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Friday
Ocotber 27, 2000
Reformists set up political strategy committee ahead of elections
TEHRAN, Oct 27 (AFP) - Iran's embattled reformists have created a political
strategy committee to defend their movement after repeated setbacks at
the hands of conservative rivals, press reports said Thursday. The 2nd
of Khordad reform coalition, named for the date of President Mohammad Khatami's
1997 election, picked top reformists to push for reforms in the run-up
to next year's presidential polls, the Kayhan paper said >>>
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USS Cole probe seeks Bin Laden link
WASHINGTON (AP) - Osama bin Laden, the elusive Islamic militant who
has publicly pledged to drive the U.S. military out of the Middle East,
is a focus of the USS Cole bombing investigation, but investigators have
no hard evidence he was behind it, several American officials said Friday.
Meantime, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and FBI (news - web sites)
Director Louis Freeh appealed in a joint statement for greater cooperation
from the Yemeni government. FBI agents have encountered the same problem
they had in an earlier terrorism investigation in Saudi Arabia - no direct
access to suspects >>>
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Republican senators order documents on Gore-Chernomyrdin deal
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (AFP) - A group of 10 senior US Republican senators
ordered the US State Department Thursday to produce all documents related
to a secret US-Russian agreement on arms sales to Iran by next Monday or
face a formal subpoena. The senators, who include the chairmen of several
influential senate committees, told US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
the papers had to be on their desks by noon, October 30 >>>
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Tehran city hall burns the midnight oil
TEHRAN, Oct 26 (AFP) - Tehran's district mayors are burning the midnight
oil after the municipality ordered city hall to remain open overnight to
better serve residents, press reports said Thursday. Following an order
from mayor Morteza Alviri, mayors of the capital's 20 districts are taking
turns on the overnight shift from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, reported the Hamshahri
daily, which is owned by the municipality >>>
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* Reformists set up political strategy
committee
* USS Cole probe seeks Bin Laden link
* Republican senators order documents
* Tehran city hall burns the midnight oil
* Saudi calls on Iran to sign a security accord
* Congressmen want Russia-Iran papers
* Hamilton defends Gore over arms
* Iran says Iraq lets more pilgrims visit shrines
* U.S. State Dept. denies Gore-Russia deal
* Khatami criticises Arab states
* OIC meeting of foreign ministers in doubt: diplomats
* Revolutionary guards say Israel should be "wiped
off"
* MKO says mortar attack carried out by women
* Ex-Republican officials accuse Gore
* Iran MPs blast "illegal" US move
* Seven wounded Palestinians arrive in Tehran
* Schoolchildren start day with slogans against US
* Soldiers killed in Iran explosion
* Under-fire culture minister says he is ready to stay on
* Explosions hit Tehran for second day
* Iran, pressured over Israeli captives
* Iran criticises Arab summit
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Thursday
October 26, 2000
Saudi calls on Iran to sign a security accord
RIYADH, Oct 26 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is ready to sign a security cooperation
agreement with Iran, Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said,
urging Tehran to push ahead with the accord. "The Saudi kingdom is
ready to sign a security agreement with Iran," he told a press conference
late Wednesday, and called on Iran "to give a positive response to
signing the agreement." >>>
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Congressmen want Russia-Iran papers
WASHINGTON (AP) - The debate over an alleged secret deal on Russian
arms sales advanced on Capitol Hill Thursday, with Republicans in both
chambers calling for release of the agreement. ``We should demand it,''
Sen. Christopher Bond of Missouri said on the Senate floor. ``We should
subpoena it.'' >>>
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Hamilton defends Gore over arms
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former chairman of the House International Relations
Committee says Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) fully briefed
Congress on Russian arms sales to Iran and that Gore's critics on the issue
are playing politics and harming U.S. national security. Former Rep. Lee
Hamilton, D-Ind., stepped into the dispute with a statement as the Clinton
administration denied Gore made a secret agreement allowing Russia to continue
selling arms to Iran without triggering U.S. sanctions against Russia >>>
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Iran says Iraq lets more pilgrims visit shrines
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Neighbors Iran and Iraq have agreed to allow more
Iranian pilgrims to visit Shi'ite holy shrines in Iraq, Tehran's official
IRNA news agency said on Thursday. The move is a sign of improving relations
between the two countries, which have long been at odds over a host of
issues including prisoners still held after their 1980-88 war and support
for guerrilla groups fighting to overthrow each other's governments >>>
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Wednesday
October 25, 2000
U.S. State Dept. denies Gore-Russia deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department said Wednesday there was no secret
deal by the Clinton administration allowing Russian arms sales to Iran
and endangering national security. An understanding between Vice President
Al Gore (news - web sites) and then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
in 1995 was ``announced publicly,'' said John P. Barker, deputy assistant
secretary of state for nonproliferation control >>>
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Khatami criticises Arab states for failing to defend Palestinians
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami lashed out
against Arab states Tuesday for failing to defend the Palestinian nation
as the latest Middle East violence brought the death toll to near 140,
the official IRNA news agency reported. "I, as a member of an Islamic
nation, the head of state and the head of the Organization of Islamic Conference
(OIC), have serious complaints against the brothers in the Arab (Cairo)
summit. You have not fulfilled the expectations of an Islamic nation,"
Khatami said >>>
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OIC meeting of foreign ministers in doubt: diplomats
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP) - The fate of a hoped-for emergency meeting of
foreign ministers from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
on the Middle East crisis was in doubt Tuesday, diplomats said. "We
don't know what is happening but, the more time that goes by, the less
likely it is, given the regular meeting already scheduled," a top-ranking
Arab diplomat told AFP >>>
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Revolutionary guards say Israel should be "wiped off" map
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran)
called Tuesday for the obliteration of Israel, the official IRNA news agency
reported. "The Pasdaran believe that the state of Israel, this tumorous
cancer, must be wiped off the Middle East map," the corps said in
a statement cited by IRNA >>>
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Iraqi base MKO says mortar attack in Tehran carried out by women
NICOSIA, Oct 25 (AFP) - Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's
Mujahedeen, said Wednesday that a mortar attack it claimed to have launched
on security headquarters in Tehran at the weekend was carried out by a
unit made up exclusively of women. In a statement received by AFP here,
the Mujuahedeen said "a number or Revolutionary Guards were killed
or wounded" in the operation on Sunday morning, using weapons seized
from government forces >>>
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Tuesday
October 24, 2000
Ex-Republican officials accuse Gore
WASHINGTON (AP) - Four former secretaries of state in Republican administrations
and seven other ex-high level officials accused Vice President Al Gore
of agreeing to Russia's sale of ``highly threatening'' military equipment
to Iran in 1995 without fully informing Congress of the deal >>>
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Iran MPs blast "illegal" US move over government payout
TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Iran's reform-majority parliament on Tuesday
slammed the "illegal" action of US lawmakers after Congress agreed
to front money to eight families who have won court judgments against Iran.
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Seven wounded Palestinians arrive in Tehran for medical treatment
TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Seven Palestinians arrived in Tehran early Tuesday
for medical treatment in line with Iran's project to take in up to 100
Palestinians badly injured in the recent violence, the official IRNA news
agency reported >>>
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Schoolchildren start day with slogans against US, Israel
TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Iranian schoolchildren nationwide began their
school day Tuesday chanting slogans against Israel and the United States
and in support of the Palestinians after an appeal from the education ministry
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Soldiers killed in Iran explosion
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - At least eight soldiers were killed
and about a dozen injured by a huge explosion in an ammunition dump in
northeastern Iran on Tuesday, an exile Iranian opposition group said >>>
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Monday
October 23, 2000
Under-fire culture minister says he is ready to stay on
TEHRAN, Oct 23 (AFP) - Embattled Iranian Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani
said Monday he is prepared to stay in office at the request of President
Mohammad Khatami, who is running for re-election next year. The 46-year-old
minister, long a target of conservative wrath and a leading light of the
reform movement who has already "resigned" twice, told AFP that
he was willing to stand by his close all >>>
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Explosions hit Tehran for second day
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Several explosions believed to be from mortar rounds
rocked Tehran on Sunday for the second time in two days, Iranian state
television reported. ``Sounds of explosions have been heard... It is believed
the explosions were caused by mortar rounds,'' the television said. The
exiled Iraq-based Mujahideen Khalq guerrilla group said it had launched
the attack on the headquarters of special units of anti-riot forces >>>
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Iran, pressured over Israeli captives denies influence on Hezbollah
TEHRAN, Oct 22 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami said Sunday that Iran
had no influence on Hezbollah, implying that it would not try to coax the
Lebanese militant group to release four Israeli captives. "Hezbollah
is a Lebanese and Arab movement on which Iran exercises no influence,"
Khatami said >>>
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Iran criticises Arab summit
TEHRAN, Oct 23 (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry late Sunday criticised
the results of the just-completed Arab summit in Cairo, saying it had failed
to respond to the wishes of the Palestinians and other Muslims. "The
Arab summit needed to take firm decisions, make concrete proposals to sypport
the Palestinian people, and to decide to totally break-off relations with
Israel," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi was quoted as
saying by the official IRNA news agency >>>
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