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September 18-22, 2000 / Shahrivar 28-Mehr 1, 1379

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Friday
September 22, 2000

Iran likely to escape political fallout after reducing Jews' sentences

TEHRAN, Sept 22 (AFP) - Iran has probably got away with jailing 10 Jews for alleged spying for Israel without too much political and diplomatic fallout, after cutting the heavy sentences imposed in July, analysts said Friday. "Iran took world opinion into account when it ruled out imposing the death penalty, which had been the great concern ever since the affair broke," political analyst Iradj Rashti told AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Israel expresses "profound concern" at Iranian Jews appeal verdict

JERUSALEM, Sept 22 (AFP) - Israel voiced "profound concern" Thursday at an Iranian appeals court verdict which kept 10 Jews convicted of spying for the Jewish state in jail, protested their innocence and dismissed cuts in their sentences as "cosmetic". "Israel expresses its profound concern following the decision of the Iranian court of appeal in Shiraz in the case of the Jewish prisoners," an Israeli foreign ministry statement said >>> FULL TEXT

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Bush says Iran failed 'test' in case of jailed Jews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential nominee George W. Bush (news - web sites) said on Friday Iran failed a ``test'' by declining to release 10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel. ``By failing to release the 10 Iranian Jews, Iran's judiciary has again disappointed the hopes of the majority of the Iranian people for a government based on the rule of law,'' the Texas governor said in a statement issued by his campaign office >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran army testing skills near Iraq

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A day after test-firing a new long-range missile, Iran's regular army began its largest military exercises of the year Friday in mountainous terrain near the Iraqi border, state-run television reported. The three-day maneuvers in the western Kurdistan province were being supervised by top Iranian military commanders and involved airborne units and ground troops using radar interception systems, the broadcast said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran likely to escape political fallout after reducing Jews' sentences
* Israel expresses "profound concern" at Iranian Jews appeal verdict
* Bush says Iran failed 'test' in case of jailed Jews
* Iran army testing skills near Iraq
* U.S. says Iran should free Jews jailed for spying
* Iran test-fires first missile
* Iran celebrates Iran/Iraq war
* Party says Khatami will defeat "political mafia" in elections
* Russia freezes Laser deal with Iran
* Iran says pressure mounting on US to end sanctions
* Iran, Iraq still at odds, 12 years after end of war
* Iran says military growth due to war with Iraq
* Rain sparks severe flooding in northern Iran
* Conservative to be first woman to run for presidency
* Putin considers Clinton warning on Iran
* Majlis speaker says US must end hostility before ties resumed
* UN refugee head visits Afghan refugee camp in Iran
* Iran denies involvement in Baghdad rocket attack
* Iran sees positive move in US position
* UNHCR chief arrives in Iran
* Navy to launch first domestically made destroyer
* Iran finds first-ever proof of ancient palaces

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Thursday
September 21, 2000

U.S. says Iran should free Jews jailed for spying

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was disappointed by Iran's decision to merely reduce jail terms on 10 Iranian Jews for spying for Israel, saying they should be released as their trial was unfair. ``The United States is disappointed that today's appeals court decision in Iran does not overturn all of the convictions that were imposed on the 10 Iranian Jews on July 1,'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran test-fires first missile

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has successfully test-fired its first solid-liquid fuel missile, the official Iranian news agency reported Thursday. Defense Minister Vice Adm. Ali Shamkhani said the missile, the Shahab-3D, would be used for nonmilitary purposes, the Islamic Republic News Agency said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran celebrates Iran/Iraq war

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran on Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war with a military parade in Tehran, calls for a just peace and - for the first time - no anti-American slogans. Thousands of veterans of the eight-year war, some in wheelchairs, turbaned clerics, black-robed women militia volunteers and the elite Revolutionary Guards paraded before President Mohammad Khatami and top military brass >>> FULL TEXT

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Party says Khatami will defeat "political mafia" in elections

TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - An Iranian pro-reform political party has termed President Mohammad Khatami's conservative rivals a "political mafia" with no chance of winning next spring's presidential elections, a press report said Thursday. The Islamic Revolution Mujahedeen Organization (IRMO) also warned that they were using a "terrifying and despairing strategy" while trying to stamp a "radical and aggressive" image on reformists >>> FULL TEXT

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Russia freezes Laser deal with Iran

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia has frozen a deal to sell laser technology to Iran - equipment the United States said could be adapted to a nuclear weapons program. Yuri Bespalko, chief of the Atomic Energy Ministry's press service, said Russia was suspending deliveries to Iran of laser technology for scientific and medical purposes >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
September 20, 2000

Iran says pressure mounting on US to end sanctions

TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, closing a provincial tour on which he vigorously defended his reform progamme, said Washington is facing growing pressure to lift sanctions on Tehran. Khatami's remarks came after a coalition of US businesses sent an open letter calling on President Bill Clinton to end the sanctions, which notably have kept the United States out of Iran's lucrative oil sector >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran, Iraq still at odds, 12 years after end of war

TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - Twenty years after the start of the Iran-Iraq war and 12 years after its end, tensions persist between the two neighbours, despite their similar views of the world, with the presence of armed opposition groups in the other country the main stumbling block to peace. "Each time they have seemed to be patching things up over the past ten years something unexpected has happened," said analyst Iraj Rashti >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran says military growth due to war with Iraq

TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - Iran's increased military capabilities are a direct result of the nation's brutal 1980-1988 war with neighbouring Iraq, the defence ministry said Wednesday. "Achievements in the Islamic republic's defence industry are the results of its war time experience," the ministry said in a statement, reported by the state IRNA news agency, to mark Friday's 20th anniversary of the war>>> FULL TEXT

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Rain sparks severe flooding in northern Iran

TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - Heavy rains in northern Iran sparked flash floods Tuesday that damaged farms and buildings but caused no casualties, the official IRNA news agency said >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
September 19, 2000

Conservative to be first woman to run for presidency

TEHRAN, Sept 19 (AFP) - Conservative bureaucrat Farah Khosravi announced she will become the first woman ever to run for the Iranian presidency in next year's polls, press reports said Tuesday. The unmarried 41-year-old, who has twice failed to win a seat in parliament, will stand in May's elections as a member of the Jamiateh Iran Farda (JIF) party, the government-run Iran newspaper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Putin considers Clinton warning on Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton (news - web sites) is urging RussianPresident Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) to shelve plans to sell lasertechnology to Iran, telling him it could be adapted to a nuclear weapons program,an administration official said Tuesday. The Russian leader took the request seriously, but the follow-up is critical, said the official, who spoke on conditionof anonymity >>> FULL TEXT

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Majlis speaker says US must end hostility before ties resumed

TEHRAN, Sept 19 (AFP) - Iran's parliament speaker said Monday he told US lawmakers last month in New York that it was down to the United States to mend fences between the two nations, state radio reported. It quoted Mehdi Karubi telling the lawmakers there would be no response to requests to improve relations between the two countries "while your government has hostile feelings towards us, and the wall of mistrust between the two nations still stands." >>> FULL TEXT

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UN refugee head visits Afghan refugee camp in Iran

TORBAT-E-JAM, Iran, sept 18 (AFP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, on Monday visited a camp of Afghan refugees in Iran and said the question of education was a "very important" issue for refugees wanting to return home. "Many refugees want to go back but they have certain concerns," the UNHCR head told journalists after a visit to the Torbat-e-Jam camp near the Afghan border, where 7,200 Afghan refugees live >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran denies involvement in Baghdad rocket attack

TEHRAN, Sept 19 (AFP) - Iran on Monday denied it was behind a rocket attack in Baghdad that the Iraqis blamed on Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Iraq's domestic issues and problems have nothing to do with Iran," IRNA quoted an informed source at the foreign ministry as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
September 18, 2000

Iran denies plans to meet Albright, but sees positive move in US position

TEHRAN, Sept 16 (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry said Saturday that the presence of US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at a meeting in New York attended by Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi showed an evolution in the US position, but denied the two planned a face-to-face meeting. Albright had originally not intended to participate in the meeting of the 6+2 group made up of Afghanistan's neighbours, Russia and the United States, "but since she did attend, this is a development," said ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi quoted by the official IRNA news agency >>> FULL TEXT

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UNHCR chief arrives in Iran

DOQAROUN, Iran, Sept 18 (AFP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, arrived in Iran from neighbouring Afghanistan on Monday for a visit of several days to examine the situation of Afghan refugees here. She said she had a successful visit with officials from the ruling Taliban Islamic militia who now control most of Afghanistan, saying her hosts had "expressed goodwill for the return of the refugees." >>> FULL TEXT

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Navy to launch first domestically made destroyer

TEHRAN, Sept 18 (AFP) - Iran will soon launch its first domestically manufactured rocket-equipped destroyer, a naval officer told the state IRNA news agency on Monday. Vice Admiral Abdollah Manavi-Roudsari said 90 percent of the body of the rocket-launcher and 70 percent of the body of the destroyer was built by local experts. He did not give an exact date for the launch >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran finds first-ever proof of ancient palaces

TEHRAN, Sept 18 (AFP) - Iranian archaeologists have discovered the first cuneiform relic proving the existence of palaces that belonged to the Achamenean kings who ruled ancient Persia 2,500 years ago, officials said Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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