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Friday
August 11, 2000

Cheney, Iran-Contra link probed

WASHINGTON (AP) - As a member of Congress in 1986, Dick Cheney was present for one of the defining moments in the Iran-Contra scandal - a White House meeting where Oliver North misled members of the House Intelligence Committee. The episode, however, didn't keep Cheney from defending North at the Iran-Contra hearings a year later or from stumping for him in 1994 when North ran for the U.S. Senate >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran prisons hoping to cut numbers by freeing women and minors

TEHRAN, Aug 11 (AFP) - Iran's prison system hopes to reduce the inmate population with a measure that would exempt women and minors from serving time, a newspaper reported here Thursday. The Iran newspaper said prison officials are expected to introduce a draft version of a bill to parliament this year that would let women and underage criminals go free on bail rather than go to prison >>> FULL TEXT

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Ancient sarcophagus discovered in Iran

TEHRAN, Aug 11 (AFP) - The sarcophagus of a woman, believed to date from at least three centuries before Christ, was discovered in western Iran during digging to lay a gas pipeline, the official IRNA news agency said Thursday. Mohammad-Rahim Ranjbaran, an official with the archeological center in the province of Hamedan, was quoted by IRNA as saying the terracotta sarcophagus would appear to date from the Ashemenides era, which ran from 668 to 330 BC >>> FULL TEXT

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Jealous man murders neighbour and stabs wife

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) - A 70-year-old bus driver stabbed his wife and then shot his 30-year-old landlord dead because he suspected they were having an affair, the press reported here Thursday. The landlord was killed instantly but the driver's seriously injured wife is still alive in hospital, the papers said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Cheney, Iran-Contra link probed
* Iran prisons to cut numbers by freeing women and minors
* Ancient sarcophagus discovered in Iran
* Jealous man murders neighbour and stabs wife
* Arafat asks Iran for Islamic Meeting on Jerusalem
* Iran releases "last" Iraqi POWs
* Supreme leader blasts foreign media, praises the people
* Venezuelan president arrives in Tehran
* Arafat to ask Khatami for OIC meeting
* Iran tells U.S. to mind own business
* Iran to release "last remaining" Iraqi POWs this week
* Report: Israel admitted Iranian Jews were spies
* Parliament speaker calls for end to conservative rallies
* More than 700 Iraqi POWs in Iran to return home
* US concerned over Iran legislation
* Parliament speaker calls for "neutrality" of prayer leaders
* Iran distances itself from academics who met with Israelis
* Iran says it seized ship with Iraq oil

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Thursday
August 10, 2000

Arafat asks Iran for Islamic Meeting on Jerusalem

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat urged Iran on Thursday to convene the Organization of the Islamic Conference to help shape the outlines of a future Palestinian state. Members of Arafat's delegation and Iranian officials said he arrived for a brief visit to ask President Mohammad Khatami, who chairs the OIC, to put the matter before member states >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran releases Iraqi POWs and says Baghdad should settle prisoner question

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) - Iran on Thursday released a first batch of a total of 728 Iraqi POWs that Tehran says are the last such prisoners held here since the neighbours' 1980-1988 war, state radio reported. It said 357 Iraqis were released earlier in the day while another 371 are expected to be freed later Thursday in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah on the border with Iraq >>> FULL TEXT

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Supreme leader blasts foreign media, praises the people

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) - The supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blasted the foreign media following his personal decree banning the new reformist parliament from debating a motion to ease curbs on the press. "Any moves aimed at satisfying Iran's enemies are faced with certain failure," Khamenei said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency late Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Venezuelan president arrives in Tehran

TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Tehran late Wednesday on the fifth leg of a tour to prepare for a September OPEC summit in Caracas, the official IRNA news agency reported. He was welcomed at the airport by Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, the agency said >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
August 9, 2000

Arafat to ask Khatami for OIC meeting

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will ask Iran's president Thursday to convene a meeting of Islamic states to back him on the issue of Jerusalem, the official Iranian news agency reported. Arafat's visit to Tehran is his next stop on a rapid tour of Middle Eastern states designed to garner support for the Palestinian claim of sovereignty over east Jerusalem >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran tells U.S. to mind own business

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran warned the United States on Tuesday against meddling in its internal affairs after Washington voiced concern over the latest setback to press freedom in the Islamic Republic. The State Department said Monday that an intervention in a parliamentary debate by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was cause for serious concern and that the United States expected Iran to respect freedom of expression >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran to release "last remaining" Iraqi POWs this week

TEHRAN, Aug 9 (AFP) - Iran Wednesday announced it will release the last remaining Iraqi POWs held prisoner since the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war this week despite Baghdad's claim that thousands more are still being held here. The official IRNA news agency stressed that the 728 Iraqis scheduled to be released Thursday and Friday are the "last remaining Iraqi POWs" in Iran, some 12 years after the war ende >>> FULL TEXT

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Report: Israel admitted Iranian Jews were spies

LONDON, August 9, (Jersusalem Post) - Israel has privately admitted to Iran that the 10 Jews convicted of espionage by a court in Shiraz last month were spying for Israel, diplomatic sources told the London-based monthly newsletter Ad-Diplomasi. The admission was reportedly made during secret meetings between Israeli and Iranian officials at a Cairo hotel on July 31 and August 1, in the presence of US Ambassador to Egypt Daniel Kurtzer and Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Zvi Mazel. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said last night that the report was "nonsense." >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
August 8, 2000

Iran parliament speaker calls for end to conservative rallies

TEHRAN, Aug 8 (AFP) - Iranian parliament speaker Mehdi Karubi on Tuesday called for an end to two days of conservative rallies outside the legislature to show their support for the banning of a motion to liberalise the press. "There is no need for you to continue your movement and we ask you to put an end to this gathering," Karubi said before the beginning of Tuesday's session. "Ours is also a revolutionary parliament >>> FULL TEXT

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More than 700 Iraqi POWs in Iran to return home in two waves

BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (AFP) - More than 700 Iraqis held prisoner in Iran since the 1980-1988 war between the two neighbours are to return home in two batches on August 9 and 10, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday. A source with the ICRC, which supervises the repatriation of POWs, said a total of 721 prisoners would cross the Munziriya border post in eastern Iraq at night to avoid the scorching summer heat >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
August 7, 2000

US concerned over Iran legislation

U.S. State Department Spokesman daily briefing, August 7, 2000 -- RICHARD BOUCHER: Well, I think our reaction is to reiterate what we've made clear on many occasions, that we do have very serious concerns about freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Iran. We would expect the government of Iran to uphold the International Human Rights Standards, including the right to freedom of expression >>> FULL TEXT

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Parliament speaker calls for "neutrality" of prayer leaders

TEHRAN, Aug 7 (AFP) - Iranian parliament speaker Mehdi Karubi on Monday cautioned weekly prayer leaders, who include some of the regime's leading figures, to keep out of the nation's political and factional disputes. "A prayer leader must refrain from backing one faction or another," Karubi, a onetime hardliner who now backs the reform movement behind President Mohammad Khatami, was quoted by the state news agency IRNA as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran distances itself from academics who met with Israelis

TEHRAN, Aug 6 (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry distanced itself Sunday from Iranian academics who attended a Cairo meeting last week with officials from Israel and other nations to discuss the Middle East peace process. An unnamed official at the ministry cited by the official IRNA news agency said the meeting had no connection with the Iranian government and stressed Tehran's position on Israel had not changed >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran says it seized ship with 800 tonnes of contraband Iraq oil

TEHRAN, Aug 6 (AFP) - Iran intercepted and seized a ship carrying 800 tonnes of contraband Iraqi oil through Iranian territorial waters, the official IRNA news agency announced Sunday. It said the ship was registered in Belize but did not indicate when the seizure had taken place >>> FULL TEXT

 


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