email us

Sehaty Foreign Exchange

Iranian books

News
October 16-19, 2000 / Mehr 25-28, 1379

Sports | Arts | Business| Rights | Community

POLITICAL & OTHER NEWS INDEX

Index

* Iran minister waiting Khatami reply to resignatio
* U.S. senators to probe Gore arms pact with Russia
* Iran says no tangible result from Sharm el-Sheikh
* Spain's Aznar due in Tehran Saturday on official visit
* Khatami has little taste for second term, ally says
* Under-fire culture minister withdraws his resignation: MP
* Cleric releases religious monies for Palestinians
* Russian security chief hails growing ties with Iran
* Iranian relief convoy arrives in drought-hit Afghanistan
* Iran should review Islamabad ties: paper
* Car bomb blasts Iran mosque, injures several: TV
* Mideast summit deal greeted with relief and scorn
* Defence minister proposes oil pressure to back Palestinians
* Thousand new schools to be named after Palestinian "martyrs"
* Khatami invited to Russia

Sports | Arts | Business| Rights | Community


Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday


Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand


email us

Friday
Ocotber 20, 2000

NONE

INDEX

Thursday
October 19, 2000

Iran minister waiting Khatami reply to resignation

TEHRAN, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Iran's embattled minister of culture, accused by the conservative establishment of being too liberal, is still waiting for the president to accept his resignation, newspapers said on Thursday. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ataollah Mohajerani is a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami and his resignation would be a blow to the moderate president and his promised programme of reforms >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

U.S. senators to probe Gore arms pact with Russia

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans said on Thursday they will hold hearings next week to probe the legality of a recently disclosed deal struck by Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) with Moscow that Russia would not face U.S. sanctions if it completed delivery of certain arms shipments to Iran. News reports of the 1995 pact between Gore and former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin have prompted charges that the Clinton administration failed to seek penalties against Russia under a 1992 U.S. law barring such sales to Iran and other states seen as sponsors of terrorism >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Iran says no tangible result from Sharm el-Sheikh

TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said Wednesday the Sharm el-Sheikh summit on Middle East peace had had "no tangible result" and had raised "an enormous doubt" over the region's future. The meeting Monday and Tuesday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort "wound up with no tangible result. If the Israeli soldiers withdrew, it was to try and calm the Palestinian anger," the official news agency IRNA reported Kharazi as telling ambassadors from non-Muslim countries >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Spain's Aznar due in Tehran Saturday on official visit

TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is to arrive in Tehran this weekend on a two-day official visit, the first by a Spanish government leader since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a Spanish diplomat said Thursday. Aznar, who will be accompanied a delegation that includes 80 businessmen, will be traveling from Seoul, where he is to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting of heads of state >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Wednesday
October 18, 2000

Khatami has little taste for second term, ally says

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Iran's deputy speaker of parliament Behzad Nabavi said reformist President Mohammad Khatami may reconsider his decision to run for a second term, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday. "We are hopeful, but the president has not shown much enthusiasm" for a second term, Nabavi said, adding that he thought Khatami felt "further obstacles" would again be placed in the path of his reform programme >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Under-fire culture minister withdraws his resignation: MP

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - An Iranian MP said under-fire Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani has withdrawn his resignation, press reports said Wednesday, adding to the swirl of speculation around one of President Mohammad Khatami's closest allies. Mohammad Dadfar said Mohajerani, a hero to the reform movement and a regular target of conservative anger, had taken back a letter to Khatami stepping down from office, newspapers said >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Cleric releases religious monies for Palestinians

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - A top-ranking Iranian cleric has authorised theallocation of monies from religious funds to support the Palestinians, theofficial IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani said the decision had been made because "theusurper Israel, backed by the Great Satan (the United States), is sowickedly massacring Muslims." >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Russian security chief hails growing ties with Iran

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - The head of Russia's powerful advisory Security Council said here Wednesday that Moscow is determined to expand its relations with Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported. "There is a determination among Russian leaders to have strong relations with Iran on many fronts and we are serious about pursuing them," Sergei Ivanov said in a meeting with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Landmark Iranian relief convoy arrives in drought-hit Afghanistan

KABUL, Oct 18 (AFP) - The first aid convoy sent by Iran to the drought-stricken people of northwestern Afghanistan has arrived in the Afghan city of Herat, official sources said Wednesday. The 37-truck convoy was bearing food supplies including wheat flour and edible oil, as well as 500 blankets and 50 tents, the ruling Taliban militia's official daily Anis reported >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Iran should review Islamabad ties after death sentences reversed: paper

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Iran should review its relations with Pakistan,after that country's supreme court overturned a guilty verdict against eightSunni Muslims for the murder of an Iranian diplomat, a newspaperdemanded Wednesday. "The fact that the accused were found innocent after having earlier beensentenced to death is unacceptable to public opinion," the centrist dailyKhorassan said >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Tuesday
October 17, 2000

Car bomb blasts Iran mosque, injures several: TV

TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - A car bomb exploded overnight in a city of southeastern Iran, injuring several people and badly damaging a mosque, state television reported Tuesday. The provincial security council of Sistan-Baluchistan blamed US and Israeli agents trying to cause dissension between Muslims for the explosion in the provincial capital of Zahedan, where Sunnis are a majority unlike Iran as a whole >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Mideast summit deal greeted with relief and scorn

LONDON (Reuters) - Europe gave a guarded welcome to news of a summit deal Tuesday to end Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed that has jeopardized years of peacemaking, but Iran and most Arabs dismissed it as a travesty. Iran called the pact as ``an imposed peace that has given the Palestinians nothing,'' and its defense minister urged Islamic countries to use oil as a weapon -- that is, curb supplies -- to bolster the Palestinian struggle for a viable state >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Defence minister proposes oil pressure to back Palestinians

TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Iran's defence minister said Tuesday that oil could be used to bring international pressure to help support the Palestinians, the official IRNA news agency reported >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Thousand new schools in Iran to be named after Palestinian "martyrs"

TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - A powerful Iranian charity association announced plans Monday to build 1,000 schools and name them after Palestinian "martyrs" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Report: Gore kept Russian deal secret

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) kept Congress in the dark about details of Russian nuclear cooperation with Iran after receiving a letter from then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin urging him to keep the deal secret, The Washington Times reported >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Khatami invited to Russia

TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has been invited to make a state visit to Russia by President Vladimir Putin, state radio announced here Tuesday. The head of Russia's powerful advisory Security Council, Sergei Ivanov, who began a three-day visit to Tehran on Monday, delivered the invitation to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Monday
October 16, 2000

Kharrazi ends rare visit to Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi Sunday ended a rare visit to Iraq aimed at patching up differences remaining from the 1980-88 war, the Iraqi News Agency INA reported. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein met Kharrazi Saturday and Iran said the two neighbors had reached agreement on several issues >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

New anti-Israeli group calls for no-fly zones over Israel

TEHRAN, Oct 15 (AFP) - An anti-Israeli group whose creation was announced in Tehran last week by a top Iranian official called Saturday for no-fly zones like those in Iraq to be imposed over Israel. The International Anti-Zionist Movement, announced last week by Mohsen Rezaie, secretary general of Iran's powerful Expediency Council, said the goal was to keep Israeli warplanes out of the skies >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Russian security chief visits Iran

MOSCOW, Oct 16 (AFP) - The head of Russia's powerful advisory Security Council, Sergei Ivanov, began a three-day visit to Iran on Monday, Russian news agencies reported. His talks with senior Iranian officials will focus on the perceived threat to stability in Central Asia from the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and cooperation in security matters, reports said >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX

Militants cleared of murder charges

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Eight Sunni Muslim militants were acquitted Monday of murdering an Iranian diplomat and six Pakistanis. An anti-terrorist court had sentenced the men to death for the fatal shooting of Mohammed Ali Rahimi, director of an Iranian cultural center, in February 1997 >>> FULL TEXT

INDEX


Copyright © Abadan Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved. May not be duplicated or distributed in any form

 MIS Internet Services

Web Site Design by
Multimedia Internet Services, Inc

 GPG Internet server

Internet server by
Global Publishing Group.

  BBC Persian


For the latest news visit
THE IRANIAN
Newsroom


email us