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June 5-9, 2000 / Khordad 16-20, 1379
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Friday
June 9, 2000
Factional make-up of new Majlis
BBC Monitoring, source: Hamshahri -- The followings are estimates of
the number of seats held by various groups in the Majlis based on the election
of the interim Majlis presidium: Iran 's Partnership Front Party has 77
seats (30 per cent of votes), Militant Clerics Society 67 seats (27 per
cent of the votes), the right-wing faction 60 seats (20.6 per cent of votes),
[Islamic] Labour [Party] 20 seats (7.7 per cent of votes), the independent
[Majlis deputies] 20 seats (7.7 per cent of votes), the Servants of Construction
Party 15 seats (5.6 per cent) >>>
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Rafsanjani condemns "western media conspiracy" over Lockerbie
revelations
TEHRAN, June 9 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
accused the western media Wednesday of being behind the "repugnant
story" of an Iranian who claimed to have been involved in the planning
of the Lockerbie airliner bombing of 1988. "You have seen what this
media mafia is capable of. In such a short space of time, they have created
a scandal and a repugnant story on the basis of claims by a criminal who
claims to have planned the Lockerbie attack," said Rafsanjani >>> FULL
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Cairo-Tehran ties still not thawed
June 8, CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Only a handful of the hundreds of tourists
who flock daily to the 19th century Al-Rifa'i mosque in the Medieval part
of Cairo bother to step inside the remote room housing the tomb of Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi. The scarcely visited white marble tomb, the final resting
place of the deposed shah of Iran , also is a monument to two decades of
the poisoned relations between Egypt and Iran >>>
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Index
* Factional make-up of new Majlis
* Rafsanjani condemns "western media
conspiracy"
* Cairo-Tehran ties still not thawed
* Turkish president's absence overshadows
Iran summit
* Pakistan's Musharraf to leave for Iran
on Friday
* Guardian Council says reformists won nine
more seats
* Turkey snubs Iran over ECO summit
* Women MPs form working group
* President Khatami calls for merciless
war on drugs
* CIA finds holes in story blaming Iran
for Lockerbie
* Iran dismisses Lockerbie bomb claim
* Report: Iran opens sea lanes to illegal
Iraqi oil
* U.S. still backs Iran dialogue
* Iran terrror link probe
* Iran slams US over attempts to fingerprint women
* Ayatollah Khamenei's call for
Palestine's liberation
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Thursday
June 8, 2000
Turkish president's absence overshadows Iran summit
TEHRAN, June 8 (AFP) - The absence of Turkish President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer is expected to weigh on proceedings at a summit of the regional Economic
Cooperation Organisation (ECO) which opens here Saturday, at a time of
tension between Tehran and Ankara. Iran, Turkey and Pakistan were founder
members of the organisation back in 1985, with the aim of establishing
a "Muslim common market" with cooperation and regional discussion
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Pakistan's Musharraf to leave for Iran on Friday
ISLAMABAD, Jun 8 (AFP) - Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf
will leave for Iran on Friday to attend a summit of the 10-nation Economic
Cooperation Organization (ECO), a foreign office statement said. The two-day
summit, opening on Saturday, will discuss proposals for the expansion of
trade and communications among its member states >>>
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Wednesday
June 7, 2000
Guardian Council says reformists won nine more parliamentary seats
TEHRAN, June 7 (AFP) - Iran's Council of Guardians, the conservative
body which oversees elections, Wednesday validated a further nine seats
from May's second round of parliamentary elections, giving all of them
to reformists. The latest results raised to 211 the number of reformists
so far known to have won seats in the 290-seat body >>>
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Turkey snubs Iran over ECO summit, wants answers on radical Islamists
ANKARA, June 7 (AFP) - Turkey said Wednesday that President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer would not attend the summit in Tehran of the 10-member Economic Cooperation
Organisation as Ankara informed Iran on a radical Islamist group which
it believes is backed by its eastern neighbour. At a news conference in
Ankara, Turkish Minister of State Mehmet Kececiler said that the president's
busy agenda would prevent him going to Iran and that he himself would instead
represent Turkey at the summit, which opens Saturday >>>
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Women MPs form working group
TEHRAN, June 7 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament has formed its first women's
working group since the Islamic revolution in 1979, according to press
reports Wednesday. "We held our first formal meeting on Monday",
said Tahereh Rezazadeh, reformist MP from the southern city of Shiraz >>> FULL
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President Khatami calls for merciless war on drugs
TEHRAN, June 7 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami traveled to
a major drug crossing-point along the Afghan border Wednesday to call for
a merciless war against the narcotics trade in eastern Iran. The trip to
Taibad also marks the first by a high-ranking member of Iran's Shiite Muslim
leadership to this majority-Sunnite region since the 1979 Islamic Revolution
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Tuesday
June 6, 2000
CIA finds holes in story blaming Iran for Lockerbie bombing: report
WASHINGTON, June 6 (AFP) - CIA agents have found "a lot of holes"
in claims by an Iranian defector that Iran, not Libya, was behind the 1988
bombing of a Pam Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Washington Post
reported Tuesday. CIA agents have been questioning Ahmad Behbahani for
the past several days in Turkey, where he is being held after defecting
from Iran, a senior US intelligence official told the newspapers >>> FULL TEXT
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Iran dismisses Lockerbie bomb claim
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence chief has dismissed charges
from an alleged defector that the Islamic Republic was behind the 1988
Lockerbie aircraft bombing, the official IRNA news agency said late Monday.
Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi denied claims by the defector, named by
a U.S. television network as Ahmad Behbahani, that Iran trained a group
of Libyans to carry out the bombing of the U.S. airliner, which killed
270 people when it exploded over Scotland >>>
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Report: Iran opens sea lanes to illegal Iraqi oil
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has opened its protected sea lanes to dozens
of tankers carrying illegal shipments of Iraqi oil in violation of U.N.
sanctions, Tuesday's Los Angeles Times reported U.S. officials as saying.
The Times, in a report from Tehran, said the Clinton administration considers
the unexpected reversal of policy alarming because oil smuggling is Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein's only major source of independent income >>>
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Monday
June 5, 2000
* U.S. still backs Iran dialogue
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department said Monday it continues to support
an official dialogue with Iran despite new allegations that Iran was responsible
for the attack on Pan Am flight 103 that killed 270 persons in 1988 >>>
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* Iran terrror link probe
June 5, BBC -- A man claiming to be a senior Iranian intelligence service
defector has been questioned in Turkey after saying he has information
about Iranian involvement in acts of international terrorism >>>
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* Iran slams US over attempts to fingerprint women delegates to UN
forum
TEHRAN, June 5 (AFP) - Iran on Monday denounced attempts by USimmigration
officials to fingerprint a group of Iranian women upon theirarrival in
New York last week to attend a UN conference. "This is new proof of
the contradictory behaviour and statements of USofficials, particularly
when they speak about expanding cultural relationswith Iran," said
foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi
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* Ayatollah Khamenei's call for Palestine's liberation
TEHRAN, June 3 (AFP) - Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei called Saturdayfor
"Palestine's liberation" in a speech to hundreds of thousands
of Iraniansvisiting the tomb of the Islamic republic's founder on the 11th
anniversaryof his death. Ayatollah Khamenei, disciple and successor of
the founder, AyatollahRuhollah Khomeini, predicted that Israel will withdraw
from Palestinianterritory as it did from Lebanon May 24 and also appealed
for an end topolitical strife inside Iran >>>
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