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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) >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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
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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEX

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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