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June 7-June 11, 1999 / Khordad 17-21, 1378
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* Iran warns that Jewish "spies"
risk death
* Jesse Jackson to try to help accused Iranian Jews
* Baghdad accuses Tehran of firing missiles into Iraq, threatens
riposte
* Khatami calls for legalization of opposition groups
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* Scud missiles hit MKO camp in Iraq
* MKO bury dead fighters outside Baghdad
* Iran to try 13 Jews charged with spying for Israel
* Paris concerned by arrest of Jews in Iran
* U.S. encouraged by Saudi-Iran rapprochement-paper
* Thousands of Iranians attend funeral for 600 war dead
* Case of bad blood disrupts Iranian courtroom
* Georgia, Armenia, Iran join in anti-drug battle
* U.S. aide promises simple rules for Iran grain sales
* Truck bomb kills six Iranian opposition fighters in Iraq
* Conversative clampdown on press
* Germany says concerned at arrest of Iranian Jews
* Israel's Barak asks Annan to help free Iran Jews
* Iran's Rafsanjani hails improved Saudi ties
* Trial over HIV-tainted blood opens in Iran
* Iran to hold funeral ceremony for 600 war dead
* Iranian, Vietnam body, share U.N. population award
* Amnesty concerned about Jews arrested in Iran
* Top judge says he is stepping down
* Tehran's mayor wants to attract foreign capital
* Iran court proceedings to start in blood scandal
* Iranians fed up with conservative attitudes: Rafsanjani
daughter
* GCC chief bids to defuse Arab squabble over ties with Iran
* Jailed Tehran mayor bemoans effects of conviction
* Tehran's new mayor vows to fight pollution
* Low oil price hit Iran growth to March 99
* Iran says ready to improve ties with UAE
* Row deepens between Saudi Arabia,UAE over Iran ties
* Release sought for jailed Tehran mayor's farewell
* Iran exile group says Iran attacks Iraq office
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Friday
June 11, 1999
* Iran warns that Jewish "spies" risk death
TEHRAN, June 11 (AFP) - Iran's judicial chief warned Friday that 13
Jews charged with spying for arch-enemy Israel risk execution in a case
that threatens to cloud efforts by moderate President Mohammad Khatami
for detente with the West. "These people are charged with selling
out the rights of 60 million Iranians to the Zionist regime," Yazdi
told the crowds at Tehran University ... FULL
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* Jesse Jackson to try to help accused Iranian Jews
LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Reuters) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who secured
the release of three U.S. soldiers captured in Yugoslavia, indicated on
Friday he might be on the verge of another mission -- to Iran, where 13
Iranian Jews have been imprisoned on espionage charges. Jackson also announced
a private effort to help ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo with airlifts
of medical aid and supplies to refugee camps and to the Yugoslav province,
which is awaiting the return of hundreds of thousands of people ... FULL
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* Baghdad accuses Tehran of firing missiles into Iraq, threatens
riposte
BAGHDAD, June 11 (AFP) - Baghdad on Friday accused Tehran of firing
three long-range missiles into a military base of the Iranian People's
Mujahedeen in Iraq and threatened a riposte. "The Iranian regime carried
out a cowardly attack against Iraq by firing on Thursday at 8:46 p.m. (1646
GMT) three long-range surface-to-surface missiles at one of the bases of
the People's Mujahedeen," a government spokesman told the official
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* Khatami calls for legalization of opposition groups
TEHRAN, June 11 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami
has called for greater tolerance for dissenting views and the legalization
of opposition groups, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday. Differences
of opinion are a "normal phenomenon" and "should be recognized
as a normal and accepted trend," the president told a reformist group
which backs his policies, the Islamic Iran Participation Front ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
June 10, 1999
* Scud missiles hit MKO camp in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 11 (AFP) - Several Scud missiles crashed on Thursday night
into a military base in Iraq of the People's Mujahedeen, the main armed
Iranian opposition group announced. A spokesman for the Mujahedeen said
the Scud-B missiles hit the base, 110 kilometres (65 miles) northeast of
Baghdad, near the border with Iran ... FULL
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* MKO bury dead fighters outside Baghdad
BAGHDAD, June 10 (AFP) - Six Iranian opposition fighters killed along
with an Iraqi civilian in a truck bombing were to be laid to rest Thursday
at a military base of the People's Mujahedeen, the group said. They were
blown up Wednesday on the edge of Baghdad in the deadliest attack on the
group inside Iraq since 1986 which also wounded 21 Mujahedeen combatants
and 15 Iraqi civilians ... FULL
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* Iran to try 13 Jews charged with spying for Israel
TEHRAN, June 10 (AFP) - Iran announced Thursday that 13 Iranian Jews
will be tried on charges of spying for arch-enemy Israel in a case that
has whipped up a storm of condemnation among world political and religious
leaders. Under Islamic law, the 13 could face the death penalty if convicted
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* Paris concerned by arrest of Jews in Iran
PARIS, June 10 (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it was concerned
by Iran's arrest of 13 Jews accused of operating a ``Zionist'' spy network
and said the European Union was preparing to take up the matter with Tehran.
``We are concerned by the arrests which took place in the Jewish community
and worried by the way in which this affair is developing,'' a French Foreign
Ministry statement said ... FULL
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* U.S. encouraged by Saudi-Iran rapprochement-paper
DUBAI, June 10 (Reuters) - The United States views improved ties between
Saudi Arabia and non-Arab Iran as encouraging and hopes the rapprochement
will help ease tensions in the Gulf, a Saudi paper on Thursday quoted a
U.S. official as saying. The comments to the Saudi-owned London-based Asharq
al-Awsat were made in Washington by Bruce Reidel, special assistant to
President Bill Clinton on Near Eastern and South Asian affairs ... FULL
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* Thousands of Iranians attend funeral for 600 war dead
TEHRAN, June 10 (AFP) - Thousands of mothers and other mourners attended
a funeral here Thursday for 600 Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-1988
war with Iraq. The 4,000 mourners gathered at the Islamic Republic founder's
tomb to pay their last respects to the "martyrs" whose remains
were discovered in the Iranian-Iraqi border area 11 years after the war
ended, witnesses said ...FULL
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* Case of bad blood disrupts Iranian courtroom
TEHRAN, June 10 (Reuters) - Court proceedings in Iran's biggest blood
scandal were postponed abruptly after heated exchanges between patients'
families and a former official at the state Blood Transfusion Organisation,
Iranian media reported on Thursday ... FULL
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* Georgia, Armenia, Iran join in anti-drug battle
TBILISI, June 10 (Reuters) - Georgia, Armenia and Iran agreed on Thursday
to conduct joint measures against the spread of drugs in the region, officials
said. ``This problem is acute for the whole region and fighting effectively
against it is possible only through joint efforts,'' Georgian Foreign Affairs
Minister Irakly Menagarishvili said after signing a memorandum of understanding
between the three states ... FULL
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Wednesday
June 9, 1999
* U.S. aide promises simple rules for Iran grain sales
WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - The Clinton administration hopes to issue
rules covering the sale of U.S. food to Iran that are simple for exporters
to use, a top U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday. Stuart
Eizenstat, Undersecretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, said
the new rules should be out by the end of the month. They will be as ``efficient
and nonbureaucratic as possible'' so that a lengthy government approval
process does not block sales, he told the House Agriculture Committee ...
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* Truck bomb kills six Iranian opposition fighters in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 9 (AFP) - A truck bomb killed six Iranian opposition fighters
and wounded at least 36 people near Baghdad on Wednesday, in the deadliest
attack on their group inside Iraq since 1986, the People's Mujahedeen said.
It immediately blamed Tehran for the carnage and said the Iranian embassy
in Baghdad was implicated ... FULL
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* Conversative clampdown on press
June 8, 1999 (BBC) - The conservative majority in the Iranian parliament
has introduced a controversial bill which journalists allege is intended
to restrict press freedom. The bill includes changes to the current, relatively
liberal press law in several key areas, such as referring some press offences
to the revolutionary courts, where there is no jury and no access to lawyers
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* Germany says concerned at arrest of Iranian Jews
COLOGNE, Germany, June 9 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Joschka
Fischer said on Wednesday Bonn was ``gravely concerned'' about the arrest
of 13 Jews in Iran on suspicion of spying for Israel and the United States.
Fischer, speaking after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
also said he did not believe that charges of espionage against the group
would stand up in court ... FULL
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* Israel's Barak asks Annan to help free Iran Jews
JERUSALEM, June 9 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak
asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to help secure the
release of 13 Iranian Jews jailed on spying charges. ``Barak asked for
Annan to intervene to find a way to get them released immediately. The
secretary-general promised to act on the matter,'' Barak's spokeswoman
said in a statement ... FULL
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* Iran's Rafsanjani hails improved Saudi ties
TEHRAN, June 9 (Reuters) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
said on Wednesday his country's ties with Saudi Arabia -- strained by years
of tension -- were at their best ever and called for more trade and economic
cooperation. ``At the present juncture, Iran-Saudi relations are brilliant
and unprecedented in the history of ties (between the two countries),''
the state news agency IRNA quoted Rafsanjani as telling outgoing Saudi
ambassador to Iran, Abdullatheef Maimani ... FULL
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* Trial over HIV-tainted blood opens in Iran
TEHRAN, June 9 (AFP) - Three former directors of Iran's state-run blood
transfusion body went on trial Wednesday over complaints involving thousands
of people infected with diseases including AIDS through contaminated blood.
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* Iran to hold funeral ceremony for 600 war dead
TEHRAN, June 9 (AFP) - Funeral ceremonies for 600 Iranian soldiers killed
during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war will be held Thursday at the shrine
of the Imam Khomeini, Iranian state radio announced Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
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* Iranian, Vietnam body, share U.N. population award
UNITED NATIONS, June 9 (Reuters) - Iran's former Health Minister, Dr.
Seyed Alireza Marandi, and the Vietnam National Committee for Population
and Family Planning were presented on Wednesday with the 1999 U.N. Population
Award. Each received a diploma, a gold medal and an equal share of the
monetary prize of $25,000 ... FULL
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Tuesday
June 1, 1999
* Amnesty concerned about Jews arrested in Iran
June 8, 1999 (Amnesty International) - Amnesty International is concerned
that the 13 people named above may be at risk of unfair trial and could
face the death penalty if convicted. News reports citing the Iranian authorities
state that they have been accused of spying for Israel and the US, and
are to be prosecuted in a Revolutionary Court on espionage charges. Espionage
carries the death penalty in Iran. Lawyers and observers are excluded from
trials at Revolutionary Courts, where trials often fall short of minimum
international fair trial standards ... FULL
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* Top judge says he is stepping down
TEHRAN, June 8 (Reuters) - Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the head of Iran's
judiciary and a hardline conservative, said on Tuesday he was stepping
down after 10 years in office, according to state radio. The ayatollah,
an influential member of the conservative clerical establishment, has been
an outspoken critic of the relative press and intellectual freedom in Iran
under its moderate president, Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Tehran's mayor wants to attract foreign capital
TEHRAN, June 8 (AFP) - Tehran's new mayor Morteza Alviri said on Tuesday
he wanted to attract private capital, both Iranian and foreign, to tackle
the city's twin problems of pollution and traffic. "We must attract
domestic and foreign capital from private sectors for our urban projects,"
Alviri said in an official ceremony to mark his assumption of office after
his appointment last week ... FULL
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* Iran court proceedings to start in blood scandal
TEHRAN, June 8 (Reuters) - Court proceedings will begin on Wednesday
in Iran's biggest blood contamination scandal affecting hundreds of haemophiliac
patients who received HIV-infected blood, the Iranian press said. The blood
scandal, which received widespread coverage on Tuesday in the Iranian media,
involves the French sale of HIV-infected blood to Iran in 1994. Officials
at the state Blood Transfusion Organisation have also been accused of being
criminally negligent in screening the blood ... FULL
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* Iranians fed up with conservative attitudes: Rafsanjani
daughter
TEHRAN, June 7 (AFP) - Faezeh Hashemi, a prominent moderate Iranian
MP and the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has lashed
out at the Islamic regime's conservative-dominated leadership. Hashemi,
in remarks published on Monday by the English-language Iran Daily, said
that Iranians are "fed up with hardline attitudes." ... FULL TEXT
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* GCC chief bids to defuse Arab squabble over ties with Iran
ABU DHABI, May 7 (AFP) - A senior Gulf official stepped in Monday to
defuse a rare public squabble between regional allies Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over improving relations with Iran. In a
display of pique over Riyadh's new friendship with Tehran despite Iran's
islands dispute with Abu Dhabi, the Emirati government-owned paper Al-Ittihad
ran a blank editorial under the headline "Gulf Cooperation Council"
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* Jailed Tehran mayor bemoans effects of conviction
TEHRAN, June 8 (Reuters) - Tehran's former mayor, in jail on a graft
conviction, sent his successor a message on Tuesday bemoaning the effect
of the probe which led to his imprisonment. In a letter read out for him
at the inauguration of new mayor Morteza Alviri, another liberal reformer,
Gholamhossein Karbaschi wrote: ... FULL
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* Tehran's new mayor vows to fight pollution
TEHRAN, June 6 (AFP) - Tehran's new mayor Morteza Alviri promised Sunday
to put the fight against pollution and traffic jams in the Iranian capital
at the top of his agenda. Tehran, a city of 10 million, hemmed in by mountains,
is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and is famous for its
monstrous snarl-ups. Some 75 percent of the pollution is thought to be
caused by traffic ... FULL
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Monday
June 7, 1999
* Low oil price hit Iran growth to March 99
BASLE, Switzerland, June 5 (Reuters) - Iran's economic growth slowed
to between 1.7 and two percent in the year to March 1999 as oil prices
slumped, Iran's central bank governor said on Saturday. This reflected
an ``illness'' in the oil-dependent economy, Governor Mohsen Nourbakhsh
told Reuters in an interview ... FULL
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* Iran says ready to improve ties with UAE
TEHRAN, June 7 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said
on Monday his country was ready to improve ties with the United Arab Emirates
but made no mention of their territorial dispute. ``We are ready to expand
ties with all Arab and Islamic states and the UAE is no exception,'' Kharazi
told the official IRNA news agency ... FULL
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* Row deepens between Saudi Arabia,UAE over Iran ties
DUBAI, June 6 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab regional allies, Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates, on Sunday exchanged heated words in what appeared
to be a simmering row over closer relations with former foe Iran. Not long
after UAE officials openly criticised some unamed Gulf Arab states over
rapprochement with Iran, Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan lashed back
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* Release sought for jailed Tehran mayor's farewell
TEHRAN, June 6 (Reuters) - Tehran city council has asked the judiciary
to let reformer Gholamhossein Karbaschi out of prison to attend the inauguration
of his successor as mayor, a member of the council said on Sunday ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran exile group says Iran attacks Iraq office
BAGHDAD, June 6 (Reuters) - The armed Iranian opposition group Mujahideen
Khalq said on Sunday that two bombs had exploded near its headquarters
in Baghdad, damaging civilian cars but causing no casualties. It said in
a statement that Iranian ``terrorists'' had detonated the bombs late on
Saturday, frightening patients at nearby hospitals ... FULL
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