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Dec 14-18, 1998 / Azar 24-28, 1377

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Today

* Iranian embassy officials injured in Vienna protest
* Iran meets EU talk politics and economics
* Abadan airport closed due to military raids
* Funeral for slain writer, Pouyandeh
* Iran court arrests pro-Khatami cleric for fraud
* Ardabili criticises Islamic regime
* Farm-St. lawmakers pressure Clinton
* Iran protests after hit by errant missile
* Iran releases 196 Iraqi POWs

* U.S. warns Russia on Iranian nuclear program
* Iran arms dealer sentenced 5 years

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* Thousands attend writer's funeral
* Iran closes activist newspaper
* U.S. senators want sanctions lifted for wheat sales
* Iran frees prisoners
* Tehran restricts traffic because of smog
* Secularist writers said to be in hiding
* Writers' letters to people and Khatami
* Iran signs Caspian oil deal
* Egyptian parliamentarians leave for Iran
* Iran to attend UAE arms show, official says
* Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances"
* Weightlifter prays to prophets, wins gold
* Iran condemns attack on Americans
* Shell drops plans for pipeline across Iran
* Iran not seeking biological weapons, says official
* Iran says U.S. can't curb its missile capacity
* Rafsanjani slams Palestinian charter change
* Annan denies mediation offer on disputed Islands

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Friday
December 18, 1998

* Iranian embassy officials injured in Vienna protest

VIENNA, Dec 18 (AFP) - Two Iranian embassy staff were injured in Vienna Friday in an attack by Tehran opposition activists protesting during talks between an Iranian minister and the EU, the Austrian foreign ministry said. The officials sustained injuries during an attack on cars belonging to the delegation of Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi, meeting here with a troika of European Union officials, said a ministry statement ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran meets EU talk politics and economics

Dec 18, (BBC) - Senior officials from Iran and the European Union have begun talks in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on economic, political and human rights issues. The officials also discussed the recent killings of a number of Iranian writers and opposition figures, suspected to have been carried out by conservative Iranian elements opposed to President Mohammmed Khatami's reforms ... FULL

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* Abadan airport closed due to military raids

TEHRAN, Dec 18 (AFP) - Abadan airport in southwestern Iran near the Iraqi border has been closed because of the US-British military strikes against Iraq, Iranian state television said Friday. Domestic flights to and from Abadan were suspended for at least five days, the television said ... FULL TEXTTEXT

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Thursday
December 17, 1998

* Funeral for slain writer, Pouyandeh

Tehran, dec. 17, irna - A funeral procession was held for the slain writer and translator mohammad ja'far pouyandeh from al-nabi mosque in tehran thursday morning. later, pouyandeh's body was calmly transferred to emamzadeh taher cemetery in karaj, a suburb west of tehran ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran court arrests pro-Khatami cleric for fraud

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - A court in Iran has arrested a prominent cleric, who backs moderate President Mohammad Khatami, to serve a jail sentence for fraud, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. "Assadolah Bayat, who had been sentenced to a one-year jail term and 100 million rials ($33,000) on fraud and forgery charges was arrested and sent to prison," the agency quoted a statement by the Special Court of the Clergy as saying. Bayat, a former deputy speaker of parliament, is a senior member of the pro-Khatami League of Militant Clerics ... FULL TEXT

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* Ardabili criticises Islamic regime

Dec 17, 1998, (BBC) - A prominent Iranian Ayatollah has criticised the country's Islamic system for failing to protect its citizens following the killings of a number of writers and opposition figures over recent weeks. According to the Khordad newspaper, Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardabili, a former head of the judiciary and a prominent Islamic scholar at Qom's theological centre, strongly condemned the killings. He has also expressed regret that non-clerical scholars were being undermined, which he said did not bode well for the country.

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* Farm-St. lawmakers pressure Clinton

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton is under pressure from farm-state lawmakers to let Iran buy $500 million worth of American wheat, corn, sugar and other agricultural products. The proposed sale, which would require a waiver of trade sanctions dating from the 1979 hostage crisis, would provide a ``significant economic boost'' for farmers, 32 lawmakers said Wednesday in a letter to Clinton ... FULL TEXT

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    * Iran protests after hit by errant missile

    Dec 17, 1998, TEHRAN (Reuters) - A stray missile from the allied attack on Iraq crashed into a southwestern Iranian border city Thursday, causing no casualties but prompting a strong diplomatic protest from Tehran. The official IRNA news agency quoted an informed source in the port of Khorramshahr as saying the missile touched down near the city's central mosque, shattering nearby windows and damaging property within a 220-yard radius ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
December 16, 1998

* Iran releases 196 Iraqi POWs

December 16, 1998 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iran on Wednesday released 196 Iraqi and 16 non-Iraqi soldiers captured during the 1980-88 war, the international Red Cross said. The ICRC said in a statement that the remains of one Iraqi POW also was handed over to Iraq during the prisoners' release at the Khosrawi-Mundharieh checkpoint on the Iran-Iraq border ... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. warns Russia on Iranian nuclear program

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States Wednesday warned it would impose fresh sanctions and curb expansion of the lucrative space launch market if Russia fails immediately to halt cooperation with Iran's nuclear and missile programs. ``Because of our concerns, we have already substantially curtailed USG (government) programs with key Russian nuclear entities,'' State Department spokesman James Rubin said ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran arms dealer sentenced 5 years

Tuesday, December 15, 1998 NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A New York-based international arms broker who masterminded a scheme to sell F-14 engine parts to Iran was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison and fined $125,000. ``I am ashamed for what I have done,'' Parviz Lavi told U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith. ``Mr. Lavi, you should be ashamed of what you did. They are shameful actions,'' as well as a threat to national security, the judge said before imposing the maximum sentence. The judge also ordered three years supervised probation after Lavi finishes his prison term ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
December 15, 1998

* Thousands attend writer's funeral

Dec 15, (BBC) - Some 3,000 people have taken part in a funeral procession in theIranian capital Tehran for the writer and poet Mohammed Mokhtari,who was killed last week. He was one of several dissident writers who have died recentlyunder mysterious circumstances. His coffin, covered in red flowers, was carried through crowds ofrelatives, friends, artists and writers, who joined the procession... FULL TEXT

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* Iran closes activist newspaper

December 14, 1998, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A court on Monday fined and temporarily shut down a newspaper headed by Iran's leading woman activist, Iranian television reported. The report did not say why the penalties were imposed on the newspaper Zan, owned by Parliament member and women's rights advocate Faezeh Hashemi. Only last Tuesday, a court cleared Hashemi of publishing untruths. The report said Hashemi, the daughter of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, was fined about $830 and prohibited from publishing for two weeks ... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. senators want sanctions lifted for wheat sales to Iran

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran wants to buy $500 million worth of U.S. farmgoods, a sale prohibited by current U.S. economic sanctions, North Dakota Sen.Byron Dorgan said Tuesday. Dorgan, a Democrat from a major wheat-growing state, urged the ClintonAdministration to change sanctions policy to automatically exempt food to helpboost American farm exports ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran frees prisoners

Dec 15, (BBC) - Iranian radio has reported that an unspecified number of Iraqi prisoners will be released on the Iran-Iraq border on Wednesday. The operation will be supervised by the International Committee of the Red Cross and representatives of the two countries. The release follows negotiations between Iranian and Iraqi delegations.

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* Tehran restricts traffic because of smog

Dec 15, (BBC) - The Iranian authorities are introducing traffic restrictions in the capital, Teheran, from today Wednesday because of severe air pollution. Drivers will only be allowed on the city's roads on alternate days -depending on whether their license plate begins with an odd oreven number ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
December 14, 1998

* Secularist writers said to be in hiding

TEHRAN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Several Iranian secularist writers have gone into hiding after a string of mystery deaths and disappearances among their colleagues that threatens President Mohammad Khatami's reform efforts. Firouz Gouran, editor of the banned monthly Jame'eh Salem, or Healthy Society, said on Monday many of his colleagues had either left their homes or adopted special security measures. ``This has spread panic everywhere,'' Gouran told Reuters by telephone ... FULL TEXT

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* In letters to people & Khatami, writers want "deliberate violence" stopped

"As we speak out about this organized violence and express our [concern about] the lack of protection for the lives of writers and intellectuals, we ask for an unequivocal explanation by the state authorities; and, we announce that, in the re-occurrence of such events, legal agencies can not disavow their common responsibility for protecting the lives of citizens. We ask all those who can not stand this situation, which is counter to freedom and public security, to [help] end this production of terror." ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran signs Caspian oil deal

Dec 14, (BBC) - Two western oil companies, Shell and the British-based Lasmo,have signed an agreement with Iran to explore for oil in the Caspian Sea. The agrement with the National Iranian Oil Company will run for eighteen months and could lead to drilling operations... FULL TEXT

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* Egyptian parliamentarians leave for Iran

CAIRO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A delegation from Egypt's parliament left for Iran on Sunday to attend an Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting, airport sources said. The meeting will discuss the formation of an Islamic parliamentary federation, they added. No members of the Egyptian National Assembly (parliament) are known to have visited Iran since the Islamic revolution 19 years ago ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran to attend UAE arms show, official says

ABU DHABI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Iran will take part for the first time in the Middle East's biggest arms show in the United Arab Emirates next March despite a territorial dispute between the two Gulf states, a senior UAE official said on Monday. Brigadier Sultan al-Suweiditold reporters Iran would be among several states to participate for the first time in the annual event ... FULL TEXT

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