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* Iran's former president promises to
respect vote
* Rafsanjani cautions winners
* Rafsanjani slams United States
* Moscow blasts Senate's Iran nuclear bill
* U.S. State Department human report on Iran
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* Fraud charges mar final stage of Iran
polls
* U.S. senate targets Russian aid to Iran
* Albright renews Iran talks offer
* Iran radio says reformist victory will not shape U.S.
ties
* Khatami invited to visit Jordan
* One dead, 11 hurt in alleged attack by elite troops
* Tehran police face court martial next week
* Iranians study election results
* European leaders rush to Iran in wake of elections
* Kharrazi: Iran will be more liberal
* Khamenei pardons student
* Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave
* Triumphant reformers set out programme
* Hardliner accepts defeat
* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead
* New deputies are men and women in a hurry
* U.S. discusses way to reward Iran
* US weighs 'appropriate' responses to Iranian election
* Senate may sanction Iran suppliers
* Tehran joyous but calm as reformers romp to victory
* Iran upholds death sentence on student leader in riots
* Reformers win the battle, but voters say: show us
the money
* Abdollah Nuri hails landslide victory in Iran
* US welcomes "historic" Iranian vote
* European countries hail Iran election results
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Friday
February 25, 2000
* Iran's former president promises to respect vote
TEHRAN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
his political fate in the balance amid a dispute over election returns,
pledged on Friday to respect the result of the vote. Rafsanjani, standard-bearer
for the establishment in polls largely swept by reformers close to President
Mohammad Khatami, was clinging to one of the last of Tehran's 30 seats
yet to declare, according to one unofficial count >>>
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* Rafsanjani cautions winners
TEHRAN, Iran With reformists sweeping last week's parliamentary
elections, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani today cautioned the winners
against sidelining the losers. In a sermon at the main weekly prayer in
Tehran, Rafsanjani said the Feb. 18 parliamentary polls were "significant
and healthy." >>>
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* Rafsanjani slams United States
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top Iranian official slammed the United States
during a sermon Friday for professing a desire for improved ties while
pushing legislation to punish countries that help Iran's arms program.
``On the one hand they express willingness to have relations with Iran,
and on the other they pass laws which seek to punish countries helping
Iran with its weapons program,'' ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani said at
the sermon at Tehran University >>>
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* Moscow blasts Senate's Iran nuclear bill
MOSCOW, Feb 25 (AFP) - Russia slammed the US Senate on Friday for trying
to punish countries that it considered were aiding Iranian weapons programmes,
saying the "hypocritical" legislation would harm Russo-US relations.
In a harshly-worded statement, the Russian foreign ministry described
as "unacceptable" the Senate bill, which seeks to slap sanctions
on countries deemed to be aiding Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass
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* U.S. State Department human report on Iran
February 25, 2000 (U.S. State Department) -- The [Iranian] government's
human rights record remained poor; although efforts within society to make
the Government accountable for its human rights policies intensified, serious
problems remain. The Government restricts citizens' right to change their
government. Systematic abuses include extrajudicial killings and summary
executions; disappearances; widespread use of torture and >>>
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Thursday
February 17, 2000
* Fraud charges mar final stage of Iran polls
TEHRAN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Iranian officials on Thursday delayed releasing
final poll results for Tehran amid allegations of vote-rigging in a tight
race for the last of the capital's 30 parliamentary seats. Officials told
Reuters they were investigating charges that 100 ballot boxes were stuffed
with fraudulent votes. Another 100 boxes had yet to be counted out of a
total of 3,111 across the city, they said >>>
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* U.S. senate targets Russian aid to Iran
WASHINGTON Following suit with the House, the Senate on Thursday
voted unanimously to step up efforts to stop Russia and other countries
from supplying Iran with weapons of mass destruction. Supporters said the
bill was necessary despite the ascendance of reformers in the Tehran government.
"Fresh breezes of change are blowing through Iran," said Sen.
Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. But he said those changes have not reached the
highest levels of government "who unfortunately have made Iran a pariah
state." >>>
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* Albright renews Iran talks offer
WASHINGTON Secretary of State Madeleine Albright today renewed
an offer to talk directly to Iran about U.S. concerns with Iranian policies.
At a news conference, Albright also said the United States would watch
very carefully how the Iranian government responds to the large turnout
of voters last Friday "and the message that it sends from the Iranian
people that they want some change." >>>
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* Iran radio says reformist victory will not shape U.S. ties
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran radio warned arch-foe the United States Thursday
there would be no concessions from Tehran following a big reformist victory
in last week's parliamentary polls. In a commentary, state radio said the
nation was united in its demands for practical steps by Washington to break
the diplomatic freeze between the two former allies >>>
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* Khatami invited to visit Jordan
TEHRAN, Feb 24 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has been officially
invited by King Abdullah II to visit Jordan, the IRNA agency reported Thursday
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Wednesday
February 23, 2000
* One dead, 11 hurt in alleged attack by elite troops on air base
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Armed attackers alleged to be from the elite
Revolutionary Guards killed one airman and wounded 11 in an assault on
Iran's biggest air base at Shiraz, the Iranian daily Sobh-e emruz reported
Wednesday >>>
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* Tehran police face court martial next week over bloody unrest
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Tehran's sacked police chief and 19 other officers
face public court martial next week over the violent suppression of a student
demonstration last July, Tehran University said Wednesday. In an official
statement quoted by the official news agency IRNA the university said the
first hearing against Farhad Nazari and his colleagues in open session
would be held Tuesday >>>
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* Iranians study election results
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian conservatives blamed themselves and ``a
wave of lies'' in the press for their stunning defeat at the hands of reformists
in Iran's legislative elections. Conservatives also conceded that their
policies had failed after it became clear that the reformist coalition
would win the elections, ousting them from the legislature after a 21-year
domination >>>
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* European leaders rush to Iran in wake of elections
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - European foreign ministers are rushing to Tehran
in the wake of the sweeping election victory of reformists in last weekend's
parliamentary elections, with Italy and Germany leading the pack and Britain
not far behind. The Italian foreign ministry said Wednesday that Lamberto
Dini will pay an official visit to Tehran March 4-6, the first by a European
Union minister since Friday's polls >>>
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* Kharrazi: Iran will be more liberal
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's foreign policy will become more liberal
following last week's defeat of hard-liners in parliamentary elections,
Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Wednesday. "The positive
actions of other countries will receive positive reaction from the Islamic
Republic of Iran," he was quoted as saying by state television >>>
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* Khamenei pardons students jailed for "blasphemous" play
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has pardoned two students jailed for publishing an allegedly blasphemous
play in a university magazine, press reports said Monday >>>
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Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Former Iranian interior minister and leading
reformist Abdullah Nuri, who is serving a five-year sentence for "anti-Islamic
propaganda", returned to prison Wednesday after three days leave.
Nuri, an influential reformist figure, was freed on Sunday from north Tehran's
notorious Evin prison for a three-day home leave >>>
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Tuesday
February 22, 2000
* Triumphant reformers set out programme for more open Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Hot on the heels of their landslide victory in
parliamentary elections, Iran's reformers Tuesday set out their programme
for a more open society, vowing to open up to the foreign media and even
the long-hated United States. Emboldened by their capture of parliament,
long a bastion of their conservative opponents, the reformers also pledged
to end a five-year-old ban on satellite dishes aimed at shutting out the
foreign media >>>
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* Hardliner accepts defeat
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top hard-line ideologue has accepted defeat in
Iran's parliamentary elections, saying in a report today that his camp
will have to reconsider its policies. An influential reformer, meanwhile,
has said talks with the United States would not be a ``sin.'' Talks with
the United States, a more liberal press and increased personal freedoms
are expected to be among the issues discussed in the next Parliament, or
Majlis, which will be seated in June >>>
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* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead, two wounded
TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Post-election unrest has left three more dead,
including one child, and two injured, across Iran, the evening daily newspaper
Kayhan said Tuesday. Two people were killed and two others injured in the
first incident when a coach hired by supporters of one candidate passed
through a village near the southern city of Lordeghan where the locals
supported a rival candidate, the paper said >>>
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* New deputies are men and women in a hurry
TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Iran's new reformist deputies who will enter
the next parliament en masse following their sweeping election victory
are men and women in a hurry to change Iranian society, but not the fundamental
principles of the Islamic republic. The main reformist party, the Islamic
Iran Participation Front (IIPF) and its allies are set to hold three-quarters
of the 290 seats or more in the new assembly, having smashed the outgoing
conservative majority >>>
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* U.S. discusses way to reward Iran
WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is weighing how to show its
pleasure at the resounding defeat in Iran's parliamentary elections of
candidates who demonized the United States. State Department spokesman
James Rubin called the preliminary results, which gave reformers more than
70% of decided seats, ''historic'' and a triumph for those advocating ''openness
and engagement with the rest of the world.'' >>>
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* US weighs 'appropriate' responses to Iranian election
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (AFP) - The United States said Tuesday it was weighing
"appropriate" responses to the overwhelming victory by reformers
in Iran's parliamentary election last week. But State Department spokesman
James Rubin cautioned that conciliatory steps would not come immediately
as it would take time before reformers could make their presence felt and
affect policy >>>
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* Senate may sanction Iran suppliers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Brushing aside opposition from the administration,
the Senate is moving to compel the president to be more aggressive in tracking
Russia and other countries that supply weapons materiel to Iran. The bill,
taken up by the Senate Tuesday, also could restrict payments to Russia
in connection with the International Space Station. The bill is expected
to win the Senate's overwhelming approval when it votes Thursday, much
as similar legislation sailed through the House last September, 419-0 >>>
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Monday
February 21, 2000
* Tehran joyous but calm as reformers romp to victory
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - By previous standards of celebration, Tehran
residents have been relatively subdued as Iranian reformers romped to victory
at the polls, but no less joyous. When President Mohammad Khatami was elected
in 1997, "it was so unexpected, we danced. When Iran beat the United
States (in the 1998 World Cup), there was an explosion of fierce national
pride. We were a reborn country," said 35-year-old draughtsman Iradj
Tabei >>>
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* Iran upholds death sentence on student leader in riots
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - Iran's courts have upheld the death sentence
on a student leader found guilty of instigating deadly riots in Tehran
last year, a newspaper reported Monday. The courts upheld the sentence
against Akbar Mohammadi, one of three students sentenced to die for their
role in July's disturbances, the Asr-e-Azadegan paper said.
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* Reformers win the battle, but voters say: show us the money
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - All the votes have yet to be counted but Iranian
reformers are quickly learning one of the oldest lessons of democracy in
the book: the people don't stay happy for too long. Reformists backing
President Mohammad Khatami haven't even got the final results of their
upset win in Friday's parliamentary polls and already voters doubt whether
Iran's ailing economy can be turned around >>>
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* Abdollah Nuri hails landslide victory in Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - The landslide victory of Iranian reformers in
last week's parliamentary elections will save the Islamic regime, their
jailed standard-bearer, former interior minister Abdollah Nuri, said Monday.
"These results guarantee the future of the regime and allow us to
make progress in realising the regime's objectives on a more solid footing,"
Nuri told reporters outside his Tehran home where he is on prison leave
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* US welcomes "historic" Iranian vote showing support for
greater freedom
WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (AFP) - The United States on Monday welcomed results
of the Iranian vote showing the people "overwhelmingly" support
greater freedom and openness. "The results are of course not final
but all indications are that this election is an event of historic proportions,"
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* European countries hail Iran election results
Feb 21 (AFP) - European countries Monday hailed the sweeping victory
of reformist candidates in elections to the Tehran parliament as a positive
step in Iran's development, but reactions from its Arab neighbours were
conspicuous by their absence. Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, speaking
on behalf of the European Union, said: "There is of course still a
long road ahead in Iran, but the signals sent by Iranian voters clearly
justify the reform path.">>>
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