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May 17-21, 1999 / Ordibehesht 27-31, 1378
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* Turkmens sign gas deal with Turkey,
reassure Iran
* Rights group condemns attack
* Khatami concludes historic tour
* Iran "plotted Afghan uprising"
* Afghan Taleban says foils Iran-backed plot
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* Two years on, Iran's Khatami faces
defining moment
* French concern at arrests of Jews in Iran
* EU team holds ``constructive'' talks on Iran ties
* Iran paper hits ``soft time'' for jailed Tehran mayor
* Khatami praised by Qatar
* Iranian city creates water police to combat wastefulness
* Khatami seen strengthening Saudi ties
* Khatami visits Qatar on final leg of Arab tour
* Iran leader opposes easing ban on satellite TV
* Opposition leader's driver not abducted - paper
* Iran denies Cypriot parliamentary speaker attacked in
Tehran
* Firm oil, political optimism boost Iran stocks
* Aid groups seek more help for refugees in Iran
* Alcohol and pornographic films seized in Iran
* Britain, Iran swap envoys after 10-year rift
* Open Letter from Iranian activists in Iran
* Tehran sceptical over peace process progress with Barak
* Majlis speaker calls for exporting Islam via internet
* Turkey implicated in attack on Cypriot official in Tehran
* Cyprus denies reports of attack on Kyprianou in Tehran
* Iranian architecht's designs could help rebuild Kosovo
* Saudi king in rare TV footage speaking to Khatami
* Khatami visits Prophet Mohammad tomb
* Khatami performs pilgrimage in Saudi
* Personal driver of opposition leader kidnapped
* Court rejects mayor's appeal of graft ruling
* Iranian papers hail Khatami visit to Saudi Arabia
* Confidence key to Iran ties -Saudi minister
* Iran to stage war games near Iraq
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Friday
May 21, 1999
* Turkmens sign gas deal with Turkey, reassure Iran
ASHGABAT, May 21 (Reuters) - Turkey agreed on Friday to purchase 16
billion cubic metres of natural gas a year from the former Soviet republic
of Turkmenistan, bringing an ambitious pipeline project linking the two
countries one step closer. Questions remain, however, over the financing
of the 2,000-km (1,250-mile), $2.0-2.5 billion project, which is headed
by a U.S.-led consortium ... FULL
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* Rights group condemns attack
Press release, (The Alliance for Defense of Human Rights in Iran) -
On Wednesday, May 19, 1999, following a peaceful gathering held by students
commemorating the birthday of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh in Ahmadabad, Iran,
his hometown located about 60 miles west of Tehran, the participants were
attacked by members of the Hezbollah group, supported by the government,
leaving many injured and hospitalized as a result ... FULL
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* Khatami concludes historic tour
May 20, 1999, (BBC) - President Mohammad Khatami's tour of Arab states
is being seen as a major step forward in Iran's relations with the Arab
side of the Gulf. He left the Gulf state of Qatar on Thursday after an
eight-day tour which had also taken him to Syria and Saudi Arabia ... FULL
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* Iran "plotted Afghan uprising"
May 21, 1999, (BBC) Afghanistan's Taleban movement has accused Iran
of being behind a failed uprising in the Western Afghan city of Herat.
A senior Taleban official, Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, told the BBC that
100 people had been arrested and eight ringleaders of the plot killed and
their bodies put on display ... FULL
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* Afghan Taleban says foils Iran-backed plot
ISLAMABAD, May 21 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban movement said on
Friday it had foiled an Iranian-backed opposition plot to attack the historic
northwestern city of Herat. Taleban Information Minister Amir Khan Mutaqi,
quoted by a Pakistan-based Afghan news service, said Taleban forces pre-empted
the attack by striking opposition plotters on Tuesday when they were distributing
Iranian-made weapons, killing at least eight of them and arresting more
than 100 ... FULL
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Thursday
May 20, 1999
* Two years on, Iran's Khatami faces defining moment
TEHRAN, May 20 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami has overseen profound
changes at home and abroad since his landslide election two years ago,
but a raging debate over the role of the clergy in the Islamic Republic
could yet define his presidency. Organisers of the anniversary, to be celebrated
on May 23, expect 100,000 members of Iran's new local councils, centrepieces
of Khatami's democratic liberalisation, to rally in Tehran's Azadi sports
stadium ... FULL
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* French concern at arrests of Jews in Iran
PARIS, May 19 (AFP) - A French Jewish leader Wednesday called on foreign
minister Hubert Vedrine urgently to intervene over the reported arrest
of 22 Jews in Iran some weeks ago, about whom nothing has been heard since
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* EU team holds ``constructive'' talks on Iran ties
TEHRAN, May 20 (Reuters) - A European Union team held ``frank and constructive''
talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday on ways to end two decades
of tense relations and boost economic cooperation, a member of the mission
said ... FULL
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* Iran paper hits ``soft time'' for jailed Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, May 20 (Reuters) - Former Tehran Mayor Gholamhosssein Karbaschi,
serving a two-year sentence on graft charges, has turned Evin prison into
his own private office, complete with mobile telephones and catered meals,
Iranian press reports say ... FULL
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* Khatami praised by Qatar
DOHA, May 20 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami ended an
Arab tour on Thursday winning praise from Qatar for his efforts to improve
ties with Iran's long-suspicious Gulf neighbours ... FULL
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* Iranian city creates water police to combat wastefulness
TEHRAN, May 20 (AFP) -With Iran parched by a drought, authorities in
the northeastern city of Gorgan have decided to create a "water police"
to monitor consumption and prevent waste of the precious liquid ... FULL TEXT
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Wednesday
May 19, 1999
* Khatami seen strengthening Saudi ties
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 19 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami wrapped up his historic, confidence-building visit to former regional
rival Saudi Arabia on Wednesday before heading to Qatar on the last leg
of his Arab tour. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saudi al-Faisal said in
comments carried by the Saudi Press Agency that talks had built confidence
between the two countries and would help them ``perform an important role
in ending differences in the region.'' ... FULL
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* Khatami visits Qatar on final leg of Arab tour
DOHA, May 19 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami flew into Qatar
on Wednesday on the third and final leg of a week-long tour of Arab countries,
officials said ... FULL
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* Iran leader opposes easing ban on satellite TV
TEHRAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has opposed easing a ban on satellite television which clerical leaders
blame for spreading ``corrupt'' Western culture, newspapers reported on
Wednesday ... FULL
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* Opposition leader's driver not abducted - paper
Tehran, (Neshat) -- The personal driver of Ebrahim Yazdi, leader of
the opposition Freedom Movement of Iran, has not been abducted, as reported
earlier. He was called to appear in court ... FULL
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* Iran denies Cypriot parliamentary speaker attacked in Tehran
TEHRAN, May 18 (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday denied newspaper reports that
Cypriot parliament speaker Sypros Kyprianou had been the target of a bomb
attack in Tehran. "Based on (our) investigations, such reports are
totally unfounded," the official news agency IRNA quoted an unidentified
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* Firm oil, political optimism boost Iran stocks
TEHRAN, May 19 (Reuters) - A rise in oil prices and optimism about Iran's
political and economic situation have fuelled a rise of more than nine
percent in Iranian stocks since March, brokers said on Wednesday. The Tehran
Stock Exchange's all-share index, which closed its trading week to Wednesday
at 1,665.77 points, has made up the 6.2 percent it lost in 1998 and now
stands 2.1 percent higher than at the end of 1997 ... FULL
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* Aid groups seek more help for refugees in Iran
TEHRAN, May 19 (Reuters) - International humanitarian organisations
are to meet in Iran later this month to appeal for more assistance to the
two million refugees in the country, a coordinating group said on Wednesday
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* Alcohol and pornographic films seized in Iran
TEHRAN, May 17 (AFP) - Iranian police have seized 2,500 liters (650
gallons) of alcohol produced in a Tehran workshop, as well a considerable
number of pornographic CD-Roms and videotapes, Kayhan paper reported Monday
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Tuesday
May 18, 1999
* Britain, Iran swap envoys after 10-year rift
LONDON (BBC) -Britain and Iran will appoint ambassadors to Tehran and
London for the first time in 20 years as part of an "upgrading"
of foreign relations. UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announced the move
on Tuesday, as Nick Browne, formerly charge d'affaires in Tehran, was upgraded
to full ambassador ... FULL
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* Open Letter from Iranian activists in Iran
May 10, 1999, (Anout Iran) - Dear Compatriots: One hundred seventy bitter
days have passed since the silencing of two shining stars of freedom and
liberty of the Iranian nation. In the meantime, the culprits are still
free, the wheels of justice are still immobile, and the nation is still
waiting [for answers]! ... FULL
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* Tehran sceptical over peace process progress with Barak
TEHRAN, May 18 (AFP) -The Iranian media expressed scepticism Tuesday
over the chances of progress in the Middle East peace process after the
victory of Israeli opposition leader Ehud Barak over Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu ... FULL
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* Iranian parliamentary speaker calls for exporting Islam via internet
TEHRAN, May 18 (AFP) -Iran's conservative speaker of parliament has
proposed enlisting the internet as a tool to propagate "pure Islam."
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* Turkey implicated in attack on Cypriot official in Tehran: press
TEHRAN, May 18 (AFP) -Police investigations have linked the Turkish
secret services to a bomb attack on Monday against a leading Greek-Cypriot
official visiting Tehran, a newspaper reported here Tuesday ... FULL TEXT
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* Cyprus denies reports of attack on Kyprianou in Tehran
NICOSIA, May 18 (AFP) -Cyprus on Tuesday denied an Iranian newspaper
report that the Cypriot parliament speaker had been the target of a bomb
attack in Tehran ... FULL
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* Iranian architecht's designs could help rebuild Kosovo
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Advocates of an innovative building method
say Kosovo's refugees, when they eventually return home, can use it to
transform the tools of war -- sandbags and barbed wire -- into the foundations
of peace. The technique known as ``Superadobe'' is the brain-child of Nader
Khalili, an Iranian-born architect working in the high desert of southern
California, who for eight years has been building comfortable, durable
homes from sandbags, barbed wire and earth ... FULL
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Monday
May 17, 1999
* Saudi king in rare TV footage speaking to Khatami
JEDDAH, May 16 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian state television on Sunday
broadcast rare footage with sound of King Fahd welcoming Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami to the kingdom. The television showed a tape of Khatami
addressing the seated king who also made comments on relations between
the two powerful states... ``Doors are now open between us to take relations
to the highest levels,'' the king told Khatami ... FULL
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* Khatami visits Prophet Mohammad tomb
MEDINA, Saudi Arabia, May 17 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami on Monday visited the tomb of the Prophet Mohammad in the Moslem
holy city of Medina during his landmark visit to the kingdom. Khatami,
flanked by dozens of Saudi royal guards with automatic rifles, walked along
a street to the Prophet's Mosque as Saudis, shopkeepers and Moslems from
others parts of the world looked on ... FULL
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* Khatami performs pilgrimage in Saudi
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami performed
a Muslim pilgrimage early Monday during a landmark trip to Saudi Arabia
paving the way for restoring trust between the two former Gulf rivals ...
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* Personal driver of a liberal Iranian opposition leader kidnapped
TEHRAN, May 17 (AFP) -The personal driver of the head of an Iranian
opposition party has been kidnapped from in front of his house in Tehran,
the party said Monday ... FULL
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* Court rejects mayor's appeal of graft ruling
TEHRAN, May 16 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by
Tehran's former mayor against his conviction on graft charges, leaving
little legal recourse for the jailed moderate politician, the Iranian news
agency IRNA reported on Sunday ... FULL
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* Iranian papers hail Khatami visit to Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN, May 17 (Reuters) - Iranian newspapers from rival tendencies
closed ranks on Monday, hailing President Mohammad Khatami's landmark visit
to Saudi Arabia as a success ... FULL
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* Confidence key to Iran ties -Saudi minister
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 16 (Reuters) - The Saudi foreign minister
said on Sunday there were potentially no limits to the extent of ties with
Iran, but that the two sides still had to build confidence and had ``a
lot of groundwork to do.'' ... FULL
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* Iran to stage war games near Iraq
May 17, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- More than 8,000 Iranian
troops will stage war games near the Iranian border with Iraq this month
to mark the liberation of a key port city during the 1980-88 war, the Iranian
news agency reported Monday... FULL
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* Taliban accuses Iran of attacks
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's Taliban rulers accused Iran
today sending troops and firing artillery into its western provinces. Taliban
officials, speaking at the Afghan Embassy in neighboring Pakistan, said
Iranian soldiers briefly crossed into the Afghanistan and fired dozens
of shells and heavy artillery into western Farah province during the weekend.
They also hit territory in Herat province, which borders Iran, they said
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