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Friday
June 23, 2000
Khatami cautions against globalization and unipolar dominance
BEIJING, June 23 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, on the
second day of a five-day visit to China, called Friday for an "Asian
convergence" aimed at standing up to Western dominance and its "current
process of globalization." Speaking to students at China's prestigious
Beijing University, Khatami said that as two of the world's greatest civilizations,
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Guardian Council cancel election result
TEHRAN, June 23 (AFP) - The conservative-dominated Guardians Council
has annulled the parliamentary election victory of a pro-reform candidate
in western Iran, the official IRNA news agency said Friday. The council,
which supervises elections, overturned the selection of Khaled Tavakoli
to represent Saqqez and Baneh in the western province of Kurdistan "for
various reasons," the agency said >>>
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Iran says it killed seven MKO guerrillas
TEHRAN, June 23 (AFP) - Iranian security forces killed seven members
of the armed opposition group, People's Mujahedeen, and wounded several
others in recent days in western Iran, state television announced Thursday,
citing the intelligence ministry. "Seven mercenaries were killed and
several others wounded in three engagements as they tried to infiltrate
Iran," a ministry communique said >>>
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Iran denies responsibility for Iraqi blast
TEHRAN, June 22 (AFP) - The Iranian government said Thursday that it
had nothing to do with a recent car bomb attack in Iraq that Baghdad says
killed an Iranian intelligence officer and three others. "The Islamic
Republic of Iran is not at all connected to this incident and completely
rejects the Iraqi accusations," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza
Asefi was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying >>>
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Index
* Khatami cautions against globalization
and unipolar dominance
* Guardian Council cancel election result
* Iran says it killed seven MKO guerrillas
* Iran denies responsibility for Iraqi
blast
* Iranian, Egyptian presidents talk
* Iraq blames Iran for rocket plans
* Khatami to visit troubled Xinjiang region
on China trip
* Khatami visits China to build on already
strong ties
* U.S. general says Iran still a threat
despite reform
* Blast rocks southern Iranian university
* Iran no loner 'rogue state': U.S.
* Khatami to go to Germany early July
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Thursday
June 22, 2000
Iranian, Egyptian presidents talk
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Iranian and Egyptian presidents spoke by telephone
in the first direct contact between the leaders of the two states since
the time of Iran's Islamic revolution, the official Iranian news agency
reported. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak congratulated Mohammad Khatami
on Iran's accession to the G-15 group of nations, the Islamic Republic
News Agency said Wednesday
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Iraq blames Iran for rocket plans
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Four men, including an Iranian intelligence officer,
were killed in Baghdad early this month while preparing to fire six rockets
at targets in the city, said a security statement released Thursday. The
General Directorate of the Security said the men were preparing a car to
be used as a rocket launcher when it accidentally exploded. Iraq accused
Iran of planning the attack >>>
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Wednesday
June 21, 2000
Khatami to visit troubled Xinjiang region on China trip
BEIJING, June 21 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is to visit
Xinjiang during this week's visit to China despite Beijing's nervousness
over armed separatism in the western Moslem-majority region. Diplomatic
sources in Beijing said Khatami would visit the Grand Mosque in the western-most
town of Kashgar during his trip to the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
which is home to half China's 20 million Moslems >>>
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Tuesday
June 20, 2000
Khatami visits China to build on already strong ties
TEHRAN, June 20 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami arrives in
China on Thursday for a six-day state visit, his first since being elected
in 1997, with plans to strengthen the two countries' already close political,
economic and military ties. The length of Khatami's stay and the make-up
of his entourage demonstrate the importance attached to the trip >>> FULL TEXT
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U.S. general says Iran still a threat despite reform
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. forces in the Gulf said
Tuesday that Iran remained a threat to the oil-rich region despite political
reforms inside the country. ``We are hopeful that there is change taking
place in Iran. We certainly think it would be best for the region if the
moderates continue to gain and to control the path that Iran is taking,''
General Anthony Zinni told reporters in Abu Dhabi >>>
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Blast rocks southern Iranian university
TEHRAN, June 20 (Reuters) - A blast rocked the university campus in
the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on Tuesday, but there were no immediate
reports of injury, local journalists said. They told Reuters by telephone
the explosion occurred in a lecture hall at the college of literature,
scene on June 17 of an address by a prominent Islamic modernist who has
often been the target of hardline violence >>>
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Monday
June 19, 2000
Iran no loner 'rogue state': U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran, Libya and North Korea are rogues no longer,
the State Department has decided. Now they're just ``states of concern'',
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in a radio interview. ``Some
of those countries aren't as bad as they used to be >>>
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Khatami to go to Germany early July
TEHRAN, June 19 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will make
a state visit to Germany, Iran's leading trade partner, at the beginning
of July, an official said Monday >>>
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