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Friday
June 2, 2000
* Years after his death, Khomeini still omnipresent in Iran
TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - The image is still replayed every night on the
TV news. The frail old man, held for support by a steward from Air France,
makes his triumphant return to Iran to proclaim the Islamic Republic.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died June 3, 1989, some 10 years after he returned
from exile in France and signaled the end of the Shah's pro-US regime >>> FULL
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* UN chief says he hopes Hezbollah will help keep south Lebanon calm
UNITED NATIONS, June 2 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has told
Iran that he hopes the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement will help to maintain
calm in southern Lebanon, Annan's spokesman said Thursday. Clarifying
reports from Tehran, spokesman Fred Eckhard said "he believes Hezbollah
has a role to play in keeping southern Lebanon calm and peaceful."
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* Six Iranians arrested in Russia trying to sneak into Japan
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, June 2 (AFP) - Russian security forces Friday arrested
six Iranians at the far-eastern port of Nakhodka for trying to enter Japan
illegally, local authorities said >>>
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Index
* Years after his death, Khomeini still
omnipresent in Iran
* UN chief says he hopes Hezbollah will help keep south Lebanon
calm
* Six Iranians arrested in Russia trying to sneak into Japan
* Religion meets politics in Khatami death
plan
* Iran, Czech republic seek to remove strains in relations
* Veteran Iran revolutionary dies in car crash
* Fatwa plan to kill Khatami
* Reformers are in majority, but not completely in control
* Four reformers proclaimed winners
* Karrunbi elected Majlis Speaker
* Freedom Movement calls on Khatami to form new cabinet
* MKO mortar blasts rock East Tehran, none hurt
* Former Revolutionary Guards naval commander shot dead
* Rafsanjani more threat to reformers outside
than inside parliament
* Dutch FM to make first Tehran visit since 1979 revolution
* Iran celebrates Hezbollah feat over Israel with sweets,
cakes
* Tehran holds funeral for 300 soldiers killed in war with
Iraq
* Reformists prepare to take legislative control
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Thursday
June 1, 2000
* Religion meets politics in Khatami death plan
Tehran (Reuter) - The recent uncovering of a plan to assassinate moderate
Iranian President Mohammed Khatami has opened a rare window on the murky
world where religion and political violence intersect in the Islamic Republic.
News of the plan was made public earlier this week when a prominent conservative
politician said a member of the elite Revolutionary Guards unit assigned
to protect the president had planned to kill Khatami >>>
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* Iran, Czech republic seek to remove strains in relations
TEHRAN, June 1 (AFP) - Iran and the Czech republic are trying to improve
ties strained over Prague's broadcasts of "anti-Iranian propaganda"
and its ban on exports to an Iranian nuclear power plant, the IRNA news
agency said Thursday. "We must take steps against obstacles to a thaw
in our diplomatic relations," Iranian Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi
was quoted by IRNA as saying during a visit here by Czech Deputy Foreign
Minister Hynec Kmonicek >>>
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* Veteran Iran revolutionary dies in car crash
TEHRAN, June 1 (Reuters) - A veteran Iranian revolutionary and former
member of parliament died in a car accident on Thursday, state radio reported.
Ali Akbar Aboutorabi, a veteran of the 1980-1988 war against Iraq, died
along with his father when their car crashed into a trailer truck near
Mashhad, a city in northeastern Iran >>> FULL
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Wednesday
May 31, 2000
* Fatwa plan to kill Khatami
Geneive Abdo in Tehran
The Guardian (London)
Wednesday May 31, 2000
A plan to dispose of Iran's moderate president by clerically authorised
murder has been foiled. The would-be assassin was a member of the presidential
bodyguard and of the elite Revolutionary Guard who tried to convince senior
clerics to issue an edict allowing him to kill President Mohammad Khatami
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* Reformers are in majority, but not completely in control
TEHRAN, May 31 (AFP) - Reformers were the grand victors in Iran's parliamentary
elections, but despite the overwhelming support they enjoy among voters,
they have had to ally themselves in parliament with former radicals who
are backed by the Islamic clergy. The pro-reform Islamic Iran Participation
Front (IIPF) -- led by Mohammad-Reza Khatami, the deputy who is brother
of reformist President Mohammad Khatami -- holds some 150 seats in the
290-member parliament >>>
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* Four reformers proclaimed winners
TEHRAN, May 31 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated election watchdog
body, the Council of Guardians, confirmed Wednesday the victories of four
more reformers in the May 5 round of parliamentary voting, Iranian television
said >>>
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Tuesday
May 30, 2000
* Karrunbi elected Majlis Speaker
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Parliament on Tuesday elected a reform leader
known for his fiery criticism of the United States as its temporary speaker,
the country's third most powerful post. Mehdi Karrubi, a former hard-liner
who was an aide to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, won 186 votes
from the 252 deputies who attended Tuesday's Parliament session, state-run
Tehran radio said >>>
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* Freedom Movement calls on Khatami to form new cabinet
TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - An unauthorised Iranian reformist party Tuesday
called on President Mohammed Khatami to replace his cabinet in order to
lift restrictions on the press and intellectuals, following the inauguration
Saturday of a new reformist-dominated parliament. "President Khatami
must choose new ministers, because the leaders have shown an inability
to respond to the needs of the people," said the banned but largely
tolerated Iran Freedom Movement (IFM) in a release >>>
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* MKO mortar blasts rock East Tehran, none hurt
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Four mortars struck the east of Tehran but
there were no reports of injuries or damage, state radio said Tuesday.
The Iranian armed opposition Mujahideen Khalq, based in Iraq, claimed responsibility
for the mortar attack >>>
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* Former Revolutionary Guards naval commander shot dead
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - A former senior official of Iran's Revolutionary
Guards has been shot dead by a retired man who later surrendered to police,
the Iranian news agency IRNA reported Tuesday. It said Rear Adm. Abdollah
Roudaki, a commander of the Guards' naval forces during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq
war, was killed late Monday >>>
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Monday
May 29, 2000
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