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Friday
July 7, 2000
Iranians protest at German consulate
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Iranian opposition activists took control
of part of the German consulate here for five hours Friday to protest a
planned visit to Germany by Iran's president, police said. Ten unarmed
Iranians moved into the consulate's visitors room and demanded that the
visit by President Mohammad Khatami, scheduled for next week, be called
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Students mark dormitory raid
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Students said Friday they will hand out flowers
in Tehran's streets and light candles to commemorate last year's bloody
raid on a university dormitory - a peaceful plan praised by a key hard-line
politician. ``I appreciate that the student groups have decided to commemorate
the anniversary in this way, which does not create any controversy,'' former
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani said during a Friday prayer sermon
at Tehran University >>>
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Opposition gears up to protest against Khatami visit
BERLIN, July 7 (AFP) - Iranian opponents of President Mohammad Khatami
are gearing up to mount a protest demonstration of 25,000 participants
for when he arrives in Berlin Monday, Iranian opposition leaders in exile
said Friday. Although top security measures will be in force to protect
the Iranian leader during his controversial three-day visit to Germany,
the chancellor's office said Friday the authorities could not prevent peaceful
protests >>>
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German government says Khatami trip still on despite planned protests
BERLIN, July 5 (AFP) - The German government insisted Friday that Iranian
President Mohammed Khatami's July 10-12 visit to Germany would go ahead,
despite protests by Iranian exiles and German deputies. "We do not
have any indication of a cancellation or a postponement of the visit of
President Khatami," German government spokesman, Uwe-Karsten Heye,
told AFP after a daily paper reported Khatami was having second thoughts
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Khatami: fighter for "Islamic democracy"
TEHRAN, July 7 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, who begins
an important visit to Germany on Monday, is apparently as popular today
as he was when he was elected three years ago. But his mission to open
up the Islamic republic has been set back time and again by the regime's
conservatives >>>
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* Iranians protest at German consulate
* Students mark dormitory raid
* Opposition gears up to protest against Khatami visit
* German government says Khatami trip
* Khatami: fighter for "Islamic democracy"
* Khatami prepares for Germany
* Germany steps up border security
* Confusion over German MP's opposition
* Clinton promises to work for release of
jailed Jews
* Opposition mounts in Germany against Khatami's visit
* Iranian, Egyptian presidents to meet at UN
* Egypt, Iran have "strong desire" to improve relations
* Kuwait's FM to visit Iran soon for border talks
* Iran nixes new ties with Egypt
* Jordan's Queen Rania arrives in Tehran
* Clinton 'deeply disturbed' by Iran Jews sentences
* European Jews and Chirac call for release of jailed Jews
* Britain "concerned" over conviction of Iranian
Jews
* Israel's Barak Calls for Release of Iranian Jews
* Arab papers slam foreign criticism of Iran spy trial
* Two reformists win in Tehran run-off elections
* Iran announces five new ballistic missile units
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Thursday
July 6, 2000
Khatami prepares for Germany
TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's office has
confirmed that he will travel to Berlin on July 10-12, his first visit
to Germany since his election in 1997, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Khatami is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and President
Johannes Rau, as well as several high-ranking German officials for talks
on bilateral relations, IRNA said >>>
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Germany steps up border security
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Germany will reimpose controls along its borders
to screen out members of Iranian opposition groups who may try to disrupt
next week's visit by Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, officials said
Thursday. The Interior Ministry said it has received ``serious tips'' that
Iranian opposition groups, including some based outside Germany, are planning
disturbances during Khatami's visit on July 10-12 - the first by an Iranian
leader to Germany since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution >>>
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Confusion over reported protest by German MPs over Khatami visit
July 5, 2000, Berlin (dpa) - At a news briefing organised by the National
Resistance Council of Iran - which is dominated by the Iraqi-based People's
Mujahedin - a member of Germany's parliament, Arne Fuhrmann, said the protest
had been signed by 175 members of the Bundestag, the German lower house.
But the list of signatories was not presented at the news briefing. A spokeswoman
for Fuhrmann - who is a member of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's
Social Democrats - later said the petition was being organised by the National
Resistance Council >>>
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Clinton promises to work for release of jailed Iranian Jews
WASHINGTON, July 6 (AFP) - President Bill Clinton told US Jewish leaders
Wednesday that he would work to win the release of 10 Iranian Jews, imprisoned
on charges of spying for Israel, the community leaders said after a White
House meeting. Clinton said he would "try to mobilize leaders in Europe,
Russia, Japan and other countries that have closer ties with Iran to work
together with the United States to secure the release of these innocent
people," said Malcolm Hoenlein, of the Conference of Presidents of
major American Jewish organizations >>>
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Wednesday
July 5, 2000
Opposition mounts in Germany against president Khatami's visit
BERLIN, July 5 (AFP) - Opposition mounted sharply Wednesday to a visit
to Germany by Iranian President Mohammed Khatami set for next week, when
national and regional parliamentary members called for its cancellation
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Iranian, Egyptian presidents to meet at UN in New York: press
TEHRAN, July 4 (AFP) - The Iranian and Egyptian presidents agreed to
meet in September during the UN General Assembly in New York, in a further
sign of improving relations, an Iranian newspaper report said Tuesday >>> FULL
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Egypt, Iran have "strong desire" to improve relations:
MP
CAIRO, July 5 (AFP) - Egypt and Iran have a "strong desire"
to improve their relations and there are no big hurdles to clear, a senior
Iranian parliament official said Wednesday on a visit to Cairo >>> FULL TEXT
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Kuwait's FM to visit Iran soon for border talks
KUWAIT CITY, July 4 (AFP) - Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad
al-Sabah said Tuesday he will visit Tehran soon for talks on demarcating
the sea border after the kingdom sealed a maritime border agreement with
Saudi Arabia >>>
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Monday
July 3, 2000
Iran nixes new ties with Egypt
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian-Egyptian communications have improved considerably,
but formal restoration of diplomatic ties is not imminent, Iran's Foreign
Ministry spokesman said Sunday. ``Relations are very different from what
they were in the past. However, reports appearing in the media that the
two countries will establish diplomatic relations soon are not accurate,''
state-run Tehran radio quoted Hamid-Reza Asefi as saying
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Jordan's Queen Rania arrives in Tehran
TEHRAN, July 3 (AFP) - Jordan's Queen Rania arrived in Tehran Monday
for an official two-day visit at the invitation of Iran's first lady, President
Mohammad Khatami's wife Zohreh Sadeghi. On arrival, the Jordanian queen
was welcomed at the presidential pavilion by Sadeghi and other officials
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Clinton 'deeply disturbed' by Iran Jews sentences
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton said on Saturday he was ``deeply
disturbed'' by an Iranian court's decision to sentence 10 Iranian Jews
to prison terms on charges of spying for Israel. Clinton, in a written
statement, said it was clear the Jews were not accorded due process of
law and that the judicial proceedings by an Iranian Revolutionary Court
were ``seriously flawed.'' >>>
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European Jews and Chirac call for release of jailed Iranian Jews
PARIS, July 2 (AFP) - The European Jewish Congress (EJC) Sunday requested
a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac to lobby European Union
(EU) support for the release of 10 Iranian Jews by Iran for alleged spying.
EJC president Henri Hajdenberg also intends handing a petition to Chirac,
whose country currently holds the EU presidency, signed by "tens of
thousands" of people demanding the release of the prisoners, said
a statement by the Congress released Sunday >>>
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Britain "concerned" over conviction of Iranian Jews
LONDON, July 1 (AFP) - Britain reacted with concern to the controversial
conviction Saturday of 10 Iranian Jews on spying charges, and said it would
raise its unhappiness via its ambassador in Tehran. A Foreign Office spokesman
said the government was "deeply concerned" at the sentences >>> FULL
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Israel's Barak Calls for Release of Iranian Jews
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said Sunday it would spare no effort to
bring about the release of 10 Iranian Jews sentenced to prison for their
part in an alleged Israeli spy ring in Iran. Prime Minister Ehud Barak
told Israel's cabinet that he would ask the international community to
lobby Tehran to free the Jews, who were sentenced to between four and 13
years in prison on charges of spying for Israel >>>
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Arab papers slam foreign criticism of Iran spy trial
DUBAI, July 3 (Reuters) - Newspapers in two Gulf Arab states have slammed
Western criticism of the verdicts in the Jewish spy trial in Iran and lauded
what they said was a fair judicial process. Editorials in newspapers in
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since Saturday's verdict voiced
rare support for Iran by its Gulf Arab neighbours, who are key Western
allies in the oil-rich region >>>
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Two reformists win in Tehran run-off elections
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Two reformists who narrowly missed winning seats
in Iran's legislative elections in February have won run-off elections
in Tehran, state-run Iranian radio reported Saturday. The election of Elias
Hazrati and Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pour slightly boosts the pro-reform majority
in the 290-seat parliament, or Majlis. Mohtashami-Pour is the publisher
of the reformist newspaper Bayan, one of 19 pro-reform newspapers shut
down by hard-liners in the past three months >>>
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Iran announces formation of five new ballistic missile units
TEHRAN, July 2 (AFP) - The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards
announced Sunday the formation of five ballistic missile units that will
help keep Iran "among the region's military powers." >>> FULL TEXT
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