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Friday
December 15, 2000
Russia, Iran discuss global security, arms control
MOSCOW, Dec 15 (AFP) - A group of Russian diplomats were returning to
Moscow from Tehran overnight after talks on global and regional security,
Russia's foreign ministry said. The delegation, led by the head of Russian
foreign ministry's security and disarmament department Yuri Kapralov, discussed
topics such as setting up a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East and nuclear
non-proliferation, foreign ministry officials said Thursday >>>
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Khamenei: "cancerous tumour" of Israel must be removed
TEHRAN, Dec 15 (AFP) - Supreme leader reiterated Friday a call for the
"cancerous tumour" of Israel to be eradicated, as fresh violence
erupted that left five more Palestinians dead at the hands of Israeli troops.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivering a sermon at weekly prayers, said Israel's
"crimes are even clearer than the sun at midday" and repeated
his call for the Jewish state to be eliminated >>>
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* Russia, Iran discuss global security,
arms control
* Khamenei: "cancerous tumour" of Israel must
be removed
* Iran's Cultural Architect Steps Down
* Judiciary denies motion filed to oust
president
* Former Guards commander tipped to run for president: paper
* Hard-liners move vs. Khatami
* Khatami election decision key to reform programme in Iran
in year ahead
* Rumours of Khatami impeachment bring Iran politics to
fever pitch
* Iran's commitment to follow road of reform is irreversible:
Khatami ally
* Missile plan won't halt Iran program
* Government bans smoking on state carrier Iran Air
* MPs push Khatami to run for a second term: Karubi
* Fundamentalists go on trial for attempted murder of judge
* Iranian army not a threat to other countries: Khatami
* MPs move to protect environment against alarming pollution
rates
* Iran allows organ transplant from dead, brain dead
* Two foreigners charged in plot to export jet parts to
Iran
* Alleged exporter pleads innocent
* Russia Informs U.S. on arms control
* Wounded Palestinians arrive in Tehran for treatment
* Man accused of bilking hotel claims to be shah's nephew
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Thursday
December 14, 2000
Iran's Cultural Architect Steps Down
TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami has accepted the resignation
of liberal culture minister Ataollah Mohajerani, a move which analysts
said could deal a fatal blow to the movement for greater freedom of expression.
Mohajerani was the chief architect of Iran's cultural renaissance, the
man behind the explosion of free press and arts in the country >>> FULL
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Judiciary denies motion filed to oust president
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - Iran's judiciary spokesman was quoted in Thursday's
press denying reports of a motion filed with the supreme court to oust
reformist President Mohammad Khatami from office. "No such letter
regarding the incapability of Mr. Khatami has been received by the judiciary,"
Hossein Mirmohammad-Sadeq said, cited in the Entekhab daily >>>
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Former Guards commander tipped to run for president: paper
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - The former commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary
Guards corps is expected to announce his candidacy for next May's presidential
elections, press reports said here Thursday. Mohsen Rezaie, now serving
as the number two member of a powerful conservative-dominated oversight
body, will present himself "soon" as a candidate, the conservative
Tehran Times said, citing an unnamed source >>>
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Wednesday
December 13, 2000
Hard-liners move vs. Khatami
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -Iran's hard-liners on Wednesday demanded the supreme
court take action against popular President Mohammad Khatami, saying he
violated the constitution by easing social restrictions and allowing the
economy to languish. The supreme court ``has the legal right to look into
the president's constitutional violations,'' said Hamid Reza Taraqi, a
leading member of the hard-line Islamic Coalition Society. Taraqi said
the group sent a letter to the supreme court last week demanding action
against the president >>>
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Khatami election decision key to reform programme in Iran in year
ahead
TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - Six months ahead of presidential elections in
Iran, observers here believe that embattled President Mohammad Khatami's
decision on whether to seek a second term in office will help shed light
on the future of reforms in the Islamic republic. Khatami, whose ardent
efforts to develop freedom of speech and open-mindedness have suffered
numerous major and minor setbacks during the past three years, still remains
extremely popular among most Iranians >>>
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Tuesday
December 12, 2000
Rumours of Khatami impeachment bring Iran politics to fever pitch
TEHRAN, Dec 12 (AFP) - The bitter political struggle in Iran took a
surprising twist Tuesday as rumours emerged that conservatives had filed
a motion to impeach embattled reformist President Mohammad Khatami. A top
judicial official quickly denied the allegation and announced an investigation
had been launched into the origin of the claim, which said conservatives
were looking to oust Khatami because he was unfit for office >>>
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Iran's commitment to follow road of reform is irreversible: Khatami
ally
TEHRAN, Dec 12 (AFP) - A reformist Iranian MP and ally of moderate President
Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday the people's decision to follow the road
of reforms in Iran was "irreversible," state radio reported.
"Our people have chosen the road of reforms, which is, from now on,
an irreversible path, and no one can stop it," said Ahmad Bourqani-Farahani,
an MP from Tehran and a former employee of the state news agency IRNA >>> FULL
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Missile plan won't halt Iran program
WASHINGTON (AP) - Iran, a major recipient of missile technology from
North Korea and China, will be only marginally affected if Pyongyang and
Beijing follow through on their stated intention to halt exports of missile
materials, a top State Department official said Tuesday. Richard Roth,
the No. 2 official in the department's Middle East bureau, said Iran has
been relying mostly on Russian cooperation for its missile development >>>
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Government bans smoking on state carrier Iran Air
TEHRAN, Dec 12 (AFP) - Iran's health ministry announced Tuesday that,
effective immediately, smoking is banned on all flights of state carrier
Iran Air, the official IRNA news agency reported. Smoking had already been
forbidden on domestic routes and was allowed only on international Iran
Air flights lasting longer than four-and-a-half hours >>>
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Monday
December 11, 2000
MPs push Khatami to run for a second term: Karubi
TEHRAN, Dec 10 (AFP) - The head of the reform-majority parliament on
Sunday said the legislature was pushing moderate President Mohammad Khatami
to seek a second term in office despite the head of state's "doubts,"
the official IRNA news agency reported. "Our candidate is Mohammad
Khatami," said Mehdi Karubi, denying rumours that he himself was planning
to run in next year's presidential elections >>>
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Fundamentalists go on trial for attempted murder of judge
TEHRAN, Dec 9 (AFP) - Members of a "religious fundamentalist network"
went on trial Saturday for the attempted murder of a senior judge in January
1999, state television said. The defendants appeared before Iran's revolutionary
tribunal in hearings closed to the public, the report said, without disclosing
any further details >>>
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Iranian army not a threat to other countries: Khatami
TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - Iran's armed forces pose no threat to the country's
neighbors but still need to be upgraded, President Mohammad Khatami said
Monday. Iran "does not represent a threat to other countries"
but it is "determined to firmly defend national interests," Khatami
said in a speech to air force officers >>>
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MPs move to protect environment against alarming pollution rates
TEHRAN, Dec 10 (AFP) - Pro-reform Iranian MPs have created the first
committee aimed at protecting the environment of Iran, said to be one of
the world's most polluted countries, parliamentary sources said Sunday.
Some 152 MPs from the 290-seat reform-majority parliament called for the
creation of such a committee to combat the increasing pollution of the
country's environment >>>
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Iran allows organ transplant from dead, brain dead
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's constitutional oversight body, the Guardian
Council, said it would allow organ transplants from dead and brain-dead
people under certain conditions, newspapers reported on Monday. The Council
will allow transplants if the donation does not accelerate the donor's
death in the case of brain-dead people, and if the donation of organs does
not constitute the ``wilful mutilation'' of a dead body, Aftab-e Yazd newspaper
said. Other newspapers carried similar reports >>>
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Two foreigners charged in plot to export jet parts to Iran
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (AFP) - US customs officials have charged two foreign
nationals in California with plotting to illegally export US aircraft parts
to the Iranian air force, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The suspects,
identified as Saeed Homayouni, a naturalized Canadian from Iran, and Yew
Leng Fung, a Malaysian citizen, were arrested Thursday >>>
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Alleged exporter pleads innocent
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A man suspected of exporting fighter jet parts
to Iran pleaded innocent Friday in federal court to charges of exporting
arms. Saeed Homayouni, a naturalized Canadian from Iran, was working for
Multicore Ltd., a company that was the subject of seven previous U.S. Customs
investigations into the illegal export of military equipment, according
to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego >>>
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