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Friday
August 18, 2000
Friday prayer cleric accuses US of trying to topple regime
TEHRAN, Aug 18 (AFP) - The United States is trying to topple the Islamic
regime in Iran just as it did with the communists in the former Soviet
Union, a leading conservative cleric charged on Friday. Ayatollah Ahmad
Janati accused Washington of supporting pro-reform elements in the media
that he said had waged a disinformation campaign against the clerical regime
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MKO says Iranian forces shell one of its Iraq camps
DUBAI, Aug 18 (AFP) - The Iraq-based armed Iranian opposition said that
one of its camps in southern Iraq had come under mortar attack by Iranian
forces in the early hours of Friday morning, causing no casualties in the
camp, but with some mortars landing on nearby civilian areas. "Revolutionary
Guards and the clerical regime's terrorists crossed international borders
and attacked with 120mm mortars the National Liberation Army's Camp Habib,"
said a statement by the People's Mujahedeen received by AFP >>>
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Israel says Iran pressing militants to attack
JERUSALEM, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim
Sneh accused Iran on Friday of encouraging Islamic militants to launch
wide-scale attacks against Israel. Sneh's remarks followed a U.S. State
Department warning on Wednesday that there was "an increased possibility
for terrorist attacks" and advising Americans to avoid use of public
buses and act with caution in crowded areas >>>
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US arrests man wanted in Argentina bombing
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. agents have arrested a Pakistani man who Argentine
sources say is wanted for questioning in the bombings of the Israeli Embassy
in Buenos Aires in 1992 and of a Jewish cultural center there in 1994.
An Immigration and Naturalization Service spokeswoman, Nancy Cohen, confirmed
on Friday the arrest in Los Angeles of Mohammad Abass Malik, on grounds
that he was in the United States without proper documentation. Cohen had
no additional information on the man >>>
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* Friday prayer cleric accuses US of
trying to topple regime
* MKO says Iranian forces shell one of its Iraq camps
* Israel says Iran pressing militants to attack
* US arrests man wanted in Argentina bombing
* US forces find no survivors from Iranian helicopter crash:
Pentagon
* Top Iranian official expected in Turkey next week
* Iran arrests more than 100 illegal Afghan immigrants
* U.S. ship rescues Iran helicopter
* Reformists oust hard-liner
* Khamenei rules out ties with the U.S.
* Leading reformist cleric appointed to head reformist majority
in parliament
* Algerian and Iranian presidents to meet in New York
* Interior minister warns against illegal demonstrations
* Thousands attend funeral of Iranian soldiers killed in
Iran/Iraq war
* MPs call for Afghan refugees to leave the country
* N. Korea admits missile sales
* Tehran meeting on "Palestine" postponed: Iran
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Thursday
August 17, 2000
US forces find no survivors from Iranian helicopter crash: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (AFP) - An intensive 16-hour search by US navy ships
turned up no bodies or survivors from an Iranian supply helicopter that
crashed in the Persian Gulf, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. Three
crew members were rescued by boats from a nearby oil rig after the helicopter
crashed Tuesday about 50 miles off the Iranian coast, but two other crew
members were missing, the US Navy said in a statement >>>
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Top Iranian official expected in Turkey next week
ANKARA, Aug 17 (AFP) - Iran's deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh
arrives in Ankara Monday for regular talks on the often difficult relations
between Turkey and its eastern neighbour, the foreign ministry here announced.
"The consultations will focus on bilateral, regional and international
issues," a brief ministry statement said Thursday >>>
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Iran arrests more than 100 illegal Afghan immigrants
TEHRAN, Aug 17 (AFP) - Iranian police arrested 120 Afghan nationals
in the eastern province of Zahedan who had entered the country illegally,
press reports said Thursday. The men had been smuggled into the country
and were hiding out in two houses in the region, the Kayhan paper said,
citing a local police official who said the rise in Afghan illegals was
a "threat to security >>>
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Wednesday
August 16, 2000
U.S. ship rescues Iran helicopter
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A U.S. ship rescued the two-man crew of an Iranian
helicopter that crashed near an oil rig in the Persian Gulf, state-run
radio reported Wednesday. The conditions of the pilot and co-pilot, who
were believed to be Iranian, were not immediately known
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Khamenei rules out ties with the U.S.
TEHRAN, Aug 16 (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei again ruled
out re-opening ties with the United States, the official IRNA news agency
reported Wednesday. Khamenei blasted Washington's efforts to secure a Middle
East peace deal, which has long been opposed by Tehran, and said the United
States was trying to impose its will on the region >>>
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Reformists oust hard-liner
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Reformist lawmakers ousted a hard-line legislator
Wednesday and made public a threat by a vigilante group to put a bullet
into the ``traitorous heads'' of those seeking change. The two moves showed
a new resolve by the reformers in their struggle with conservatives led
by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last say in all state matters >>>
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Tuesday
August 15, 2000
Leading reformist cleric appointed to head reformist majority in
parliament
TEHRAN, Aug 15 (AFP) - Leading reformist cleric and presidential advisor
Ali Akbar Mohtashami has been elected to head the reformist majority in
parliament, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday. Mohtashami,
a former radical and one of the main founders of the Lebanese Hezbollah
movement, was chosen during a meeting of some 120 MPs here to head the
various constituents of the reformist coalition in parliament >>> FULL TEXT
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Algerian and Iranian presidents to meet in New York
ALGIERS, Aug 15 (AFP) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said
Tuesday in Algiers that he would meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad
Khatami in September in New York at the United Nations. Algeria and Iran
cut off diplomatic ties in 1993, when Algiers accused Tehran of openly
supporting Algerian Islamic fundamentalists >>>
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Monday
August 14, 2000
Interior minister warns against illegal demonstrations
TEHRAN, Aug 14 (AFP) - Iran's Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lari
warned conservative opponents of reformist President Mohammad Khatami on
Monday that all demonstrations required permission from his ministry, the
official IRNA news agency reported. "Even to defend the values of
Islam, no one can demonstrate without authorisation," Khatami ally
Mussavi-Lari said in a speech in western Iran >>>
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Thousands attend funeral of Iranian soldiers killed in Iran/Iraq
war
TEHRAN, Aug 14 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami was among thousands
of mourners before parliament Monday for the official funeral of 300 soldiers
killed in Iran's eight-year war with neighbouring Iraq. The coffins of
the dead, many of whose remains have only recently been recovered, were
draped in the Iranian flag as young and old paid their respects to the
victims of the 1980-1988 conflict
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MPs call for Afghan refugees to leave the country
TEHRAN, Aug 13 (AFP) - Iranian MPs in a highly unusual step have written
to President Mohammad Khatami, asking him to order preparations to be made
to get rid of Afghan refugees, whom they accuse of "creating problems,"
the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday. The unprecedented letter,
signed by 154 of the 290 deputies, was read out at the end of Sunday's
parliamentary session >>>
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N. Korea admits missile sales
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il admitted that
his country has been selling missiles to Iran and Syria, according to South
Korean newspaper reports Monday. North Korea had previously said it has
sold missiles abroad but not identified customers >>>
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Tehran meeting on "Palestine" postponed: Iran radio
TEHRAN, Aug 14 (AFP) - The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
has postponed its "Palestine" meeting planned for next Sunday,
Iranian state radio said Monday. "The Tehran meeting has been put
off until after the one by the Jerusalem committee," said foreign
ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi >>>
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