News
September 13-17, 1999 / Shahrivar 22-26, 1378
Sports
| Arts
| Business| Rights
| Community
Today
* Austrian president first EU leader
to visit Iran
* Police arrest several suspects in connection with bomb
blast
* Albright challenges Congress on Russia
* Iran says Revolutionary Guards build own helicopter
Previous
* Iran hands down 21 jail terms over
provincial unrest
* Khatami's 5-Year Plan would privatize major industries
* Bomb kills two near Iranian Moslem shrine
* EU assembly urges Iran to suspend death sentences
* Greens call on Austrian president to cancel Iran visit
* Russia criticizes anti-Iran bill
* EU to urge Iran to reprieve condemned students
* Khatami's speech to revolutionary guards
* Khatami presents $112 bln five-year plan
* U.S. warns Americans against traveling to Iran
* Death sentences condemned
* American family can't seize Iran property
* US grain industry encouraged by first Iranian sale
* Iran rejects Arab League stance in island dispute
* Iran's reformers decry secret death sentences
* Iran acknowledges U.S. message, says was routine
* Iran rejects U.S. report on religious intolerance
* Iran Jewish MP says community worried over arrests
Sports
| Arts
| Business| Rights
| Community
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday
| Thursday | Friday
Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand
email us
Friday
September 17, 1999
* Austrian president first EU leader to visit Iran
VIENNA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Austrian President Thomas Klestil will make
a state visit to Iran on September 20-21, making him the first head of
state from the European Union to visit the country since the 1979 Islamic
Revolution. The president's office said on Friday that Klestil had accepted
an invitation from Iranian President Mohammad Khatami for an official working
visit to discuss developing and expanding bilateral relations ... FULL
TEXT
* Police arrest several suspects in connection with bomb blast
TEHRAN, Sept 17 (AFP) - Iran's security forces have arrested several
people in connection with a bomb blast which killed at least two people
Thursday at a holy site in the northeastern city of Mashhad, state radio
reported Friday ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Albright challenges Congress on Russia
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) _ The Clinton administration is urging Congress
not to abandon Russia despite frustration over crime, a crumbling economy
and the alleged misuse of billions of dollars from the International Monetary
Fund. Amid Republican threats to slash the administration's programs
for Russia and the former Soviet states by up to a third, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright chastised lawmakers for their ``hostile and dismissive''
attitude toward Russia ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Iran says Revolutionary Guards build own helicopter
TEHRAN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have taken delivery
of a new helicopter built by the elite force's own engineers, state-run
Tehran radio reported on Friday. It said the Shahed X-5, a four-seater
designed by a development and engineering unit of the Revolutionary Guards,
joined the Guards' air force fleet at a ceremony on Thursday. The radio
did not say how many helicopters were involved. ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
Thursday
September 16, 1999
* Iran hands down 21 jail terms over provincial unrest
TEHRAN, Sept 16 (AFP) - An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced
21 people to prison in connection with July's bloody unrest in the provinces,
including some linked to the outlawed opposition, newspapers reported Thursday.
The 21 were given prison sentences between three months and nine years
for being the main instigators of the disturbances in the provincial capital
of Tabriz, which erupted along with six days of riots in Tehran, the Hamshahri
paper said ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Khatami's 5-Year Plan would privatize major industries
Sept 15, TEHERAN, Iran (AFP) -- President Mohammad Khatami, under mounting
pressure to tackle Iran's economic woes, outlined an ambitious program
Wednesday to privatize several major industries for the first time in more
than 60 years ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Bomb kills two near Iranian Moslem shrine
TEHRAN, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A bomb hidden in a garbage can near a crowded
Shi'ite Moslem shrine killed two people in Iran on Thursday, the official
Iranian news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* EU assembly urges Iran to suspend death sentences
STRASBOURG, France, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The European Parliament called
on Iran on Thursday to suspend death sentences against four alleged leaders
of student pro-democracy protests in July ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Greens call on Austrian president to cancel Iran visit
VIENNA, Sept 16 (AFP) - The leader of Austria's Greens called on President
Thomas Klestil Thursday to cancel a planned trip to Iran next week because
of death sentences handed down there against four leaders of recent pro-democracy
demonstrations ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Russia criticizes anti-Iran bill
September 16, 1999, MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia on Thursday criticized U.S.
lawmakers for passing a measure directed at Russia that would impose sanctions
on countries that help Iran develop weapons of mass destruction ...
FULL
TEXT
Go to top
Wednesday
September 15, 1999
* EU to urge Iran to reprieve condemned students
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The European Union is to urge Iran not to
execute four alleged leaders of student pro- democracy protests last July,
EU diplomats said on Wednesday. The head of Tehran's Revolutionary Courts,
Gholamhossein Rahbarpour, disclosed in a weekend newspaper interview that
four accused ringleaders in the turmoil had been tried and sentenced to
die. The Supreme Court had confirmed two of the execution orders and two
more were under judicial review, he said ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Khatami's speech to revolutionary guards
Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA -- president mohammad khatami said here on wednesday
that policy of detente does not mean abandoning principles, rather it means
moving towards convergence based on national interests and those of the
muslim world ... (PART
1) (PART 2)
(PART 3)
Go to top
* Khatami presents $112 bln five-year plan
TEHRAN, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
unveiled a $112 billion five-year economic plan which aims to boost annual
growth to six percent and reduce the size of the dominating state sector.
Khatami, presenting the draft plan to parliament, proposed ending state
monopolies on telecommunications, railways, sugar, tobacco and tea and
pledged to encourage private investment ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* U.S. warns Americans against traveling to Iran
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Tuesday
warned Americans not to travel to Iran, saying despite calls by national
leaders for more person-to-person contacts, there was some ``harassment
by vigilante groups.'' ``The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to
defer travel to Iran,'' a statement said ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
Tuesday
September 14, 1999
* Death sentences condemned
New York, September 14, 1999 (Human Rights Watch) -- The head of Tehran's
revolutionary Court has announced that four as yet unnamed people have
been sentenced to death in relation to student demonstrations there last
month. Human Rights Watch today called for the retrial of the four in a
public court and with full access to the procedural safeguards set out
in international law. It said trials before the Revolutionary Courts do
not conform with international standards for fair trial ... FULL TEXT
Go to top
* American family can't seize Iran property
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A federal judge has blocked the family of a woman
killed by terrorists in the Middle East from seizing property belonging
to a foundation allegedly linked to Iran. Rosalyn and Stephen Flatow had
sued the Iranian government for wrongful death in the killing of their
daughter, Alisa, and in March 1998 won a judgment of $247.5 million. They
were the first of several families to win judgments under a 1996 federal
law allowing victims to seek punitive damages from nations that sponsor
international terrorism ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* US grain industry encouraged by first Iranian sale
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - After extended efforts to convince the
government to relax sanctions on Iran, U.S. farmers were rewarded on Thursday
with news of the first U.S. corn sale to that country in four years ...
FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Iran rejects Arab League stance in island dispute
TEHRAN, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Iran has dismissed as unacceptable the Arab
League's declaration that it backed the United Arab Emirates in its territorial
dispute with Iran, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted by IRNA as saying
an Arab League communique released on Monday after the league's foreign
ministers' meeting in Cairo was contrary to the ``realities, historical
truth and the brotherly spirit of Islam.'' ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
Monday
September 13, 1999
* Iran's reformers decry secret death sentences
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Pro-reform newspapers in Iran voiced dismay
on Monday that a Revolutionary Court had met in secret to sentence four
people to death for their role in July's pro-democracy unrest. Several
dailies accused the conservative court of mishandling the case for political
ends ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Iran acknowledges U.S. message, says was routine
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Iran acknowledged on Monday receiving a
message recently from the United States, after days of media speculation
on secret contacts between the arch-foes and a letter believed to have
come from President Bill Clinton. ``The exchange of unsigned messages between
the two countries is nothing new. The two countries have always informed
each other of their views through messages or official memos,'' Iran's
IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi as
saying ... FULL TEXT
Go to top
* Iran rejects U.S. report on religious intolerance
TEHRAN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Iran has dismissed as biased a U.S. human
rights report which criticised Iran for religious intolerance, a newspaper
said on Sunday. ``The U.S. State Department has circulated a biased and
unjust view on the status of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic
of Iran. This is an indication of its ignorance of human rights in this
country,'' the daily Iran News quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza
Asefi as saying ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
* Iran Jewish MP says community worried over arrests
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on charges
of spying for Israel has caused deep concern in Iran's Jewish community,
the representative of the country's Jews in parliament said in remarks
published on Monday. ``The arrest of a number of Jews has filled the Jewish
community with unease and anxiety,'' the daily Resalat quoted MP Manouchehr
Eliasi as telling a parliament session on Sunday ... FULL
TEXT
Go to top
Copyright © Abadan Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved.
May not be duplicated or distributed in any form
