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Friday
August 4, 2000
Rafsanjani says regime could lose confidence over economy
TEHRAN, Aug 4 (AFP) - Iran's clerical regime is in danger of losing
the confidence of the people if it fails to address the nation's serious
economic problems, former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned Friday.
He said supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has acknowledged
that criticisms of the regime would be "proven correct" if steps
are not taken to address the economic crisis >>>
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"Dastardly" US scheme on Jerusalem denounced
TEHRAN, Aug 4 (AFP) - US efforts to get the Palestinians to compromise
on the issue of Jerusalem are a "dastardly deed," former Iranian
president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani charged Friday. During weekly prayers
at Tehran University, Rafsanjani dismissed US efforts to broker a peace
deal, accusing Washington of being on the side of the Israelis and trying
to short-change the Palestinians >>>
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* Rafsanjani says regime could lose confidence
over economy
* "Dastardly" US scheme on Jerusalem denounced
* King Abdullah II soon to make first visit to Iran
* Army chief calls for boost in regional military coop
* Iran says two troops, five rebels dead in border clashes
* Iran willing to accept 20 percent share of Caspian
* Egyptian and Iran foreign ministers talk Jerusalem
* Top judge demands review of leadership's personal assets
* Iran seizes 50,000 bottles of booze hidden in gas truck
* Internet coming as Iran village goes online
* 50 million-year-old dinosaur tracks found in Iran
* 3,000-year-old remains discovered near Tehran
* Former FM says no decision yet on running against Khatami
* Iran accepts democracy as a principle: Khatami
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Thursday
August 3, 2000
King Abdullah II soon to make first visit to Iran
AMMAN, Aug 2 (AFP) - King Abdullah II of Jordan will soon make his first
visit to Iran after receiving an invitation from President Mohammad Khatami
Wednesday, the official Petra agency reported. Khatami's invitation was
delivered by Sayyed Mohamad Sadr, the deputy Iranian foreign minister and
envoy of the Iranian head of state currently on a visit to Amman >>> FULL TEXT
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Army chief calls for boost in military cooperation in region
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP) - Iran's armed forces chief on Thursday called for
greater military cooperation between the countries of the region, state
radio reported. General Mohammad Salimi, a onetime defense minister who
was tapped for the army's top post in May by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, said such a move should be simultaneous with political and economic
cooperation >>>
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Wednesday
August 2, 2000
Iran says two troops, five rebels dead in border clashes
TEHRAN, Aug 2 (AFP) - Two Iranian soldiers were killed in clashes with
the outlawed opposition People's Mujahedeen that also left several rebels
dead and wounded, Iran's official IRNA news agency said Wednesday. It said
the Iraq-based Mujahedeen launched a mortar attack along the region of
Dehloran bordering Iraq in western Lorestan province and also sent a "team"
of troops to try to cross into Iranian territory >>>
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Iran willing to accept 20 percent share of Caspian
TEHRAN, August 1 (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday reiterated its readiness to
accept an equitable sharing of the resource-rich Caspian Sea during a visit
by Moscow's deputy foreign minister, state radio said. Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharazi told Viktor Kalyuzhny, who is also Moscow's envoy for Caspian
affairs, that Iran would accept a 20 percent share in the wealth of the
Caspian "if the other countries agree," it said >>>
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Egyptian and Iran foreign ministers talk Jerusalem
CAIRO, Aug 2 (AFP) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa talked Tuesday
by phone with his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharazi about the Middle East
peace process, and Jerusalem in particular, the Egyptian MENA news agency
said. "The talk was part of the consultations between the two countries
on questions affecting the Islamic world, in particular the question of
Jerusalem, Iran being the current president of the Organisation of the
Islamic Conference (OIC)," said MENA >>>
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Tuesday
August 1, 2000
Top judge demands review of leadership's personal assets
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (AFP) - Iran's top judge has asked the regime's leaders
to declare their personal assets in a bid to prevent illegal profiteering
while in office, the state news agency IRNA reported Tuesday. It is the
first time since President Mohammad Khatami came to power in 1997 that
the judiciary has invoked article 142 of the Iranian constitution, which
calls for a judicial review of the financial holdings of those in office
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Iran seizes 50,000 bottles of booze hidden in gas truck
TEHRAN, July 31 (AFP) - Iranian police seized 50,000 bottles of alcohol
Monday that had been stashed in a lorry that was supposed to be carrying
liquefied natural gas, state radio reported. Three people were arrested
in connection with the haul, which was made in the northwestern city of
Mahabad in West Azerbaijan province, near Iran's border with Turkey, the
radio said >>>
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Internet coming as Iran village goes online
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (AFP) - The first village outside Tehran will be connected
to the Internet this week, a newspaper reported here on Tuesday. Shahkouh,
a village in northeastern Golestan province, was chosen because of its
proximity to a university research centre, the Abrar-e-Eqtesad paper said,
citing university officials >>>
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50 million-year-old dinosaur tracks found in Iran
TEHRAN, July 31 (AFP) - A team of Iranian archaeologists has discovered
dinosaur footprints in the northeastern provinces dating back 50 million
years, the press reported here Monday. Archaeologist Ali Hassanabadi told
the Tehran Times that some 40 footprints of the giant creatures had been
found that are believed to be from the Cenozoic era >>>
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3,000-year-old remains discovered near Tehran
TEHRAN, August 1 (AFP) - Iranian archeologists have found the remains
of a 3,000-year-old civilization in the mountains near Tehran, the state
news agency IRNA reported Monday. "Human skeletons together with earthenware
pots were found in a number of individual graves," said Mohammad Mortezai,
an official of the Iranian Archeology Organization >>>
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Monday
July 31, 2000
Former FM says no decision yet on running against Khatami in polls
TEHRAN, July 31 (AFP) - Former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati
has not yet decided whether he will run against reformist President Mohammad
Khatami in elections next year, a conservative paper reported here Monday.
"I have not made a decision on whether to stand for the presidential
elections," the Ressalat daily quoted Velayati as saying, following
reports he would put himself in the race as the conservative faction's
candidate >>>
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Iran accepts democracy as a principle: Khatami
TEHRAN, July 31 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Monday
that Iran accepts democracy as a principle, but that it must be based on
a respect for the values and goals dictated by Islam. "We should want
the essence of democracy for all of humanity, but should not impose a single
form of it on to others," Khatami said at a meeting with visiting
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer >>>
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