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September 20-24, 1999 / Shahrivar 29-2 Mehr, 1378
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* International campaign in defence
of Iranian students
* Khatami OKs peaceful reform
* U.S. sanctions on Iran energy deals to stay-official
* Jordan defends Hamas detentions
* Airport exile reluctant to leave
* Reagan bio mixes fiction, history
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* Conservatives tighten proposed press
law
* Iran parades new missile, tank on war anniversary
* Britain to continue Rushdie protection
* Two armed robbers hanged
* Britain, Iran to exchange ministerial visits
* Leader says Iran seeks better ties with EU not U.S.
* Austrian president voices EU concern over human rights
* Conservative Iran body seen keeping grip on vote
* Rafsanjani may run for parliament-aide
* Iran says starts mass producing new tank
* Khatami seeks pardon for Iranians sentenced to die
* Reformist Iranian daily answers anti-Islam charges
* Report says student unrest began spontaneously
* Official says 13 Jews are innocent before law
* Austria's Klestil calls for improved EU-Iran ties
* Iran Revolutionary Guards build new missile
* 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
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Thursday
September 23, 1999
* International campaign in defence of Iranian students
The International campaign in defence of Iranian students was initiated
by the Co-ordinating Committee of Workers' Left Unity and the editorial
board of iran bulletin. It has had the support over 450 academics, journalists,
professionals,members of parliament, trade unionists, students, individuals,
and over 50 organisations from across the world. Signatories to the campaigns
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* Khatami OKs peaceful reform
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In another apparent nod of encouragement for peaceful
reforms, Iran's president opened a vast military parade Wednesday by declaring
the armed forces would never be used to suppress restrained domestic dissent.
``Day by day our military is getting stronger, but they are not going to
be used to crack down on the people and they will only be deployed against
the enemies of the country,'' President Mohammed Khatami said before an
annual display of Iran's military power, including the public unveiling
of the mobile Zelzal missile that some experts believe is capable of reaching
most points in the Middle East ... FULL
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* U.S. sanctions on Iran energy deals to stay-official
WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A top State Department official said
on Wednesday that U.S. sanctions against large foreign investments in Iran's
oil and natural gas sector will remain in place for the foreseeable future.
``I do not foresee a fundamental change in the (U.S.) sanctions policy,''
said Ambassador Elizabeth Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary in
the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, in a speech at a
Middle East Economic Digest conference ... FULL
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* Jordan defends Hamas detentions
Sept 23, (BBC) - Jordan has defended the arrests on Wednesday of three
senior Hamas officials who had been out of the country since a government
crackdown on the movement last month. The trio - politbureau chief Khalid
Mishal, official spokesman Ibrahim Ghosheh and politbureau member Musa
Abu Marzuq - were detained at Amman airport after their plane from Iran
landed on Wednesday ... FULL
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* Airport exile reluctant to leave
Sept 23, (BBC) - The man who spent 11 years waiting at the Roissy-Charles
de Gaulle airport near Paris for his travel documents now appears reluctant
to face the outside world once more. But after more than a decade on a
plastic bench next to a pizza outlet, the dream of freedom seems to have
lost its allure for Mr Nasseri ... FULL
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* Reagan bio mixes fiction, history
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ronald Reagan's authorized biography, 14 years in
the making, doesn't know what to make of his role in the Iran-Contra scandal
that soiled his remarkable imprint on the nation. But it is more surefooted
in saying that Reagan, in his final years as president, was practicing
``conservation of mental resources'' and struggling as if by sheer will
to stay focused on the things he really cared about ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 22, 1999
* Conservatives tighten proposed press law
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A conservative parliamentary committee has proposed
new restrictions on Iran's press, a main battleground between reformers
around President Mohammad Khatami and hard-line rivals, newspapers reported
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* Iran parades new missile, tank on war anniversary
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards showed off their
own surface-to-surface missile for the first time Wednesday as President
Mohammad Khatami pledged that Iranian forces would help maintain regional
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* Britain to continue Rushdie protection despite renewed Iran ties
LONDON, Sept 22 (AFP) - Britain said Wednesday it would continue its
protection of author Salman Rushdie -- condemnmed to death a decade ago
in a fatwa from Iran's then spiritual leader -- despite improved diplomatic
links with Tehran ... FULL
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* Two armed robbers hanged
TEHRAN, Sept 22 (AFP) - Two convicted armed robbers were hanged in public
Wednesday for a shock daylight heist in Iran's holy city of Qom which left
seven people dead, state radio said ... FULL
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Tuesday
September 21, 1999
* Britain, Iran to exchange ministerial visits
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain and Iran agreed Tuesday to exchange
ministerial visits for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution
in a further warming of ties since Tehran pledged last year not to carry
out a death edict against British author Salman Rushdie ... FULL
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* Leader Says Iran Seeks Better Ties With EU Not U.S.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran prefers to strengthen ties with Europe rather
than with a United States bent on dominating the world, Iranian supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting Austrian president Tuesday
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* Austrian president voices EU concern over human rights in Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - Austrian President Thomas Klestil expressed
the EU's "dismay and preoccupation over the human rights situation"
here Tuesday but said his country wanted to maintain ties, particularly
economic ones, with Iran ... FULL
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* Conservative Iran body seen keeping grip on vote
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Iran's conservative Council of Guardians
has reasserted its right to bar election candidates from the ballot at
will, a move seen as damaging to reformers' prospects in upcoming parliamentary
contests ... FULL
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* Rafsanjani may run for parliament-aide
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
still a powerful political figure in Iran, may decide to run in upcoming
parliamentary elections, a close aide said on Tuesday ... FULL
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* Iran says starts mass producing new tank
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Iran's army has begun mass production of
a lighter and more manoeuvrable version of the locally made Zolfaqar battle
tank, a senior military official said on Tuesday ... FULL
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Monday
September 20, 1999
* Khatami seeks pardon for Iranians sentenced to die
TEHRAN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami hoped
that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would pardon four people sentenced
to death over pro-democracy unrest, an official was quoted as saying on
Sunday. ``Mr Khatami said recently that he hoped (those sentenced to death)
would benefit from the leader's pardon,'' newspapers quoted his office
secretary Mohammad Ali Abtahi as saying ... FULL
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* Reformist Iranian daily answers anti-Islam charges
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Iran's leading pro-reform newspaper, already
under suspension, went on trial on Monday on charges of insulting Islamic
values and spreading propaganda against the state ``Jail me for five years,
but abide by the law,'' publisher Latif Safari told the court ... FULL TEXT
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* Report says student unrest began spontaneously
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Iran's Intelligence Ministry said on Monday
a pro-democracy student protest which escalated into major unrest in June
had started as a largely spontaneous event, state radio reported. It quoted
a statement by the ministry, which is in charge of internal security, as
also saying its agents had arrested 20 hardline vigilantes whom it accused
of provoking violence by attacking student protesters at a university dormitory
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* Official says 13 Jews are innocent before law
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Some of the 13 Iranian Jews held in Iran
on espionage charges have confessed but all are considered innocent until
found guilty by a court of law, a top judiciary official was quoted on
Monday as saying. Hadi Marvi, a mid-ranking Shi'ite Moslem cleric and the
new deputy head of the judiciary, told the Iran News that Islamic law required
the presumption of innocence for all accused ... FULL
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* Austria's Klestil calls for improved EU-Iran ties
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Visiting Austrian President Thomas Klestil
expressed hope on Monday that a dialogue between the EU and Iran would
lead to better ties and lend support to moderate Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami's reform ... FULL
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* Iran Revolutionary Guards build new missile
TEHRAN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have developed
a new surface-to-surface missile which they will display at a military
parade in Tehran this week, a senior official of the elite force was quoted
on Sunday as saying ... FULL
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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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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