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August 10-14, 1998 / Mordad 19-23, 1377
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* Rafsanjani warns Taleban
and Pakistan
* Taleban a "threat" to Central Asia
Previous
* Majlis creates new
press restrictions
* PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's
immediate release
* Khatami meets "Kaargozaaraan" party offcials
* Majlis wants to raise voting age to 18
* Government opposes increasing voting age
* Interior minister speech on need for free elections
* Iran crowd says Afghan Taleban holding diplomats
* Khatami meets convicted mayor
* Karbaschi files appeal
* Moderate Iranian minister calls for fair elections
* Afghan Taleban threatens
to try Iranians as spies
* Iran voices "solidarity"
with victims of US embassies bombings
* Iran mayor trial raises
pressure for legal reform
* Iran's Khatami to Head
New Economic Reform Body
* IIC Welcomes the Easing U.S. Immigration Rules
* Wrestlers on top of the
world
* Taliban says 30 Iranians captured
* Iran seeks UN help to free envoys in Afghanistan
* British Airways resumes direct flights to Tehran
* Three U.S. multinationals to join Iran trade fair
* Khatami turns to voters for more strength
* Iran condemns bomb attacks on U.S. embassies
* Nateq-Nouri: U.S. isn't Iran's ``angel of salvation''
* FBI blames Iran for anti-Jewish
bomb in Argentina
* U.S. eases immigration
rules
* MKO accuses Tehran of
killing Kurdish dissident in Iraq
* UK, Iran discuss ways to improve relations
* Egyptian official: wide horizon open for cooperation
* Iran plans big presence
at Asian games
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Friday,
August 14, 1998
* Rafsanjani warns Taleban and Pakistan
TEHRAN, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Iran's former president
on Friday added his voice to a growing chorus of criticism against the
Afghan Taleban, calling them irresponsible and demanding that they free
11 Iranian diplomats he said they held hostage. ``This is an irresponsible
group that is doing tremendous damage to the image of Islam around the
world,'' former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said, as cheers
erupted from the crowd assembled for the Tehran University Friday prayer
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* Taleban a "threat" to Central Asia
TEHRAN, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharrazi said the Moslem Afghan Taleban movement threatened Central
Asian stability and promoted ``a false image'' of Islam, Iran's official
news agency IRNA said on Friday. ``The Taleban... are a danger to the stability
of the entire region and promote a false image of Islam and repeatedly
violate human rights, particularly those of women,'' Kharrazi was quoted
as saying by IRNA during a visit to Turkmenistan... FULL
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Thursday
August 13, 1998
* Majlis creates new press restrictions
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - The Majlis has passed a law with ambiguous terms
which would make it easy to shut down publications which publish "offensive"
images or articles that defend women's rights based on "un-Islamic"
principles... FULL
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* PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's immediate release
We write to you today about our colleague, prominent writer and legal
scholar, Hojatoleslam Mohsen Sa'idzadeh who was arrested on June 30, 1998,
and has remained in jail ever since. We believe that his incarceration
is linked to his reformist views and writings in general, and his views
pertaining to women's rights in particular... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami meets "Kaargozaaraan" party offcials
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - President Khatami held a meeting with officials
of the moderate "Kaargozaaraan Saazandegi" -- the first official
party formed in nearly 20 years... FULL
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* Majlis wants to raise voting age to 18
TEHRAN, Aug 13 (AFP) - Iran's parliament wants to raise the national
voting age from 16 to 18 in the latest struggle between the conservative
parliament and reformist President Mohammed Khatami. The conservative-dominated
parliament "is now looking at revising electoral law with the intent
of raising the voting age to 18," an official said... FULL TEXT
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* Government opposes increasing voting age
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - The government of President Khatami has expressed
oppsition to increasing the age of voters from 16 to 18, arguing that this
would prevent mature youth from taking part in the country's political
process... FULL
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* Interior minister speech on need for free elections
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Interior Minister Mousavi Lari has made a strong
case for free elections in order to avoid low voter turn out in the upcoming
elections for the key Assembly of Experts, the body which has the power
to select the country's leader... FULL
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Wednesday
August 12, 1998
* Iran crowd says Afghan Taleban holding diplomats
TEHRAN, Aug 12 (Reuters) - About 150 people protested outside Pakistan's
embassy in Tehran on Wednesday to demand freedom for 11 Iranians diplomats
and a journalist who are alleged to be held by the Afghan Taleban militia.
Witnesses said the crowd shouted ``Taleban -- Criminals!'' and ``Pakistani
army supports the Taleban!''... FULL
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* Khatami meets convicted mayor
TEHRAN, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
given a five-year jail term in a controversial corruption trial last month,
was shown on state-run television on Wednesday at a meeting with moderate
President Mohammad Khatami. It was the first time that Karbaschi, a key
moderate ally of the president, had appeared on television since he was
sentenced to a hefty fine and a 20-year ban from public office as well
as the jail term ... FULL
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* Karbaschi files appeal
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The former mayor of Tehran, who was sentenced to
five years in jail last month for corruption, has filed an appeal, the
official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday. The appeal was
submitted Tuesday by Bahman Keshavarz, lawyer of the deposed mayor, Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, the agency reported ... FULL
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* Moderate Iranian minister calls for fair elections
TEHRAN, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Iran's reformist interior minister said on
Wednesday that fair competition in the upcoming elections to a powerful
clerical body was essential to ensure popular participation. Elections
for the Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint and dismiss
Iran's supreme leader, are due to be held on October 23. Assembly elections
are held every eight years ... FULL
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Tuesday
August 11, 1998
* Afghan Taleban threatens to try Iranians
as spies
KABUL, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban
movement said on Tuesday it could put captured Iranians on trial on charges
of spying as they had not been registered as diplomats. The Taleban foreign
ministry issued the statement while reacting to Iran's charge that Taleban
forces had detained 11 of its diplomats and a correspondent of the official
news agency IRNA in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif after capturing
it on Saturday ... FULL
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* Iran voices "solidarity" with victims
of US embassies bombings
TEHRAN, Aug 11 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharazi expressed "sympathy and solidarity" on Tuesday
for the families of the victims of the bomb attacks on US embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania last week. "We deplore these attacks and express
sympathy and solidarity with the families of the victims," Kharazi
said in separate messages for his Kenyan and Tanzanian counterparts ...
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* Iran mayor trial raises pressure for legal
reform
TEHRAN, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Iran's judicial system,
which combines the role of prosecutor and judge in one, is under pressure
to reform following the recent corruption trial of Tehran's mayor, legal
experts said on Tuesday. Mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, a key political
ally of moderate President Mohammad Khatami, was found guilty in July after
a politically charged trial that gripped public attention... FULL TEXT
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* Iran's Khatami to Head New Economic Reform
Body
TEHRAN, Aug 6 (Reuters)- Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami will head a new task force charged with reforming the country's
economic structure, Tehran radio said on Tuesday. The most important goals
of the new body will be to reform Iran's foreign investment laws, tax collection
system and national employment regulations, the radio said ... FULL TEXT
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* IIC Welcomes the Easing U.S. Immigration Rules
Washington DC, August 9, 1998 - Iranians for International Cooperation
(IIC), a not-for-profit network of concerned global citizens who strive
to facilitate friendship between Iran and other nations of the world, applaud
the US Department of Justice gesture of goodwill towards Iranian travelers...FULL TEXT
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* On top of the world
(Hamshahri) - The national Iranian youth wrestling
team (free style) have become world champions following competitions among
35 nations in Las Vagas, Navada... FULL
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Monday
August 10, 1998
* Taliban says 30 Iranians captured
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Taliban religious militia controlled
Mazar-e-Sharif today, and a spokesman said it captured 30 Iranians accused
of supplying weapons to opposition forces that had held the key city just
days before. There had been reports of fierce street battles in Mazar-e-Sharif,
the largest city in northern Afghanistan, since Taliban fighters entered
Saturday, with each side claiming to have ousted the other from the city...
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* Iran seeks UN help to free envoys in Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Iran called for help from the United Nations
on Monday to free 11 Iranian diplomats and a journalist it says were taken
prisoner by Taleban forces during the weekend capture of Mazar-i-Sharif
in northern Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, in a letter to
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported by Tehran radio, said the Taleban
militia attacked the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday and
took the diplomats captive... FULL
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* British Airways resumes direct flights to Tehran
TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) -A British Airways jet left Tehran for London Monday
as the company resumed direct flights between the capitals for the first
time since the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Three U.S. multinationals to join Iran trade fair
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Three U.S. multi-national firms will join more
than 200 companies from 69 countries to participate in the annual Tehran
International Trade Fair in October, Iran's official news agency IRNA said
on Monday. Hossein Esfahbodi, the deputy director of Iran's Export Promotion
Center, told IRNA that ``three multi-national companies from America are
to participate in the fair.'' ... FULL
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* Khatami turns to voters for more strength
TEHRAN, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Moderate President Mohammad Khatami, armed
with a huge electoral mandate but limited executive powers, has moved to
outflank the conservative opposition with a fresh appeal to Iran's voters.
Khatami's new interior minister, Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, said at the weekend
that a long-dormant clause in the constitution providing for the election
of local councils would be implemented no later than March, 1999 ... FULL
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* Iran condemns bomb attacks on U.S. embassies
TEHRAN, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Iran condemned on Saturday the bombing of
two U.S. embassies in East Africa and called for international efforts
against terrorism, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported. ``The Islamic
Republic of Iran condemns the bomb explosions at U.S. embassies in Nairobi,
Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,'' IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman
Mahmoud Mohammadi saying... FULL
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* Nateq-Nouri: U.S. isn't Iran's ``angel of salvation''
TEHRAN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Iran's parliamentary speaker on Monday said
the United States was not an ``angel of salvation'' that could cure Tehran's
economic ills, the official news agency IRNA said. IRNA said Nateq-Nouri
made his comments in response to some local media comments implying closer
relations with Washingtion was a panacea for Iran's current situation.
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