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October 18-22, 1999 / Mehr 26-30, 1378
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* Iran shuts down student paper over
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* MKO start six-day sit-in to protest Khatami's Paris trip
* Swiss parliamentary delegation to visit Tehran next week
* Senior Iranian cleric lashes out at US over Jewish spy
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* New press jury elected
* Mandela, Clinton discuss Mideast peace, Iran
* Freed Portuguese hostages not tortured: embassy
* Cohen meets Egyptian defense official
* New petition against Khatami trip to France
* Iran court hears prominent blasphemy case
* Challenging the revolutionary court
* Iran appeals court to rule next week on former mayor
* Cohen In UAE for Iraq-Iran talks with allies
* Iran charges US with wanting to damage regional ties
* 3 freed Portuguese still in Zahedan
* Khatami tours epicenter of student unrest
* First woman editor jailed in Iran out on bail
* Kidnappers release Portuguese hostages
* U.S. discusses regional deterrent
* Mandela says Iranian Jews will get fair trial
* Abbas Amir-Entezam, has been released from prison
* Court sentences student to two and a half years over July
unrest
* Nuri says Iran hardliners fighting Islam, history
* Iran court orders liberal editor jailed
* Iran rejects overture from 'bully' U.S.
* Cohen: Iran still a threat
* Khatami to visit Germany after clear-up of Hofer case
* U.S., Russia review nuclear treaty
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Friday
October 22, 1999
* Iran shuts down student paper over attack photos
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have closed a student
publication for carrying photos of a bloody police attack on student
dormitories, which sparked widespread unrest in July, a newspaper reported
on Thursday. It was the second recent closure of a student magazine in
Iran, where several moderate dailies have been banned this year ... FULL TEXT
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* MKO start six-day sit-in to protest Khatami's Paris trip
PARIS, Oct 21 (AFP) - About one hundred opponents of the Islamic
regime in Iran gathered here on Thursday at the start of a six-day sit-in
protest against the planned visit of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
next week ... FULL
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* Swiss parliamentary delegation to visit Tehran next week
TEHRAN, Oct 22 (AFP) - A Swiss parliamentary delegation is due here
next week on the first such visit since the 1979 Islamic revolution, diplomatic
sources said Friday ... FULL
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* Senior Iranian cleric lashes out at US over Jewish spy case
TEHRAN, Oct 22 (AFP) - A senior Iranian cleric on Friday lashed out
at US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for "interfering"
in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
October 21, 1999
* New press jury elected
Tehran (Cinema) - Members of the press jury have been elected for a
new term. With its new members, the jury may not be as harsh toward the
moderate press. But some say there will be no significant change in direction
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* Mandela, Clinton discuss Mideast peace, Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A relaxed Nelson Mandela briefed President Clinton
Thursday about his Middle East tour, urging Clinton to stay engaged in
the peace process and saying he was convinced Iran wanted peace with the
world ... FULL
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* Freed Portuguese hostages not tortured: embassy
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (AFP) - Three freed Portuguese journalists held hostage
for 22 days by drug traffickers in southeastern Iran were not maltreated,
Portugal's embassy in Tehran said Thursday. "The men were not mistreated
or tortured," a staff member told AFP. "They are in good health,
but they had to undergo a very difficult time," the embassy said ...
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* Cohen meets Egyptian defense official
CAIRO (Reuters) - Defense Secretary William Cohen arrived in Cairo Thursday
for two days of talks with staunch U.S. ally President Hosni Mubarak and
senior officials about Iraq, Iran and the U.S. military presence in the
region. Those have been the broad themes of Cohen's nine-nation tour of
the Middle East that has already taken in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates ... FULL
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* New petition against Khatami trip to France
PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Iranian exiles said they handed a petition
to French President Jacques Chirac's office on Thursday with signatures
of 650 prominent French people opposed to a visit by Iranian President
Mohammed Khatami ... FULL
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Wednesday
October 20, 1999
* Iran court hears prominent blasphemy case
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary on Wednesday bore down on
four students and a professor charged with insults against one of Shi'ite
Islam's holiest figures, assembling a special panel of Supreme Court judges
and hinting it may hand down the death penalty. Lined up along one wall
of the crammed, top-floor courtroom were six senior clerics from the Supreme
Court acting as advisers to Judge Saeed Mortezavi, who under Iranian law
doubles as prosecutor ... FULL
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* Challenging the revolutionary court
Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, the Friday Prayers leader of Isfahan has
severely attacked the revolutionary court for bringing charges against
Abdollah Nuri, publisher of the moderate Khordad newspaper. Taheri, who
is also Ayatollah Khamenei's representative in Isfahan, has offered to
act as Nuri's lawyer ... FULL
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* Iran appeals court to rule next week on former Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, Oct 20 (AFP) - Former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami jailed since last May on corruption
charges, will get a ruling on his appeal next week, judicial officials
said Wednesday. "Tehran's court of appeal will announce its ruling
on the conviction of former mayor Karbaschi on October 30," an advisor
to judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi told the official
IRNA news agency ... FULL
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* Cohen In UAE for Iraq-Iran talks with allies
DUBAI (Reuters) - Defense Secretary William Cohen arrived in the United
Arab Emirates Wednesday for talks about Iraq with leaders of the Gulf state
keen to see Baghdad's return to the Arab fold. Cohen stopped first in Abu
Dhabi to meet UAE President Sheikh Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan and then
met defense chiefs in Dubai ... FULL
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* Iran charges US with wanting to damage relations among regional
countries
TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry on Tuesday accused US
Defense Secretary William Cohen of seeking to spoil relations among regional
states by implicating Tehran in the 1996 Saudi bombing of a US barrack.
Cohen wants to "exploit the differences between regional countries,
and secure US interests and its arms sales," said ministry spokesman
Hamid-Reza Asefi cited by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL TEXT
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* 3 freed Portuguese still in Zahedan, and in good health: embassy
TEHRAN, Oct 20 (AFP) - Three freed Portuguese journalists held hostage
for 22 days by drug traffickers in southeastern Iran are in good health
in the provincial capital of Zahedan, Portugal's embassy in Tehran said
Wednesday. "The three men are safe and in a good condition,"
an embassy staff member told AFP. "The ambasssador, Arsenio Jose Manuel
Da Costa, is currently in Zahedan visiting them," the embassy said.
"He will bring them back to Tehran, but it is not clear when."
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Tuesday
October 19, 1999
* Khatami tours epicenter of student unrest
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami Tuesday toured
the Tehran University student hostels, scene of a bloody police attack
on pro-democracy demonstrators three months ago, state radio reported ...
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* First woman editor jailed in Iran out on bail
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - The first woman newspaper editor jailed in Iran,
Jaleh Oskui, has been released on bail, a journalist on her weekly Penj-Shanbeh-ha
(Thursdays) told AFP Monday. Oskui, 40, who was jailed last week for repeatedly
publishing "outrageous" articles, was released late Saturday
"after providing some 83,000 dollars bail," the journalist said
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* Kidnappers release Portuguese hostages in Iran
LISBON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Kidnappers in eastern Iran have released
three Portuguese men they seized three weeks ago near the Iran-Afghanistan
border, the Portuguese ambassador to Tehran said on Tuesday ... FULL
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* U.S. discusses regional deterrent
RIYADH (Reuters) - Secretary of Defense William Cohen said Tuesday he
was discussing with Gulf Arab states the development of a regional deterrent
against potential threats from Iraq and Iran. ``We discussed concrete steps
on a cooperative defense initiative and military planning for a regional
deterrent,'' Cohen told reporters in the Qatar capital, Doha ... FULL
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* Mandela says Iranian Jews will get fair trial
JERUSALEM, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson
Mandela said on Tuesday he was satisfied that 13 Iranian Jews arrested
on charges of spying for Israel would receive a fair trial ... FULL
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Monday
October 18, 1999
* Abbas Amir-Entezam, has been released from prison
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - A liberal Iranian opposition figure, Abbas Amir-Entezam,
has been released from prison after spending most of the past two decades
years in jail, the government-run Iran newspaper reported Monday ... FULL TEXT
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* Court sentences student to two and a half years over July unrest
TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Tehran's revolutionary tribunal has sentenced
a student to two and half years in jail in connection with six days of
bloody riots which rocked the capital in July, a reformist daily reported
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* Nuri says Iran hardliners fighting Islam, history
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri on Monday
dismissed any attempt to halt Iran's move toward greater pluralism as a
vain effort to stem the tide of Islam and world history ... FULL
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* Iran court orders liberal editor jailed
TEHRAN, Oct 16 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Saturday ordered the
arrest of a leading pro-reform editor whose newspaper was recently banned
for questioning Islamic principles, his colleagues said ... FULL
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* Iran rejects overture from 'bully' U.S.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei railed
against the United States Sunday, accusing it of being an international
bully, as Tehran rejected the latest offer of direct talks with Washington
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* Cohen: Iran still a threat
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Despite President Mohammad Khatami's efforts
to modernize Iran, the country continues to sponsor terrorism and remains
a threat to its neighbors, U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said here
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* Khatami to visit Germany after clear-up of Hofer case
BERLIN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Iran's President Mohammed Khatami will visit
Germany when the case of detained German businessman Helmut Hofer has been
resolved, the head of the chancellor's office indicated in an interview
published Sunday ... FULL
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* U.S., Russia review nuclear treaty
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials hope the lure of American assistance
with radar technology will get Russia to agree to amend a landmark anti-nuclear
treaty so that both nations can develop limited systems to defend against
potential threats from Iran and North Korea ... FULL
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