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July 6-9, 1999 / Tir 15-18, 1378
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* Iran ministry drops charges against
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* Rafiqdust to quit as head of Foundation for the Oppressed
* Leading Iranian dissident dies
* Britain says Iranian government reforming itself
* Israel denies holding Iranians
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* Salam daily banned as conservatives
move to curb press
* Iranian Jew held for spying is well, mother says
* Iran wants UAE talks, not mediation, on island row
* Saudi defence minister in UAE after Iran row
* Canada nuclear fusion reactor might go to Iran
* Scandal rocks secret service
* Reformist press accuses MPs of preparing clampdown
* Iran passes $400 mln aid to drought-hit farmers
* Iran revives case of missing diplomats,17 years on
* Jackson seeks Iran visit to press for Jews release
* Iran to hold crucial parliamentary elections in February
* Diplomat tells how hostages were freed in Lebanon
* Gulf Arabs back UAE in islands row with Iran
* Saudi King Fahd confident of better ties with Iran
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Friday
July 9, 1999
* Iran ministry drops charges against newspaper
TEHRAN, July 8 (Reuters) - Iran's powerful intelligence ministry on
Thursday withdrew a complaint against a leading moderate newspaper, raising
hopes that the banned daily would be allowed to resume publication. ``The
intelligence ministry withdraws its complaint in line with its firm policy
of non-partisanship...and for the sake of maintaining calm, avoiding tension
and backing the government's policies on political development and legal
press freedom,'' it said in a statement carried by the official news agency
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* Rafiqdust to quit as head of Foundation for the Oppressed
Tehran, 7th July (IRNA - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- The head of the
Foundation for the Oppressed and War-Disabled [Mohsen Rafiqdust] said on
Wednesday [7th July] that he was "ready to leave the post to a younger
and more powerful" person ... FULL
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* Leading Iranian dissident dies
July 8, (BBC) - A leading Iranian dissident, Ayatollah Mehdi Ha'eri-
Yazdi, has died in Tehran at the age of seventy-five. He was an acclaimed
Islamic philosopher, theolgian and author and taught in several foreign
academic institutions, including Oxford University. Mr Ha'eri-Yazdi was
a former student of the late Ayatollah Khomeini but was critical of the
country's clergy which came to power following the Islamic revolution in
1979.
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* Britain says Iranian government reforming itself
WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - Britain believes the Iranian government
can reform itself from within and sees signs it is moving in that direction,
a British minister said on Thursday. Foreign Office junior minister Geoff
Hoon also said he had assurances that Iranian Jews detained on suspicion
of spying will receive family visits and legal representation ...
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* Israel denies holding Iranians
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israel army today denied an Iranian claim that
it has been holding four Iranians since they were kidnapped in Lebanon
in 1982. ``Israel never held and doesn't hold any kidnapped Iranians,''
the army said. ``The Iranian government knows this and is apparently spreading
these lies. This is an attempt by Iran to shirk its responsibility for
the fate of Ron Arad.'' ... FULL
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Thursday
July 8, 1999
* Salam daily banned as conservatives move to curb press
TEHRAN, July 7 (AFP) - Iran's state-run news agency announced the banning
of one of the country's leading reformist newspapers Wednesday just hours
after the country's conservative-dominated parliament approved fresh curbs
on the press. The Persian daily Salam, which is close to the reformist
government of President Mohammad Khatami, was banned on a "verbal
verdict of judicial authorities," the IRNA news agency quoted a "reliable
source" as saying ... FULL
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* Iranian Jew held for spying is well, mother says
TEHRAN, July 7 (Reuters) - The mother of an Iranian Jew accused of spying
for Israel said the authorities were treating her son well and he was receiving
kosher food in detention, Tehran newspapers reported on Wednesday. The
report carried the first details released in Iran on the arrest of 13 Iranian
Jews earlier this year on spying charges ... FULL
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* Iran wants UAE talks, not mediation, on island row
TEHRAN, July 7 (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday rejected mediation by Gulf
Arab states in a dispute with the United Arab Emirates over three Gulf
islands, saying it wanted direct talks with the UAE. ``There is no need
for third country mediation over this issue and we believe that it can
be resolved in good faith,'' Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza
Asefi told a news conference ... FULL
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* Saudi defence minister in UAE after Iran row
ABU DHABI, July 7 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Prince
Sultan met United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan
on Wednesday during the first visit by a top Saudi official since the two
Gulf Arab states ended a row over ties with Iran. The meeting went a long
way to ``deepen the bonds'' between the two allies, UAE Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zaid al-Nahayan told reporters ...
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* Canada nuclear fusion reactor might go to Iran
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's fledgling nuclear fusion reactor program
might be sold lock, stock and barrel to Iran, which U.S. officials have
often accused of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. The director of the
program, physicist Real Decoste, said Wednesday that negotiations were
advanced with Iran on the sale of the experimental reactor and its technology,
since the federal government cut off funding in 1997 ... FULL
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Wednesday
July 7, 1999
* Scandal rocks secret service
TEHRAN, July 6 (Reuters) - The case has all the elements of a classic
spy thriller -- serial murders, a mysterious suicide in the upper ranks
of the intelligence service and a missing body. Iran's widening security
scandal has sent government officials, leading politicians and senior clerics
scurrying for cover and raised doubts about the future of the country's
feared secret service ... FULL
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* Reformist press accuses MPs of preparing clampdown
TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Iran's reformist press expressed "serious
concern" Tuesday as the country's conservative-dominated parliament
prepared to debate legislation tightening up controls on the media. Editors
from a dozen newspapers published a joint statement accusing the bill's
promoters of paving the way for "restrictions on the press, practically
no job security for the country's journalists and preliminary steps for
closure of various press institutions." ... FULL
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* Iran passes $400 mln aid to drought-hit farmers
TEHRAN, July 6 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament on Tuesday approved emergency
funds of up to $400 million to help farmers hit by the worst drought in
30 years, the official news agency IRNA reported. It said deputies passed
a government bill allocating 1.2 trillion rials to help farmers, livestock
owners and tribesmen after the drought, which has inflicted as much as
10 trillion rials in damage ... FULL
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* Iran revives case of missing diplomats,17 years on
TEHRAN, July 6 (Reuters) - Iran has revived the case of its four misssing
diplomats, kidnapped in 1982 in Lebanon, in an apparent attempt to deflect
increasing Western pressure on the issue of 13 Iranian Jews charged with
spying for Israel. The four diplomats were reportedly abducted by pro-Israeli
Christian militia at a checkpoint in the northern outskirts of Beirut when
Israeli forces surrounded the Lebanese capital ... FULL
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* Jackson seeks Iran visit to press for Jews release
July 6, DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson hopes
to visit Iran to appeal to officials for the release of 13 Iranian Jews
arrested on charges of spying for Israel, the London-based daily newspaper
al-Hayat said Tuesday. The Arabic-language paper said Jackson was ``awaiting
an Iranian response to visiting Tehran as part of his efforts'' to gain
the release of the 13, arrested several months ago ... FULL
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Tuesday
July 6, 1999
* Iran to hold crucial parliamentary elections in February
TEHRAN, July 4 (AFP) - Iran announced Sunday that the first round of
parliamentary elections, crucial for the future of moderate President Mohammad
Khatami's reform agenda, will be held on February 18. The Islamic republic's
270-member assembly, or Majlis, is elected every four years by universal
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* Diplomat tells how hostages were freed in Lebanon
LOS ANGELES, July 6(Reuters) - The freeing of nine Western hostages
from Beirut after years of effort in 1991 came at a price few people know
about -- a paragraph in a United Nations report that largely went unread.
Paragraph 6, in a report by then U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de
Cuellar, blamed Iraq for starting the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. A former
U.N. diplomat who risked his life to free the hostages said Iran demanded
it in return for using its influence with a shadowy group who grabbed American
journalist Terry Anderson, British church official Terry Waite and the
others and held them for years under inhumane conditions ... FULL
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* Gulf Arabs back UAE in islands row with Iran
DUBAI, July 3 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab foreign ministers on Saturday pledged
full support for the United Arab Emirates in its territorial dispute with
Iran, urging Tehran to heed calls for a peaceful solution, Gulf news agencies
reported ... FULL
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* Saudi King Fahd confident of better ties with Iran
RIYADH, July 5 (Reuters) - King Fahd said on Monday he was confident
Saudi Arabia and Iran would take further steps to increase trust and achieve
stability in the Gulf region. ``We are tied to Iran by religion and neighbourliness
as well as common interest and we are confident that officials in both
countries will continue the good steps they started based on mutual trust
and respect,'' King Fahd said ... FULL
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