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Friday
August 25, 2000
Kharrazi, Zimbabwe president meet
HARARE, Aug 25 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi and Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe met here Friday to discuss bilateral cooperation
between their two countries, the president's office said. "It was
a positive meeting and I believe this visit will pave the way for more
cooperation between the two countries," Kharazi told the state-run
ZIANA news agency >>>
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* Kharrazi, Zimbabwe president meet
* Iran finds wreckage of helicopter but fate
of pilots still unknown
* Turkey says better ties with Iran depend on anti-terrorist
help
* Section of the press blasts Khatami from
all sides over TV interview
* Iran sending Jewish MP on official delegation for first
time
* Report: Bin Laden group growing
* Khatami: Sometimes powerless
* Khatami objects to US policy but no problem with Americans
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Thursday
August 24, 2000
Iran finds wreckage of helicopter but fate of pilots still unknown
TEHRAN, Aug 24 (AFP) - Iran has located the wreckage of a helicopter
that went down in the Persian Gulf earlier this month but the fate of the
two Iranian pilots is still unknown, press reports said Thursday. The government-run
Iran newspaper, citing an unnamed naval official, said the wreck is 85
metres (280 feet) underwater and 200 metres (220 yards) from the Saga 2
platform in the Persian Gulf's giant South Pars gas field >>>
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Wednesday
August 23, 2000
Turkey says better ties with Iran depend on anti-terrorist help
ANKARA, Aug 23 (AFP) - Turkey has told Iran that any improvement in
bilateral ties must be linked to Iranian support for its struggle against
separatist Kurdish rebels and radical Muslim militants, the Turkish foreign
ministry said Wednesday. Turkey's uncompromising message was conveyed Tuesday
by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to Iran's deputy foreign minister Mohsen
Aminzadeh who is in Turkey for political consultations, a ministry statement
said >>>
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Tuesday
August 22, 2000
Section of the press blasts Khatami from all sides over TV interview
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami came under
fire Tuesday from both the reformist and conservative press a day after
a televised interview led by reporters from the state media. Papers charged
Khatami, who in Monday's interview condemned the wholesale closure of newspapers
by the courts, had contradicted his support for the press by having only
three journalists present to ask questions >>>
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Iran sending Jewish MP on official delegation for first time
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (AFP) - Islamic Iran is for the first time sending its
Jewish MP abroad as part of an official delegation going to the United
Nations next week, a Tehran newspaper reported on Tuesday. Maurice Motamed
will be part of the delegation led by parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karubi
to attend a conference of world parliament leaders, the Iran News said
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Report: Bin Laden group growing
WASHINGTON (AP) - The terror network headed by multimillionaire Saudi-born
fugitive Osama bin Laden is steadily eclipsing Iran and other Middle East
countries in sponsoring terrorist attacks, Congress' research arm reports.
Major factions in Iran are trying to change the country's image, and Sudan
and Libya appear to have reduced sharply their support of international
terrorism, the report said. Also, it said, Syria may be ready to expel
such groups once peace is established with Israel >>>
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Monday
August 21, 2000
Khatami: Sometimes powerless
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mohammad Khatami said he regrets the closure
of more than two dozen publications by hard-line rivals and admitted he
is sometimes powerless to protect press freedoms in Iran's constitution.
``I support legal action against any kind of violations, but the mass closure
of newspapers cannot be praised,'' the reform-minded Khatami said in an
interview broadcast Monday on Tehran radio to mark the third anniversary
of his presidency >>>
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Khatami objects to US policy but no problem with Americans
TEHRAN, Aug 21 (AFP) - Iran objects to US policy towards the Islamic
republic but has no problem with the American people, the state news agency
IRNA reported President Mohammad Khatami as saying on Monday. Khatami made
the remarks in a wide-ranging interview that has yet to be broadcast in
its entirety on state television, IRNA said >>>
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