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Friday
Ocotber 6, 2000
Khatami to visit Japan
TOKYO, Oct 6 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will make a
four-day visit to Japan from October 31 to November 3 to hold talks with
Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, the foreign ministry said Friday. During the
first official visit by the Iranian president to Japan, Mori is expected
to give support to the Iranian leader's government reform efforts >>> FULL TEXT
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Spanish PM to visit Iran in October
MADRID, Oct 6 (AFP) - Spain's Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar will make
a two-day official trip to Vietnam in mid-October before moving on to Iran
for the first visit by a Spanish head of state, his spokesman said Thursday.
Aznar will be in Hanoi from October 18 to 19 where he will hold talks with
among others his Vietnamese counterpart Phan Van Khai and with President
Tran Duc Luong, his office said >>>
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US defends record on Russian weapons technology exports to Iran
WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (AFP) - The Clinton administration on Thursday defended
its record in trying to prevent Russian weapons technology from reaching
Iran. Under questioning from Republican senators, Robert Einhorn, the assistant
secretary of state for nonproliferation, said the administration had "faced
this issue quite squarely" and "made some progress" in its
attempts to stem the flow of arms and materials to Iran from Rusian companies
and individuals >>>
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* Khatami to visit Japan
* Spanish PM to visit Iran in October
* US defends record on Russian weapons technology exports
to Iran
* Iranians join Mideast protests
* Conservative press adds to criticism of Arafat
* Iran missile program still a threat
* German Chancellor Schroeder to visit Iran in 2001
* Jahangard fails to get Majlis' vote of
confidence
* Mohajerani to quit after conservative pressure
* Iraq seeks Iranian air space
* Iran to fight satellite programmes with private TV network
* Reformist Culture minister resigns: press
* Khamenei calls on Islamic countries to "support the
Palestinians"
* Khatami wraps up Cuba visit; bilateral accords signed
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Thursday
October 5, 2000
Iranians join Mideast protests
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Chanting slogans against Israel and the United States
and calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, some 10,000 people
took to the streets of Tehran on Thursday to protest the deaths of scores
of Palestinians in clashes with Israeli security forces. ``The only way
left for the liberation of Palestine is resistance and jihad (holy war)
against the Zionist occupation,'' parliament speaker Mahdi Karrubi told
the demonstrators in the Iranian capital's Palestine Square >>>
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Conservative press adds to criticism of Arafat
TEHRAN, Oct 5 (AFP) - The conservative Iranian press on Thursday added
to the growing criticism of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat following
the latest Middle East violence which has left more than 70 people dead.
Arafat, who held emergency talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Paris, is doing nothing
but "making himself and his people suffer utter humiliation,"
the Kayhan International daily said >>>
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Iran missile program still a threat
WASHINGTON (AP) - Iran is continuing work to develop nuclear missiles,
but U.S. efforts to cut Russian help have met some success, Clinton administration
officials said Thursday. The assessment by CIA (news - web sites) and State
Department witnesses came at a hearing called by Republicans partly to
highlight Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites)'s role in what they
consider U.S. policy failures involving Russia >>>
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Wednesday
October 4, 2000
German Chancellor Schroeder to visit Iran in 2001
Ocotber 3, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
plans to visit Teheran next spring, Iran 's Economics Minister Hossein
Namazi said Tuesday. ``We look forward to the visit of the German chancellor
to Teheran. There is no exact date fixed yet although the visit is planned
before the presidential elections in Iran ,'' Namazi said >>>
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Tuesday
October 3, 2000
Jahangard fails to get Majlis' vote of confidence
Tehran, Oct 3, IRNA -- Nasrollah Jahangard, the candidate proposed by
President Mohammad Khatami to head the Ministry of Post, Telegraph and
Telephones (PTT), failed on Tuesday to receive the confidence vote from
Majlis >>>
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Mohajerani to quit after conservative pressure
TEHRAN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - An Iranian reformist minister, long under
siege by hardline conservatives who consider him too liberal, has handed
in his resignation to President Mohammad Khatami, a government official
told Reuters on Tuesday. But Khatami has told Minister of Culture and Islamic
Guidance Ataollah Mohajerani he must re-draft and moderate his 50-page
resignation before it can be accepted, said the source, who declined to
be named >>>
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Iraq seeks Iranian air space
The Iraqi transport minister is visiting Teheran to seek permission
to use Iranian air space for regular flights to and from Moscow. Relations
between Iran and Iraq, badly strained since their eight-year war in the
1980s, have recently shown signs of a thaw >>>
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Iran to fight satellite programmes with private TV network
October 2, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - Iran plans to fight foreign satellite
programmes with the establishment of a private television network, the
daily Tehran Times reported Monday. Head of state-run broadcasting, Ali
Larijani, has written a letter to the senate-like Guardian Council asking
the conservative body about the possibility of setting up a private television
network, the daily said >>>
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Monday
October 2, 2000
Reformist Culture minister resigns: press
TEHRAN, Oct 2 (AFP) - Iranian newspapers reported Monday for the second
time in a week that reformist Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Ataollah
Mohajerani, bane of the conservative faction, had resigned. Ahmad Borghani,
a former press department head at the ministry, told the centrist daily
Khorassan, "Mohajerani has resigned. The president has accepted."
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Khamenei calls on Islamic countries to "support the Palestinians"
TEHRAN, Oct 2 (AFP) - Iran will always support the Palestinians and
all Muslim countries should do so, Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei said Sunday, after a fourth day of clashes between Israeli troops
and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "The only solution
to the current conflict is to continue the jihad (holy war) against the
enemies of Islam, and that will not stop," he said >>>
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Khatami wraps up Cuba visit; bilateral accords signed
HAVANA, Oct 2 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami wrapped up
a visit to Cuba Sunday, amid praise in the state-controlled press for his
commitment to co-operation among the world's developing countries. The
Communist Party newspaper Granma said 15 bilateral co-operation accords
were signed during Khatami's visit, and another nine are under negotiation.
It did not provide further details >>>
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