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* Stern rebuke for Iran's liberals
* Iran leader vows faith in Khomeini 10 years after death
* Iran divided over Khomeini's legacy 10 years after death
* Iran counts on its cultural heritage to change image
* Mubarak calls for better ties with Iran and Sudan
* Iran and Iraq to swap war dead
* Iran denies helping Kurds
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* Khatami Islam must serve the people,not
the state
* Iranian official calls for end to press crackdown
* Iran to mark 10th anniversary of Khomeini's death
* Khatami urges resolve to improve ``ill'' economy
* Interior minister appoints alviri as Tehran mayor
* Tehran welcomes remarks by Saudi crown prince
* The unfinished shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini
* UAE calls on Iran to settle island dispute
* Saudi Prince says Iran has right to arm itself
* Iran speaker says may change street name for Egypt
* Iranian activists detained in Iraqi Kurds
* Iran, Norway to swap ambassadors
* Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure
* Mohammadi freed, but aide arrested
* Conservative speaker re-elected
* Political tug-of-war continues over election of new Tehran
mayor
* Rial slide accelerates, loses 3.5 pct vs dollar
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Friday
June 4, 1999
* Stern rebuke for Iran's liberals on 10th anniversary of Khomeini's
death
TEHRAN, June 4 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader delivered a stern rebuke
to liberal reformers within the Islamic regime Friday in a keynote speech
marking the 10th anniversary of the death of the regime's founder, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini. "We don't need any lessons about freedom from political
upstarts," Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the hundreds
of thousands of Iranians gathered for the centrepiece anniversary rally
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* Iran leader vows faith in Khomeini 10 years after death
TEHRAN, June 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to
the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Friday to mark the 10th
anniversary of his death as his successor vowed to remain faithful to Khomeini's
legacy. ``The monument built by the imam (Khomeini) is as strong as ever
and has deep roots,'' supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech
before leading Friday prayers at the shrine ... FULL
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* Iran divided over Khomeini's legacy 10 years after death
TEHRAN, June 3 (AFP) - Iran celebrates the 10th anniversary of the
death of the Islamic Republic's founding father Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
on Friday amid deep divisions over his legacy. Khomeini's disciples are
anxious that the event should serve as a sign of the durability of the
Islamic Revolution under the leadership of the Shiite Moslem clergy 20
years after the overthrow of the pro-western shah ... FULL
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* Iran counts on its cultural heritage to change image
ESFAHAN, Iran, June 3 (AFP) - Dorothea, a 69-year-old German, stands
mesmerized before the blue dome of the "King's mosque" in Esfahan.
Ten years after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of
the Iranian revolution, Iran is counting on Dorothea Aschever and thousands
like her to change the country's image abroad ... FULL
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* Mubarak calls for better ties with Iran and Sudan
June 4 (MENA) - On Egyptian- Iranian ties, President Mubarak said: "As
far as we are concerned, there are no problems in Egyptian- Iranian ties,
but there are certain outstanding issues that are known to the Iranians.
I wish to have very good ties with Iran , but at the proper time, for I
have my own calculations in this respect." ... FULL
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* Iran and Iraq to swap war dead
BAGHDAD, June 3 (AFP) - Iran and Iraq will exchange next Tuesday the
remains of more of their soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 war, an Iraqi
weekly newspaper reported Thursday. The handover will take place at
the Shalameja border post near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, said
Al-Zawra, organ of the journalists' union which is run by President Saddam
Hussein's eldest son Uday ... FULL
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* Iran denies helping Kurds
TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - Tehran Wednesday denied allegations made during
the trial of the Turkish Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan that his Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) has camps on Iranian soil. Foreign ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by the official IRNA news agency, described the
claims as "baseless" ... FULL
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Thursday
June 3, 1999
* Khatami Islam must serve the people,not the state
TEHRAN, June 3 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami called
on Thursday for the speeding up of his social and political reforms and
pledged to construct an Islamic system at the service of the people. In
a speech to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the president said the people had to be allowed
to shape their own destiny, rather than blindly serve the state ... FULL TEXT
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* Iranian official calls for end to press crackdown
TEHRAN, June 3 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian culture ministry official
has appealed for an end to harassment of the liberal press by the conservative-led
judiciary after a spate of arrests of newspaper directors, newspapers reported
on Thursday. ``I formally protest the mistreatment of the press corps.
Currently, journalists do not feel safe,'' newspapers quoted the Deputy
Culture Minister on press affairs, Shaban Shahidi-Moaddab, as saying ...
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* Iran to mark 10th anniversary of Khomeini's death
TEHRAN, June 3 (Reuters) - Iran marks the 10th anniversary of the death
of late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Friday with
rival factions claiming his political legacy. As the gap between reformers
and religious conservatives widens, admiration for Khomeini is one of the
few sentiments they share, though each group highlights aspects of Khomeini's
thoughts that fit best with their own political vision ... FULL
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* Khatami urges resolve to improve ``ill'' economy
TEHRAN, June 2 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called
on Wednesday for national resolve to tackle his country's ``ill'' economy,
as officials appeared confused and divided over policy direction. ``We
have to accept the fact that our economy is ill,'' Khatami said in a speech
before inaugurating an exports promotion centre. ``Our economy needs a
serious and fundamental restructuring. We need national resolve to boost
exports,'' he declared ... FULL
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Wednesday
June 2, 1999
* Interior minister appoints alviri as mayor of tehran
tehran, june 2, irna -- interior minister abdolvahed mousavi lari here
on wednesday confirmed morteza alviri's credential as tehran's mayor. per
note third of the article 71 of the councils' law, mayors are appointed
for cities with more than 200,000 population and for capital of provinces
on the proposal of city council and on an order by interior minister and
for other cities on the proposal of the city council and governor general's
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* Tehran welcomes remarks by Saudi crown prince
TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - Iran welcomed as "positive" on Wednesday
remarks by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz on relations between
the kingdom and the Islamic Republic. "The positive remarks by Prince
Abdullah regarding relations between our two countries reflect the prevailing
atmosphere of realism and transparency in our ties," the official
IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi as saying ... FULL TEXT
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* The unfinished shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini
TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - The shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, destined
to become one of the world's greatest centres of pilgrimage for Shiite
Moslems, remains unfinished a decade after the death of Iran's "supreme
leader."... Ceremonies will be held at the site, 13 kilometers (eight
miles) south of Tehran on the road leading to the holy city of Qom, for
the 10th anniversary of Khomeini's death on June 4, 1989, at the age of
89 ... FULL
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* UAE calls on Iran to settle island dispute
ABU DHABI, June 1 (AFP) - The United Arab Emirates called on Iran Tuesday
to move to settle the dispute between them over three Gulf islands claimed
by both, the official WAM news agency reported ... FULL
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Tuesday
June 1, 1999
* Saudi Prince says Iran has right to arm itself
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah defended Iran's
right to arm itself for self protection and said progress in relations
between his country and the Islamic republic was for the benefit the Gulf
region... In a rare such defense of Iran, the crown prince said: ''Iran
has every right to develop its defense capabilities for its security without
harming others, We also do the same.'' ... FULL
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* Iran speaker says may change street name for Egypt
TEHRAN, June 1 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament speaker said on Tuesday
that Iranian deputies were ready to consider renaming a Tehran street called
after the assassin of an Egyptian president, if the move helped improve
ties with Egypt. ``Changing the name, in principle, could be considered,''
Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri said when asked if Iran would change the name of
the road called Khaled Islambouli, an Islamist who assassinated Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat in 1981 ... FULL
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* Iranian activists detained in Iraqi Kurds
New York, June 1, 1999 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees)
- On May 30, 1999 Habibollah Abdullahi, the International Federation of
Iranian Refugees (IFIR) Erbil branch representative, and Abdullah Veissi,
a member of that branch's Executive Committee, were arrested by the Kurdish
Democratic Party (KDP) of Iraq ... FULL
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* Iran, Norway to swap ambassadors
TEHRAN, June 1 (Reuters) - Iran and Norway have upgraded their diplomatic
ties to ambassadorial level after years of tension over the Salman Rushdie
affair, a source at the Norwegian embassy said on Tuesday. The source told
Reuters that Svein Aass, currently number two at the Norwegian mission
at the United Nations, would take up the post in Tehran at the end of summer
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Monday
May 31, 1999
* Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure
TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - The brief detention of the head of Iran's official
news agency was portrayed in the Iranian press Sunday as the latest twist
in a campaign of pressure by conservatives against reformist media, less
than a year away from parliamentary elections ... FULL
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* Mohammadi freed, but aide arrested
PARIS 30TH MAY (Iran Press Service) In a new, but tactical retreat,
the ruling conservatives freed Sunday Mr. Manouchehr Mohammadi, the secretary-general
of the secular Association of Iranian Nationalist Students (AINS) but arrested
his comrade-in-arms, Mr. Qolamreza Mohajerinezhad, according to reliable
information received from Tehran ... FULL
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* Conservative speaker re-elected
TEHRAN, Iran, May 30 (UPI) -- Iran's 270-seat parliament has overwhelmingly
re-elected its conservative speaker, Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri, to another
one-year term, signaling a further decline in the legislative power of
the supporters of Iran's reformist president, Mohammad Khatami ... FULL TEXT
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* Political tug-of-war continues over election of new Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - Tehran's 15-member municipal council on Sunday
continued its tug-of-war over the choice of a new mayor for the Iranian
capital, although officially the issue was not on the day's agenda. "We
have continued our discussions with Behzad Nabavi," spokeswoman of
the city council Sadiqeh Vasmaqi said ... FULL
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* Rial slide accelerates, loses 3.5 pct vs dollar
TEHRAN, May 30 (Reuters) - The downward slide in the Iranian rial gathered
pace this weekend, and on Sunday it had lost 3.5 percent against the dollar
compared with late last week, traders said. On Tehran's illegal but active
black market, the dollar was trading at 8,700 rials, compared with about
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