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* German businessman to leave Iran soon
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* History of the Hofer affair
* German government expresses relief
* Iranian delegation arrives in Kabul
* Swiss minister to visit Iran to assess ties
* Two die, more than 1,000 homes destroyed in storm
* Khatami appeals for fair parliamentary poll
* Reformist ally of Khatami slams Rafsanjani's candidacy
for poll
* Former Tehran mayor soon to be freed, according to press
* Prosecution demands suspended sentence for Iranian on
spy charge
* Iran's Khatami seeks end to foreign Gulf presence
* Iran begins production of Russian anti-tank missile
* Reformist student leader disappears, association says
* Appeal court cuts students' jail terms for "blasphemous"
play
* Head of conservative Keyhan newspaper appears on trial
* Iran dailies in court over dissident interview
* Iran seized 235 tonnes of drugs in 1999
* Iran slams attack on Egypt-Iran friendship association
* Khatami says Persian Gulf will always be Persian
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Friday
January 21, 2000
* Rafsanjani hits back at critics of candidacy
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani
hit back Friday at reformist critics of his candidacy for key parliamentary
elections next month describing them as "like the AIDS virus."
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* German Businessman Back From Iran
BERLIN (AP) - A German businessman freed by Iran after once being condemned
to death for a relationship with an Iranian woman returned home Friday,
ending a two-year legal odyssey that strained ties between Germany and
Iran. Helmut Hofer, who was being shielded from the media, reportedly
landed at Cologne/Bonn airport on a German government plane. Government
spokeswoman Charima Reinhardt confirmed his arrival but said his whereabouts
would not be disclosed while he was undergoing several days of medical
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Thursday
January 20, 2000
* German businessman to leave Iran soon after trial
TEHRAN, Jan 20 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Thursday fined German
businessman Helmut Hofer, once held on death row for illicit sex with a
Moslem woman, on a minor assault charge, paving the way for his return
to Germany, his lawyer said. ``He is free as of right now. We are off to
pay his...fine,'' attorney Naser Taheri told reporters after the closed
court session. ``He may stay or leave. He may do as he likes.'' >>>
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* History of the Hofer affair
TEHRAN, Jan 20 (AFP) - German businessman Helmut Hofer finally walked
free Thursday after a momentous two years, most of which he spent in Iranian
jails. Following our key dates in the history of the case >>>
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* German government expresses relief
BERLIN, Jan 20 (AFP) - The German government expressed relief Thursday
at news of the release of German businessman Helmut Hofer in Iran, opening
the way to improved relations between Tehran and Berlin. Hofer, 58, spent
most of the past two years in jail and at one point faced execution for
an affair with an Iranian Muslim woman. He walked free Thursday after a
court trying him for a subsequent offence of insulting a security official
fined him 6,600 dollars >>>
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* Iranian delegation arrives in Kabul
KABUL, Jan 30 (AFP) A six-strong Iranian delegation arrived in Kabul
Thursday to hold trade talks with officials from the ruling Taliban and
visit their shut embassy building, Taliban official sources said. "The
delegation arrived Thursday," said Qari Fazl Rabi, an official of
the Taliban Bakhtar Information Agency >>>
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* Swiss minister to visit Iran to assess ties
BERN, Jan 20 (AFP) - Swiss secretary of state for foreign affairs Franz
von Daniken will visit Iran January 21-23 to assess bilateral relations
and the possibility of deepening ties with Tehran, a ministry statement
said Thursday >>>
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* Two die, more than 1,000 homes destroyed in Iranian storm
TEHRAN, Jan 20 (AFP) - Two people were killed and 1,100 houses destroyed
when hot winds of up to 120 kilometers (75 miles) an hour swept through
the northern Iranian province of Gilan, the official IRNA news agency reported
Thursday >>>
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Wednesday
January 19, 2000
* Khatami appeals for fair parliamentary poll
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, who has
seen a number of his allies banned from running for parliament next month,
appealed on Wednesday for fair elections. ``If we have a correct and clean
election and the parliament is more representative of the people, there
will be a better relationship between the government and the people,''
the state news agnecy IRNA quoted Khatami as saying >>>
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* Reformist ally of Khatami slams Rafsanjani's candidacy for poll
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (AFP) - One of the leading figures of the radical Iranian
movement of the 1980s and ally of reformist President Mohammad Katami hit
out Wednesday at the candidacy of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
for February's legislative elections >>>
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* Former Tehran mayor soon to be freed, according to press
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (AFP) - Tehran's former reformist mayor, Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, jailed on corruption charges since May 1999, will be freed in
February, several Iranian newspapers reported Wednesday. Moreover, the
former mayor will be allowed to return to the political field, according
to the reformist daily Asr-e-Azadegan >>>
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* Prosecution demands suspended sentence for Iranian on spy charge
BERLIN, Jan 19 (AFP) - The German prosecution Wednesday demanded an
18-month suspended jail sentence for Hamid Khorsand charged here with espionage
in Germany against members of Iran's political opposition in exile >>> FULL
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* Iran's Khatami seeks end to foreign Gulf presence
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called
on Wednesday for an end to the presence of foreign forces in the Gulf,
saying regional countries were capable of policing the oil-rich area
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* Iran begins production of Russian anti-tank missile
MOSCOW, Jan 19 (AFP) - Iran has begun mass production of the Russian
anti-tank missile 'Concours', Russian military sources said Wednesday,
cited by Itar-Tass agency. The 9M113 Concours, patented by the military
KBP factory in the town of Tula, south of Moscow, has a range of up to
four kilometres (2.4 miles), the sources said >>>
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Tuesday
January 18, 2000
* Reformist student leader disappears, association says
TEHRAN, Jan 18 (AFP) - A reformist student leader has been missing since
Sunday, after having been kidnapped and released on January 8, and threatened
twice more since, a student association said Tuesday. The Islamic Association
of Students in Semnan, east of Tehran, is "very concerned about him
and his state of health," it said of its leader Abbas Pazuki in a
statement sent to AFP >>>
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* Appeal court cuts students' jail terms for "blasphemous"
play
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - Iran's appeal court has cut to one year jail
terms of three years handed down to two out of four students sentenced
for publishing an allegedly blasphemous play in a university magazine,
a judicial source said Monday >>>
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* Head of conservative Keyhan newspaper appears on trial
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - The head of an Iranian conservative daily appeared
before a press court Monday to answer 27 charges facing his newspaper,
in a shift from trials that have so far involved only Iran's moderate press.
Hossein Shariatmadari, appointed head of the Kayhan publishing group by
Iran's religious leader Ali Khamenei, must answer to a series of charges
that include insulting, defaming and publishing state secrets, and lies
aimed at disturbing public opinion >>>
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* Iran dailies in court over dissident interview
TEHRAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iran's conservative-led Press Court on Sunday
summoned representatives of leading reformist newspapers for questioning
after publication of remarks by dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali
Montazeri. The dailies published excerpts on Saturday of a transcript,
provided by Montazeri's office, of a joint interview the ayatollah gave
earlier to Reuters and the British newspaper The Guardian >>>
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* Iran seized 235 tonnes of drugs in 1999
TEHRAN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Iranian police seized more than 235 tonnes
of various illicit drugs last year and killed 740 traffickers in armed
clashes, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Sobh-e Emrouz newspaper quoted
a top anti-narcotics official as saying the drugs were seized in 975 operations
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* Iran slams attack on Egypt-Iran friendship association
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - The Iranian foreign ministry Monday slammed an
attack against the office of the Egypt-Iran friendship association saying
it was "illegal and intolerable." "We deplore this attack"
against an association "which is working actively to bring the two
countries closer together," ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told
the official news agency IRNA. "Such actions are illegal and intolerable."
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* Khatami says Persian Gulf will always be Persian
BANDAR ABBAS, Iran, Jan 18 (AFP) - The Gulf will always be Persian and
that is history's verdict, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday
as he started a three-day visit to the Gulf port of Bandar Abbas. "The
description is not a simple word, but reflects an historic truth, which
relates to the glorious history and the great people of Iran," Khatami
said, speaking in front of tens of thousands of people. The president said
the Gulf's Persian character was "history's verdict" >>> FULL TEXT
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January 17, 2000
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