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Friday
June 16, 2000
Government issues warnings to six film magazines
TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - Six Iranian film magazines have received warnings
after they published pictures of actors from before the Islamic Revolution,
a state cultural official told the conservative newspaper Kayhan on Thursday
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Iran censors leading French publications for "pornography"
TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - The Iranian authorities have censored copies
of the French newspaper Le Monde and the magazine L'Express over the past
few weeks after judging reproductions of some French artwork pornographic.
After receiving complaints from subscribers, the mail delivery service
TNT launched an investigation and said the publications had been censored
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Index
* Government issues warnings to six
film magazines
* Iran censors leading French publications
for "pornography"
* Tehran to hold second round of elections
June 30
* Tehran radio reports clash with MKO inside
Iran
* Iran makes huge drug seizure, arrests
176 smugglers
* Crime on rise along Iran-Afghanistan
border
* Khatami seen installing more liberal
cabinet
* Ex U.S. defense sec urges end to Iran
sanctions
* French consular official in Tehran recalled
* Kharrazi to visit Switzerland
* Majlis selects Karrubi as speaker
* CIA, FBI say Iran defector is impostor
-Wash Post
* Former hostage in Iran dies at 65
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Thursday
June 15, 2000
Tehran to hold second round of elections June 30
TEHRAN, June 15 (AFP) - The second round of elections for two of the
capital's seats in the parliament will take place June 30, more than four
months after the first round of voting, Iranian television said Thursday.
All four candidates for the seats are reformers allied with President Mohammed
Khatami: Rasul Montajabnia, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-Pur, Elias Hazrati and
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Tehran radio reports clash with MKO inside Iran
TEHRAN, June 15 (AFP) - Iranian forces clashed late Wednesday with the
armed opposition People's Mujahadeen just inside the border with Iraq,
Tehran radio reported Thursday >>>
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Iran makes huge drug seizure, arrests 176 smugglers
TEHRAN, June 15 (AFP) - Nearly two tonnes of morphine-based drugs have
been seized and 176 smugglers arrested in the central Iranian Province
of Yazd, the official IRNA news agency said Wednesday. Provincial narcotics
forces announced that "the shipments were in transit" to other
provinces and totaled 1.7 tonnes, IRNA said >>>
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Crime on rise along Iran-Afghanistan border
TEHRAN, June 15 (AFP) - Crime, including kidnappings, is on the rise
in Khorassan, an Iranian province along the border with Afghanistan and
a major crossing-point in the international drug trade, residents say.
In the border village of Ali-Abad, four people were recently kidnapped,
released only after their families paid 14,000 dollars to the hostage-takers
from Afghanistan, said village resident Reza Gholami >>>
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Wednesday
June 14, 2000
Khatami seen installing more liberal cabinet
Ex U.S. defense sec urges end to Iran sanctions
TEHRAN, June 14 (AFP) - Political circles are buzzing with rumors that
reformist President Mohammad Khatami will reshuffle his cabinet within
a week to install a more liberal team, a source close to the government
said. Reformers are also seen pushing for a quick remodeling of the recently
passed and highly restrictive press law and for the liberation of political
prisoners >>>
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Ex U.S. defense sec urges end to Iran sanctions
CALGARY, June 14 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Defence Secretary Dick Cheney
called for an end to investment sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, saying
American energy companies should be allowed to operate there along with
those from the rest of the world. Cheney, now chief executive of the world's
largest oil field service company Halliburton Co, said relations between
the two countries were ``a tragedy'', and that it was time to put such
crises as Iran's taking of U.S. hostages two decades ago, behind them >>> FULL
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Tuesday
June 13, 2000
French consular official in Tehran recalled
TEHRAN, June 13 (AFP) - French authorities have decided to recall a
consular official working at their embassy in Tehran after several hundred
visas were issued "irregularly," ambassador Philippe de Suremain
said Tuesday. "We noticed that some 370 visas were acquired irregularly,
mainly via shady middle-men. We decided to recall the man in charge of
issuing visas," the diplomat told AFP >>>
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Kharrazi to visit Switzerland
GENEVA, June 13 (AFP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi was to
arrive in the Swiss capital Bern Wednesday for a one-day working visit
designed to "deepen bilateral relations" between the two countries,
the Swiss foreign ministry announced >>>
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Monday
June 12, 2000
Majlis selects Karrubi as speaker
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A one-time hard-liner and veteran revolutionary
who now favors democratic reforms was elected Sunday as the speaker of
Iran's first reformist-dominated parliament in more than 20 years. Mehdi
Karrubi was elected unopposed in a compromise between hard-liners and moderates
who said they wanted to avoid further tension at a time when the two factions
are locked in a power struggle >>>
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CIA, FBI say Iran defector is impostor -Wash Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iranian defector who said he could prove Iran
was responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing has been exposed
by the CIA and FBI as an impostor, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
The man, who had given his name as Ahmad Behbahani and said he was a former
Iranian intelligence officer, had told an associate producer of the ``60
Minutes'' CBS television program that he had documents showing Tehran was
behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie
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Former hostage in Iran dies at 65
HOMOSASSA, Fla. (AP) - Bert C. Moore, a foreign service officer who
was one of the 52 Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran from
1979 to 1981, died of cancer Thursday. He was 65
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