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* Iran's supreme leader denies political
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* Iran students say 19 "seriously wounded" in
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* Iran MPs denounce intelligence ministry
* Former queen says Khatami should learn from shah
* 37 now dead in "flood of the millennium"
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* Two radical Ansar leaders arrested
in Tehran
* Khatami says hardliners helped fuel Iran unrest
* Ban on import of instruments lifted
* Turkey denies it will pay Iran for raid
* Riots leave Khatami facing bitter political struggle
* Students distance themselves from protesters
* Iran students file libel charges against dailies
* Iran seen shunning U.S. wheat for now
* Germany confirms arrest of Iranian espionage suspect
* Turkey seek more Iranian help against rebels
* Khatami says no turning back on justice
* Khatami's brother rejects talk of coup
* Iran leader meets with students
* Iran takes second place in physics olympiad
* Turkish generals say bombed north Iraq, not Iran
* 27 dead, 20 still missing after flood
* U.S. sets food sale rules for Iran
* Clerics court convicts reformist publisher
* Nationalist opposition leaders arrested
* Students place hopes in general election
* Turkey says diplomacy will solve Iran row
* Official says Iran unlikely to buy U.S. grain
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Friday
July 30, 1999
* Iran's supreme leader denies political split
TEHRAN, July 30 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Friday dismissed reports of a political rift with President Mohammad
Khatami over the pro-democracy protests earlier this month that ended in
bloodshed. He said the reformist president had his full support and blamed
the six days of unrest, the worst since the 1979 Islamic revolution, on
a US campaign of propaganda and espionage aimed at undermining the Islamic
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* Iran students say 19 "seriously wounded" in unrest: paper
TEHRAN, July 29 (AFP) - Iranian students said 19 people were "seriously
wounded" in the police attack on a Tehran university dormitory that
sparked six days of bloody riots in the capital, reports said Thursday.
The students have demanded a formal investigation into their injuries by
police pathologists, the moderate Etelaat paper said ... FULL
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* Iran MPs denounce intelligence ministry
TEHRAN, July 29 (AFP) - Iranian MPs condemned the intelligence ministry
Thursday for its "unconstitutional" treatment of those arrested
over the Tehran riots amid a tough propaganda campaign against pro-democracy
activists. "The ministry's statements about the university protests
and the events that followed are obviously unconstitutional and violate
the rights of those arrested," current and former MPs said in a letter
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* Former queen says Khatami should learn from shah's mistakes
July 30, 1999, CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Iran 's former empress has advice
for the troubled Iranian president, drawn from lessons learned after her
late husband was toppled by Islamic revolutionaries 20 years ago. "There
is no real reform without broad political participation," says Farah
Pahlavi, widow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ... FULL
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* 37 now dead in "flood of the millennium"
TEHRAN, July 28 (AFP) - Iranian officials on Thursday upped the death
toll to 37 with 14 still missing after catastrophic floods in northern
Iran along the Caspian Sea earlier this week, the official IRNA news agency
said. Rescue workers are battling against time to find the remaining missing
from Monday's flood, which has left more than 100 people injured ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
July 29, 1999
* Two radical Ansar leaders arrested in Tehran
July 29, Teheran (dpa) - Two leaders of the Iranian radical Islamic
group known as Ansar Hezbollah (followers of the party of God) were arrested
in Teheran, the governmental daily Iran reported Thursday. Massoud Dehnamaki,
known as the leader of the Ansar Hezbollah, and his close aide, Soheyl
Karimi, were arrested at the office of their weekly magazine Jebheh (War
Front), the daily said ... FULL
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* Khatami says hardline brand of Islam helped fuel Iran unrest
TEHRAN, July 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami lashed out
at Islamic hardliners in remarks published Thursday, saying their dogmatic
brand of Islam was largely to blame for the bloody Tehran riots. "Should
we carry out aggression against those who don't agree with us? Should we
beat people up brutally because they don't see things our way?" Khatami
said in a remarkable attack on the nation's hardline faithful ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran reconciles with music, ban on import of instruments lifted
July 28, 199 Teheran (dpa) - Islamic Iran has lifted a ban on importing
musical instruments which has been in place for more than two decades,
the daily Economic Abrar reported Wednesday. In an official circular to
the customs office, the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance declared
the import of instruments, including those from the West, as free, the
daily reported ... FULL
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* Turkey denies it will pay Iran for raid
ANKARA, July 29 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on
Thursday denied Iranian reports that Turkey would pay compensation to Iran
over an alleged cross-border air raid. Iran, for its part, insisted the
raid sites were on its territory and said it was likely that two Turkish
soldiers detained for allegedly crossing the border would be prosecuted
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Wednesday
July 28, 1999
* Riots leave Khatami facing bitter political struggle
TEHRAN, July 28 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami has tried to smooth
over Iran's power struggle as an "illusion" but conservatives
are stepping up the attack on his reform agenda two weeks after bloody
riots shook the nation. The embattled president, who kept a very low profile
after the unrest, emerged Tuesday with pledges of justice and harmony just
days after security forces and hardliners violently crushed pro-reform
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* Students distance themselves from protesters
July 28, 1999 (he Wall Street Journal Europe) - TEHRAN, Iran -- Security
officials in Iran are using recent student riots to crack down on dissidents
opposed to the country's Islamic regime, and they are getting little protest
from student groups that favor more limited reforms. Mainstream student
activists, instead of planning new demonstrations, are trying to distance
themselves from protesters who called for the resignation of Iran 's supreme
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* Iran students file libel charges against dailies
TEHRAN, July 28 (Reuters) - An Iranian umbrella student organisation
with 50,000 members has filed suit in a criminal case against three hardline
dailies, a newspaper said on Wednesday. The Office to Consolidate Unity,
which led widespread pro-democracy student protests amid attacks by police
and hardline vigilantes this month, has accused Kayhan, Resalat and Abrar
newspapers of libel, the daily Iran said ...
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* Iran seen shunning U.S. wheat for now
PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - Tension between moderates and conservatives
in Tehran and ongoing hostility toward the United States is likely to keep
Iran from buying U.S. wheat for now, European banking sources and grain
traders said this week. They said Iran would continue buying from Europe
and Australia for the time being, despite Washington's issuance of rules
allowing U.S. firms to resume food and medicine sales to the Middle East
state and despite a devastating drought that has nearly doubled Iran's
estimated wheat import needs ... FULL
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* Germany confirms arrest of Iranian espionage suspect
Berlin (dpa) - Police in Berlin have arrested an Iranian national suspected
of espionage, the federal prosecutor's office confirmed Tuesday. The man
aged 36 is believed to have tried to spy on Iranian opposition figures
in Germany, said spokeswoman Eva Schuebel confirming reports by the news
magazine Der Spiegel and by the Iranian opposition. The suspect was detained
on July 14 ... FULL
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* Turkey seek more Iranian help against rebels
ANKARA, July 28 (Reuters) - Turkey on Wednesday urged Iran to cooperate
with it against Kurdish separatist rebels who Turkey says operate from
Iranian territory. Ties between the two neighbours have been tense since
last week when Tehran accused Ankara of launching an air attack on its
soil, killing five Iranians. Turkey denies hitting Iran and says its jets
were bombing the rebels in nearby northern Iraq ... FULL
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Tuesday
July 27, 1999
* Khatami says no turning back on justice
HAMADAN, Iran, July 27 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami, his reformist
policies under attack by hardliners after some of the worst unrest since
the 1979 Islamic revolution, pledged on Tuesday to stand by his election
promise to protect civil liberties. Khatami kicked off a three-day tour
of the western province of Hamadan with an address to a capacity crowd
in the local sports stadium, his first public appearance since pro-democracy
student protests on July 8-13 ... FULL
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* Khatami's brother rejects talk of coup
TEHRAN, July 26 (Reuters) - Fears at home and abroad of a possible coup
against reformist President Mohammad Khatami are unjustified but a broad
attempt to undermine his political and social reform programme remains
a serious threat, his brother and political confidant said on Monday. Reza
Khatami, who heads his brother's political faction, said recent unrest
was part of an orchestrated effort by Iran's conservatives to drive the
president from office that began with his 1997 election landslide and will
continue through parliamentary polls next February ... FULL
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* Iran leader meets with students
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei met Tuesday with about 30 students who were injured in the
recent protests in Iran, Iranian television reported. The broadcast, monitored
in Dubai, showed Khamenei embracing and kissing the students, some of whom
had bandages covering their eyes and heads ... FULL
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* Iran takes second place in physics olympiad
Tehran, (Iran Daily) - Iranian students grabbed five gold medals in
the international physics olympiad. The Russian team took first place,
followed by Iran and the U.S. ... FULL
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* Turkish generals say bombed north Iraq, not Iran
ANKARA, July 27 (Reuters) - The chief of Turkey's air force was quoted
on Tuesday as saying Turkish warplanes had killed Iranian officers who
were training Kurdish rebels in a camp in northern Iraq ... FULL
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* 27 dead, 20 still missing after flood
TEHRAN, July 27 (AFP) - Iranian officials said late Tuesday that 20
people are still missing after confirming three more people died in a flood
along the Caspian Sea, bringing the death toll to 27. Rescue teams are
continuing the search for victims of Monday's deluge, which has left another
95 people in hospital, the official IRNA news agency said ... FULL TEXT
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* U.S. sets food sale rules for Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. farmers will be able to compete for an estimated
$2 billion in grain sales to Iran, Libya and Sudan under long-awaited new
rules that will become effective Tuesday, Clinton administration officials
said Monday. The new regulations put into place a policy change announced
by the Clinton administration on April 28 to exempt sales of food, medicine
and medical equipment from U.S. economic sanctions ... FULL
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Monday
July 26, 1999
* Clerics court convicts reformist publisher
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's special clerical court Sunday found the publisher
of the leading pro-reform newspaper Salam guilty of printing classified
material and defamation, the official IRNA news agency said, raising the
prospects the influential daily will be silenced for good. The agency said
Mohammad Mousavi-Khoeiniha, a powerful leftist cleric, had also been found
guilty of publishing insulting language and misleading the public ... FULL TEXT
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* Nationalist opposition leaders arrested
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's secret service said it had arrested the leaders
of a nationalist opposition movement in connection with recent social unrest
in Tehran. The Intelligence Ministry said in a communique published in
newspapers Monday that three senior members of the small Iran Nation Party
(INP) had been in custody since the outbreak of street riots in Tehran
in mid-July, following pro-democracy demonstrations. It identified the
three as Khosrow Seif, Bahram Namazi and Farzin Mokhber. Another activist
of the movement, Mehran Abdolbaqi, is also in detention, the ministry said
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* Students place hopes in general election
TEHRAN, July 25 (Reuters) - Iran's pro-democracy students, whose campaign
suffered a setback during recent street riots in Tehran, said on Sunday
they expected February's parliamentary elections to deliver a blow to hardliners
opposed to reforms ... FULL
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* Turkey says diplomacy will solve Iran row
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July 26 (Reuters) - Turkey's president and prime
minister on Monday both played down a row with Iran, stressing their will
for good neighbourly relations with Tehran. The two sides have exchanged
increasingly angry words in the past week. Iran said Turkish warplanes
and soldiers had violated its border in two separate incidents, and demanded
an apology ... FULL
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* Official says Iran unlikely to buy U.S. grain
TEHRAN, July 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian trade official said in remarks
published on Monday that Iran was unlikely to buy grain from the United
States and would purchase U.S. goods only if Washington allows imports
of Iranian products. ``We have have never given serious consideration to
buying grain from America, as prices are generally falling in world markets
and we do not need to buy goods from America,'' newspapers quoted Deputy
Trade Minister Masoud Karbasian as saying ... FULL
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