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Friday
January 26, 2001
Putin voices hope for compromise
MOSCOW (AP) - Reasserting a tough stance on Russian-U.S. relations,
President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) on Friday spoke out against
NATO (news - web sites) expansion and Washington's plans for a national
missile defense system but voiced hope for a compromise on both issues
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Rumsfeld-'Raw and random violence' threatens U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pledged
on Friday that the Bush administration will push to protect America from
new threats ranging from suitcase bombs to the ``raw and random violence
of the outlaw regime.''>>>
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* Putin voices hope for compromise
* Rumsfeld-'Raw and random violence' threatens U.S.
* Khatami warns regional countries against Israeli threat
* Iran sends recovered Palestinians home, welcomes more
wounded
* Reza Pahlavi urges end to support for moderates
* Parliament condemns press
crackdown by courts
* Court summons reform official
* Syrian President arrives for first Iran visit
* Body of a teacher murdered in Karachi flown to Tehran
* Deputy interior minister out on bail, facing vote-rigging
charges
* Syria's President Assad to make first official Iran trip
Wednesday
* Parliament speaker calls for referendum on Palestine
* Several Mujahedeen killed, arrested in western Iran: TV
* Political plot against Khatami uncovered by Shiraz police
* Conservatives blast vote overseer, want "fair"
elections
* MKO launch rocket attacks in capital
* Iran, Cuba discuss cooperation
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Thursday
January 25, 2001
Khatami warns regional countries against Israeli threat
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami said Thursday that
Israel was the greatest threat and danger to the Muslim world and urged
countries in the regioni not to forget that, the IRNA news agency reported.
Speaking to visiting Omani Deputy Prime Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sayed
Fahd bin Mamud al-Said, Khatami said Israel represented the "biggest
crisis, threat and danger in the region and in the Islamic world,"
the state agency said >>>
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Iran sends recovered Palestinians home, welcomes more wounded
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - Ten Palestinians, including one woman, injured
by Israeli forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are due to arrive
in Tehran late Thursday for treatment, officials told AFP. Ramezan Sharif,
spokesman for the Tehran-based Organization in Defence of the Intifada,
said nine other Palestinians who had recovered from their injuries after
treatment in Iran were flown back home earlier during the day >>> FULL TEXT
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Wednesday
January 24, 2001
Reza Pahlavi urges end to support for moderates
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (AFP) - Reza Pahlavi, son and heir of the late Shah
of Iran, on Wednesday urged the international community, particularly the
United States, to abandon efforts to improve ties with the current Iranian
regime. Pahlavi said the Islamic republic's current government, led by
President Mohammad Khatami who is seen by many as moderate, had failed
to live up to promises to institute wide-ranging reforms >>>
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Parliament condemns press crackdown by courts
TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - A majority of reformist members of the parliament
Wednesday condemned the conservative-dominated courts for the arrest of
journalists and closure of reformist papers and for recent sentences handed
out to "political detainees", television reported. In an open
letter to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi,
more than 150 deputies expressed their "deep concern" over "the
illegal actions" of the judicial system >>>
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Court summons reform official
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian court on Tuesday held a key ally of reformist
President Mohammad Khatami responsible for alleged irregularities in last
year's legislative elections in which hard-liners suffered a stunning defeat.
``I was summoned to the court to give some explanations on the February
legislative polls in Tehran but the meeting became an all-out trial session,''
said the deputy interior minister, Mostafa Tajzadeh, who was freed on bail
of $12,500 >>>
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Syrian President arrives for first-ever Iran visit
TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Asssad arrived here
Wednesday for his first visit to close regional ally Iran since taking
power six months ago after the death of his father, officials told AFP.
Assad, who has made only a handful of trips abroad since succeeding Hafez
al-Assad in July, will meet with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
and President Mohammad Khatami during his two-day visit >>>
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Body of a teacher murdered in Karachi flown to Tehran
KARACHI, Jan 24 (AFP) - The body of a teacher murdered here last week
was flown to Tehran Wednesday on an Iran Air plane, police said. Aga Sultani
was gunned down outside his home near his Shiite Muslim seminary on Saturday.
"His entire family also left with the body," Pakistani Shiite
political party leader Hasan Turabi said >>>
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Tuesday
January 23, 2001
Deputy interior minister out on bail, facing vote-rigging charges
TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - The embattled deputy interior minister was freed
on bail Tuesday after a court hearing on charges of vote-rigging in last
year's parliamentary elections, judicial sources said. Mostafa Tajzadeh
was allowed to go by the Tehran administrative court after paying some
12,500 dollars in bail at the end of the closed-door hearing, they said
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Syria's President Assad to make first official Iran trip Wednesday
TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due in Tehran
on Wednesday for his first official visit to Iran since taking over power
in Damascus last July, the Iranian government newspaper said Tueday. Assad,
who will be heading a large Syrian delegation, will meet with Iran's supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed Khatami, the paper
said, without specifying how long the visit would last >>>
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Parliament speaker calls for referendum on Palestine
AMMAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karubi on Tuesday said
Jews, Christians and Muslims who lived in Palestine before the creation
of Israel in 1948 should take part in a referendum on its future. "We
demand a referendum that would involve the three monotheistic religions
that lived in Palestine before 1948," Karubi told a news conference
in Amman at the end of a three-day visit to Jordan >>>
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Several Mujahedeen killed, arrested in western Iran: TV
TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Several members of the armed, Iraqi-based People's
Mujahedeen opposition have been killed and others arrested in western Iran
near the Iraqi border, television reported Tuesday. "These members
of the terrorist group were killed or arrested as they attempted to enter
Iran from Iraq to carry out terrorist acts," the report said, adding
that further details would be provided later >>>
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Monday
January 22, 2001
Political plot against Khatami uncovered by Shiraz police
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - A "huge plot" aimed at politically
discrediting President Mohammad Khatami was uncovered recently in the southern
city of Shiraz, and "suspect elements" have been arrested, press
reported Monday. "There was premeditated action on a large scale against
the president," according to Hadi Pejuheh, a security official from
Fars province quoted by the pres >>>
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Conservatives blast vote overseer, want "fair" elections
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - A leading conservative group on Monday called
for the June presidential elections to be "free and fair" after
the reformist official overseeing the vote was hit by a variety of court
charges. The Islamic Coalition Association (ICA) said in a statement carried
by the press that voters would only turn out if there were "propitious
conditions and a fair competition between the candidates >>>
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MKO launch rocket attacks in capital
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian opposition rebels launched a mortar attack
on judicial headquarters in the capital on Sunday but there was no immediate
word on any casualties. The official IRNA news agency said ``four mortar
shells rattled northeastern Tehran'' without giving further details. A
statement from the Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) faxed to Reuters
in Dubai said the group's guerrillas had fired mortars at the headquarters
of the chief prosecutor's headquarters and the city's Islamic Revolutionary
Courts >>>
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Iran, Cuba discuss cooperation
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and his
Cuban counterpart met Monday and called for boosting cooperation between
their countries, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported >>>
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