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Friday
December 22, 2000
US court orders Iran to pay 311 million dollars for dissident's killing
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (AFP) - A US court has ordered Iran to pay 311 million
dollars to the brother of a dissident murdered by Tehran agents in Paris
10 years ago. Cyrus Elahi, a US citizen who was born in Iran, was gunned
down in Paris by Iranian secret agents in October 1990 as the Islamic Republic
sought to eliminate opposition at home and abroad, according to court documents
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Russia's defense minister to visit Iran December 26-28
MOSCOW, Dec 22 (AFP) - Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev flies
to Iran next week on a controversial visit extending military cooperation
between the two states despite strong US objections, officials said here
Friday. Leonid Ivashov, head of foreign affairs in the Russian defense
ministry, said that Sergeyev's December 26-28 visit falls within all international
commitments to non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction >>> FULL TEXT
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Assad may visit Iran after Ramadan: Iranian diplomat
DAMASCUS, Dec 22 (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may pay a
visit to Iran following the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends next
week, an Iranian diplomat here said Friday. "We have the promise of
a visit after Ramadan, but no date has yet been fixed," embassy counselor
Massud Rahimi told AFP
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Iran set to welcome more wounded Palestinians for medical care
TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Iran was set Thursday to accept another dozen
Palestinians coming to the Islamic republic for medical care after being
wounded in the almost three-month-old uprising against Israel, aid officials
said. They are due to arrive Thursday evening via Amman on the return flight
of an aircraft bringing some 30 tonnes of medical supplies and other humanitarian
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Index
* US court orders Iran to pay 311 million
dollars for dissident's killing
* Russia's defense minister to visit Iran December 26-28
* Assad may visit Iran after Ramadan: Iranian diplomat
* Iran set to welcome more wounded Palestinians for medical
care
* Khatami blasts "barbaric" Israelis, hails intifada
* Businessman indicted in alleged scheme to ship parts to
Iran
* New Tehran lab to perform 24-hour drug, alcohol testing
* MPs laud former culture minister
* Reformist in court over impeachment allegations
* MKO demands arrest of 15 top leaders, including President
Khatami
* Iran sending more humanitarian aid to Palestinians
* Judiciary denies back-room deal over Mohajerani's resignation
* Reformist tells parliament his son "dreams of living
in US"
* Powell appointment sign of militarization of diplomacy:
Iran daily
* Tehran police close down fashion show "depravity":
paper
* No money, no babies, Tehran hospital tells mother
of triplets
* June 8, 2001 set for presidential election
* Reformist in court over impeachment allegations
* Russia, Iran discuss global security, arms control
* Khamenei: "cancerous tumour" of Israel must
be removed
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Thursday
December 21, 2000
Khatami blasts "barbaric" Israelis, hails intifada
TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami on Thursday bitterly
denounced the "brutal and barbaric" Israelis and said their treatment
of the Palestinians was an "insult" to the Islamic world. Khatami
made his remarks before the nation's committee to support the Islamic revolution
in Palestine, which was created by parliament in the 1990s and inspired
by the country's radicals >>>
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Businessman indicted in alleged scheme to ship parts to Iran
December 20, SAN DIEGO (AP) - An investigation into an alleged scheme
to export restricted military aircraft parts from California to Iran has
been expanded to include a London-based businessman who was convicted of
the same crime in New York in 1988 >>>
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New Tehran lab to perform 24-hour drug, alcohol testing
TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Tehran has established a laboratory to perform
round-the-clock testing for drugs and alcohol, both of which are illegal
in the Islamic republic, papers said Thursday. The 24-hour lab, which will
use both breathalyzers and blood tests, will keep those suspected of violating
the ban from having to spend the night in jail, newspapers said >>> FULL TEXT
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Wednesday
December 20, 2000
MPs laud former culture minister
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - A majority of MPs voiced their support Wednesday
for popular former culture minister Ataollah Mohajerani, who stepped down
from office last week amid sharp conservative criticism. "No one can
claim that Mohajerani did not succeed in narrowing the distance between
the regime and the people," they said in a statement read at the end
of Wednesday's session, carried live on state radio >>>
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Reformist in court over impeachment allegations
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - A reformist who claimed conservatives are trying
to impeach President Mohammad Khatami was in court Tuesday to answer questions
about the allegation, the state IRNA news agency said. Mohammad Salamati,
who heads the radical review Ars-e Ma (Our Era), refused to answer questions
on his way out of the session but his lawyer said he hoped the case was
"finished," IRNA said >>>
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MKO demands arrest of 15 top leaders, including President Khatami
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (AFP) - A controversial exiled opposition group on
Wednesday demanded the arrest and prosecution by an international tribunal
of 15 leading members of Tehran's Islamic government alleging their complicity
in a 1988 purge of dissidents. The allegations by the National Council
of Resistance were based on information contained in the memoirs of dissident
cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to be Iran's supreme leader,
that were published this month on the Internet >>>
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Iran sending more humanitarian aid to Palestinians
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - Iran will send some 30 tonnes of medical supplies
and other humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, the official IRNA news
agency reported on Wednesday. The shipment, the fourth of its kind from
the Islamic republic since the latest Palestiniain uprising or intifada
against Israel, will arrive in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Thursday,
it said >>>
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Tuesday
December 19, 2000
Judiciary denies back-room deal over Mohajerani's resignation
TEHRAN, Dec 19 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-led judiciary on Tuesdaydenied
it had cut a deal not to prosecute former culture minister AtaollahMohajerani
on corruption charges in exchange for his resignation lastweek. "The
justice department has no information on how the former ministerresigned
and accordingly is not entitled to make any comments on theissue,"
it said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency >>> FULL TEXT
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Reformist tells parliament his son "dreams of living in US"
TEHRAN, Dec 19 (AFP) - A member of Iran's pro-reform majorityenraged
hardliners Tuesday by disclosing that his son "dreams of living inthe
United States." "I have a 12-year-old boy who has been harassing
me for a year or two togo live in the United States," said Behrouz
Afkhami, a movie director andliberal member of parliament >>>
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Powell appointment sign of militarization of diplomacy: Iran daily
TEHRAN, Dec 19 (AFP) - An Iranian daily Tuesday attacked theappointment
of ex-general Colin Powell as US president-elect George W.Bush's secretary
of state, saying it signified a "militarization ofdiplomacy".
The conservative Tehran Times said the nomination "reminds one of
USpolicy during the Cold War era, when the Republicans fomented or fannedthe
flames of crises in different parts of the word to promote theirarmament
industry and in order to keep the ball of their arms salesrolling >>> FULL TEXT
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Tehran police close down fashion show "depravity": paper
TEHRAN, Dec 19 (AFP) - Tehran police stopped the "depravity"
of awomen's fashion show scheduled to have begun last week in the middle
ofthe holy Muslim month of Ramadan, the Kayhan newspaper reported onTuesday.
It said police put a halt to "the activities of this centre of depravity
thanksto the help of the population," adding that organisers had launched
a vastpublicity campaign for what was supposed to be a six-day show >>> FULL
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No money, no babies, Tehran hospital tells mother of triplets
TEHRAN, Dec 19 (AFP) - A Tehran hospital is refusing to hand overnewborn
triplets to their mother because she and her husband cannot paytheir medical
bills, a newspaper said Tuesday. The Kayhan daily said the unnamed 22-year-old
woman gave birth to thetrio last week but was sent home empty-handed after
she couldn't cover theexpenses >>>
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Monday
December 18, 2000
June 8, 2001 set for presidential election
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council,
Sunday set June 8, 2001 as the date for presidential elections, the official
IRNA news agency said. With just under six months left before the polls,
it is not yet clear whether incumbent President Mohammad Khatami will stand
for re-election. He had announced he would run for a second term in office,
but later said he was still considering whether to do so >>>
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Reformist in court over impeachment allegations
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - A reformist who claimed conservatives were trying
to impeach President Mohammad Khatami was in court briefly Saturday to
answer questions over the allegation. Mohammad Salamati, after a brief
interview with the judge, was told a formal hearing would be held within
the next three weeks so that he would have time to prepare his defence
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