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October 25-29, 1999 / Aban 3-7, 1378
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* Khatami urges dialogue of cultures,
hints at U.S.
* Khatami winds up Paris visit stressing warm ties
* Khatami pledges "just" trial for 13 Iranian
Jews
* Khatami urges "dialogue"
* Khatami pledges no meddling in Mideast peace
* Khatami visit mobilises vociferous dissident group
* Khatami Paris trip shows "failure" of US
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* Khatami sets secular tone on France
visit
* Khatami business-minded in Paris
* Families of 13 imprisoned Jews can visit them: Khatami
* Iran orders four Airbus A-330s as Khatami visits Paris
* Khatami may address UNESCO general conference
* Khatami's trip sparks conservative criticism
* Thirteen years prison for "main instigator"
of July unrest
* Verdict on ``blasphemous'' play expected soon
* Khatami in Paris, police swoop on dissidents
* Chirac raises plight of arrested Jews with Iranian president
* Paris police operation against Iranian opposition
* U.S. salutes Iranian efforts to rejoin the int. community
* U.S. Spokesman Offers Iran Unconditional Talks
* Nuclear Lab Computers Limit Access
* Top judge seeks shorter prison terms
* Iran thwarts hijacking of internal flight: news agency
* Khatami visit to France juggles detente, tension
* Tension mounts as France prepares for Iranian visit
* Hundreds of Iranians refused entry to France
* Nouri says only prison can silence him
* Court prepares landmark case against reformer
* Nouri takes message to hardline heartland
* Court jails cleric over protest letter- paper
* Iran high court rejects ex-mayor's appeal - papers
* Khatami's Paris visit to build on new image
* Britain praises Iran's Khatami, to exchange visits
* Iran urges better ties with Pakistan army rulers
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Friday
October 29, 1999
* Khatami urges dialogue of cultures, hints at U.S.
PARIS, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami
held out an olive branch to the United States on Friday, appealing for
a dialogue between cultures to preserve peace rather than a blind clash
of civilisations ... FULL
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* Khatami winds up Paris visit stressing warm ties
PARIS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami wound up a trip
to Paris Friday with a call for global tolerance, better ties with the
West and a hope that a moderate message would win over investors' minds
and money ... FULL
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* Khatami pledges "just and fair" trial for 13 Iranian
Jews
PARIS, Oct 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami pledged Friday
a "just and fair" trial for 13 Iranian Jews imprisoned on charges
of spying for Israel and said their rights would be protected. "Be
assured, the trial will be just and fair," Khatami told reporters
at the end of his landmark three-day visit to France. "They can see
their attorneys and families... and their rights will not be trampled over."
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* Khatami urges "dialogue" but warns poor pose threat in
next millennium
PARIS, Oct 29 (AFP) - Iran's moderate leader, President Mohammad Khatami,
issued a plea for "dialogue between cultures and civilisations"
in a rare address in the west before the UNESCO General Conference on Friday
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* Khatami pledges no meddling in Mideast peace
PARIS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, winding up a visit
to Paris, said Friday Iran would not interfere in the Middle East peace
process. ``We will not interfere in the Middle East peace process...We
will not interfere with the efforts of others,'' Khatami told a news conference.
Iran has in the past denounced peace accords between Israel and Palestinians
as a sell-out of Palestinian rights ... FULL
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* Khatami visit mobilises vociferous dissident group
PARIS, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Parisians, confronted with security patrols,
closed Metro stations and screaming protesters, could be excused for thinking
all of Iran's dissidents were visiting France rather than just its President
Mohammad Khatami. Wherever the reformist leader went over the past three
days, exiled Iranians massed on the streets and slipped past riot police
to throw paint bombs at his car, wave protest banners and chant ``Khatami
is a terrorist.'' ... FULL
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* Khatami Paris trip shows failure of US bid to isolate Iran: senior
cleric
TEHRAN, Oct 29 (AFP) - Reformist President Mohammad Khatami's landmark
visit to France shows the bankruptcy of US efforts to isolate Iran, Ayatollah
Ahmad Janati, a senior conservative cleric said here Friday ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
October 28, 1999
* Khatami sets secular tone on France visit
PARIS (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami, the first leader of Iran's
Islamic republic to visit France, set a decidedly secular tone Thursday
by visiting the Paris Pantheon and honoring the only famous woman buried
there. Dressed in blue and black clerical robes, Khatami placed two bouquets
at the tomb of scientists Pierre and Marie Curie in the deconsecrated Latin
Quarter church, which is now a non-religious mausoleum dedicated to heroes
of the French republic ... FULL
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* Khatami business-minded in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami, the first leader of Iran's
Islamic republic to visit France, set a decidedly secular tone Thursday
by visiting the Paris Pantheon and honoring the only famous woman buried
there. Dressed in blue and black clerical robes, Khatami placed two bouquets
at the tomb of scientists Pierre and Marie Curie in the deconsecrated Latin
Quarter church, which is now a non-religious mausoleum dedicated to heroes
of the French republic ... FULL
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* Families of 13 imprisoned Iranian Jews can visit them: Khatami
PARIS, Oct 28 (AFP) - The families of 13 Iranian Jews imprisoned on
charges of spying for Israel will be allowed to visit them, Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami pledged in a meeting with the French Senate speaker, a
French Jewish official said Thursday ... FULL
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* Iran orders four Airbus A-330s as Khatami visits Paris
TEHRAN, Oct 28 (AFP) - Iran announced agreements Thursday to buy four
Airbus A-330 jets and air traffic control radars as well as 40 railway
locomotives as reformist President Mohammad Khatami continued his landmark
visit to France ... FULL
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* Khatami may address UNESCO general conference
PARIS, Oct 28 (AFP - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami may reconsider
his decision not to address the UNESCO general conference on Thursday during
his landmark visit to France, diplomats said in Paris ... FULL
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* Khatami's trip sparks conservative criticism
TEHRAN, Oct 28 (AFP) - Reformist Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's
landmark visit to France drew sharp criticism from conservative and hardline
newspapers here Friday amid anger at the high-profile protests in Paris
by the hated armed opposition in exile ... FULL
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* Thirteen years prison for "main instigator" of July unrest
TEHRAN, Oct 28 (AFP) - Iran's revolutionary court has jailed for 13
years one of the main instigators of the violent unrest that spread across
Iranian cities in July, a press report said Thursday ... FULL
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* Verdict on ``blasphemous'' play expected soon
TEHRAN, Oct 28 (Reuters) - An Iranian court is expected to issue a verdict
on Saturday against three students and a professor held in connection with
a satirical play allegedly insulting a Shi'ite Moslem saint, the judge
said on Thursday. Hardline judge Saeed Mortazavi told reporters that his
verdict would be delivered to the defendants, still in jail, and their
lawyers, on Saturday before being released to the media ... FULL
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Wednesday
October 27, 1999
* Khatami in Paris, police swoop on dissidents
PARIS, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami began a
three-day trip to France on Wednesday amid noisy protests and police raids
to round up opponents of the first visit by an Iranian head of state since
the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Chirac raises plight of arrested Jews with Iranian president
PARIS, Oct 27 (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac raised the plight
of 13 Iranian Jews facing a possible death sentence over charges of spying
for Israel, during talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami here Wednesday
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* Paris police operation against Iranian opposition
PARIS, Oct 27 (AFP) - French police arrested some 30 people in dawn
raids against Iranian opposition circles around Paris Wednesday shortly
before Iranian President Mohammad Khatami was due to arrive for an historic
visit, Iranian opposition sources said ... FULL
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* Washington salutes Iranian efforts to rejoin the international
community
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (AFP) - Washington welcomed Iran's efforts to return
to the international community as President Mohammad Khatami made an official
visit to France ... FULL
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* U.S. Spokesman Offers Iran Unconditional Talks
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official was quoted by an Iranian newspaper
Wednesday offering face-to-face, unconditional negotiations between Washington
and Tehran to forge ``more normal'' relations after two decades of hostilities
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* Nuclear Lab Computers Limit Access
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists from sensitive countries such as China
or Iran are to be barred from connecting with Energy Department computers
that contain even unclassified information beneficial to a nuclear weapons
programs, says a department official ... FULL
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* Top judge seeks shorter prison terms
TEHRAN, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Iran's new judiciary chief has criticised
heavy prison terms and asked judges to be more lenient, especially towards
first-time offenders and women, newspapers reported on Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
October 26, 1999
* Iran thwarts hijacking of internal flight: news agency
TEHRAN, Oct 26 (AFP) - Iranian security forces thwarted the attempted
hijack of an Air Iran plane by suspected members of the exiled opposition
People's Mujahedeen movement, police said, quoted by the official IRNA
news agency ... FULL
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* Khatami visit to France juggles detente, tension
PARIS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami can count on his
trademark as Iran's best man to mend ties with the West when he meets French
leaders on Wednesday, but he can also expect stormy protests over his country's
human rights record ... FULL
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* Tension mounts as France prepares for Iranian visit
PARIS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - France battened down the hatches on Tuesday
for a second human rights storm this week, defending its decision to host
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and closing its borders to Iranian exiles
hoping to come to protest ... FULL
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* Hundreds of Iranians refused entry to France
PARIS, Oct 25 (AFP) - Several hundred people of Iranian origin have
been refused entry into France in recent days, because their plans to protest
against a visit by President Khatami present a threat to public order,
the French Interior Ministry said Monday ... FULL
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* Nouri says only prison can silence him
TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Reformist Abdollah Nouri defied his conservative
critics on Tuesday, warning Iran's hardline clerical court on the eve of
his dissent trial that the only way to silence him was to throw him in
jail ... FULL
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Monday
October 25, 1999
* Court prepares landmark case against reformer
TEHRAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Leading reformist Abdollah Nouri goes on
trial later this week before a panel of hardline clerics in a case that
will help shape Iran's political and religious future. Nouri, a mid-ranking
Shi'ite Moslem cleric and close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, faces
charges of defaming late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
challenging Islamic principles and backing renewed ties to Iran's arch-foe,
the United States ... FULL
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* Nouri takes message to hardline heartland
QOM, Iran, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Cleric and leading reformist Abdollah
Nouri on Friday carried his radical doctrine of religious pluralism to
this holy Shi'ite city, spiritual home to Iran's conservative establishment
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* Court jails cleric over protest letter- paper
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A hardline Iranian court has jailed an outspoken
reformist cleric for one year for signing a petition against the house
arrest of Iran's leading dissident clergyman, a newspaper reported on Monday
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* Iran high court rejects ex-mayor's appeal - papers
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme court has undercut a bid to
release Tehran's maverick moderate former mayor, jailed after a graft conviction,
newspapers reported on Monday ... FULL
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* Khatami's Paris visit to build on new image
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will use
his visit to France to build on his country's improving image and speed
up rapprochement with Europe, a foreign ministry official was on Monday
quoted as saying ... FULL
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* Britain praises Iran's Khatami, to exchange visits
KUWAIT, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Britain warmly praised Iran's ``reformist''
President Mohammad Khatami on Monday and said the foreign ministers of
the two states would soon exchange visits for the first time since the
1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Iran urges better ties with Pakistan army rulers
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iran called on Monday for better relations
with Pakistan's military government, a week after it urged the return of
civilian rule to the neighbouring country ... FULL
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