
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