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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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." >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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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
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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
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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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