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* U.S. senator calls for end to food embargo
* Albright: Iran should not be in isolation forever
* Jannati warns of Internet threat
* UNHCR in Iran to discuss Afghan refugees
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* Tehran police use force to disperse opposition rally
* "Murderers confess" to recent crimes
* Foruhar killers used film ploy to enter home
* U.S. moving toward looser sanctions on Iran
* Murderers of Iranian dissidents to face public trial
* Intelliegence minister may be replaced: paper
* TV chief regrets airing anti-Khatami program
* Iran sets petroleum exports at $12.1 bln
* Russia defends nuclear fuel sale
* Iran says President Khatami plans France visit
* Iran delayed missile test due to problem -Israeli
* TV chief banned from cabinet meetings
* Khatami seen winning row with state TV
* Iran oil capacity exceeds estimates-Dresdner Bank
* U.S. says considering sale of farms goods to Iran
* Iran Pardons 1,400 Prisoners
* Mysterious explosion leaves 4 dead in karaj
* Iran slams Kosovo massacre, urges legal action
* Khamenei urges factions to end dispute
* New murders shake Iran
* Russian ex-KGB blames West for Iran technology
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Friday
January 22, 1999
* U.S. senator calls for end to food embargo on Iran
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The chairman of the Senate Agriculture
Committee has called on President Bill Clinton to approve a possible sale
of more than $500 million of U.S. farm goods to Iran and to end a unilateral
U.S. food embargo on that country. ``Lifting or modifying the prohibition''
on U.S. food sales to Iran could encourage leaders in that country ``to
respond by modifying its international behaviour in ways more compatible
with our interests,'' said Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, in
a letter to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger ... FULL
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* Albright: Iran should not be in isolation forever
WASHINGTON, January 22 (Itar-Tass) - US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright believes that such a country as Iran should not be in isolation
forever. She said this in a speech to the Centre for National Policy on
Thursday, motivating this view by Iran's size, importance and geographic
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* Jannati warns of Internet threat
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A top Iranian cleric warned on Friday against
the ``threat'' of the Internet and satellite television to Iranian society
and called for counteracting such influence with films on the history of
Islam. ``The danger of the Internet and satellites that broadcast from
a close range threatens us...They broadcast disgraceful, immoral pictures
and threaten all humanity and morality and chastity,'' said Ayatollah Ahmad
Jannati, the secretary of the powerful Guardian Council ... FULL
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* UNHCR in Iran to discuss Afghan refugees
Jan 22, (BBC) - A senior delegation from the United Nations refugee
agency, UNHCR, is in Iran for talks which will focus mainly on the future
of some one-and-half million Afghan refugees there ... FULL
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Thursday
January 21, 1999
* Tehran police use force to disperse opposition rally
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) - Tehran police forcibly dispersed thousands of
people commemorating the anniversary Thursday of the death of former prime
minister and Islamic liberal opposition leader Mehdi Bazargan. Police intervened
at the end of a ceremony at Hosseinieh-Ershad mosque in northern Tehran
after 10,000 people poured into the streets and shouted slogans in support
of President Mohammad Khatami and against his conservative opponents ...
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* "Murderers confess" to recent crimes
Tehran (Iran) - Military prosecutor Hojatoleslam Mohammad Niazi has
detailed what he says are confessions from alleged killers of dissidents
... FULL TEXT
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* Foruhar killers used film ploy to enter home
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) - The murderers of Iranian dissident Daryush Foruhar
and his wife killed the couple after entering their home on the pretext
of making a film, a judicial official was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Mohammad Niazi, a prosecutor with a military court investigating the case,
also said that someone close to Foruhar, probably a member of his secular
nationalist party, accompanied the killers ... FULL
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* U.S. moving toward looser sanctions on Iran
Prague, 20 January 1999 (RFE/RL) -- The following is an RFE/RL interview
with Ambassador Robert H. Pelletreau, former U.S. assistant secretary of
state for Near-Eastern Affairs under President Bill Clinton and now a lawyer
and an advocate for improving U.S.-Iran relations. Our correspondent asked
Ambassador Pelletreau to speculate on the likely direction U.S. trade sanctions
on Iran will take in the months ahead ... FULL
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Wednesday
January 20, 1999
* Murderers of Iranian dissidents to face public trial
TEHRAN, Jan 20 (AFP) - The alleged murderers of Iranian intellectuals
and dissidents will be put on public trial shortly, a military official
announced Wednesday. "They will be tried in public and can have a
defense lawyer," a prosecutor of the Tehran military tribunal Mohammad
Niazi said in an interview broadcast on state television ... FULL TEXT
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* Intelliegence minister may be replaced: paper
Tehran, Jan. 20, IRNA - information minister qorbanali dorri-najafabadi
will stay in his post until the end of the current iranian year ending
march 21, and "most probably he will be replaced by ali yunesi,"
an informed source told the daily 'tehran times'. yunesi is one of the
three members who on behalf of president mohammad khatami successfully
conducted an inquiry into the recent murders of dissident politicians and
writers, added the article in the paper, published wednesday.
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* TV chief regrets airing anti-Khatami program
Tehran, Jan. 20, IRNA - The president of the islamic republic of iran
broadcasting (irib), ali larijani, in a statement issued here on wednesday
stated that part of the tv program 'cheragh' had violated the irib policy
of preventing the politicization of the case of recent serial murders ...
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* Iran sets petroleum exports at $12.1 bln in 1999/2000
TEHRAN, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran is planning to earn $12.1 billion from
its petroleum exports in the next Iranian year under a budget measure approved
on Wednesday. In a session broadcast on Tehran radio, parliament deputies
passed the measure forecasting $10.6 billion in crude exports and $1.5
billion in exports of petroleum products and liquefied natural gas in the
year starting on March 21 ... FULL
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* Russia defends nuclear fuel sale
MOSCOW (AP) -- The nuclear fuel Russia plans to supply to Iran for a
power plant cannot be used to build nuclear weapons, a top Russian official
said Wednesday. Russia signed an $800 million deal with Iran in 1995 to
help build a 1,000-megawatt light-water nuclear reactor in Bushehr. The
United States and Israel have strongly criticized the project, saying it
might help Iran obtain technology needed to develop nuclear weapons ...
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* Iran says President Khatami plans France visit
TEHRAN, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami will visit
France after March, the first visit to Western Europe by an Iranian president
in 20 years, an official said in remarks published on Wednesday. Foreign
Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Khatami would visit France in
the next Iranian year which starts on March 21, newspapers reported ...
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* Iran delayed missile test due to problem -Israeli
JERUSALEM, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran has delayed a second test launch
of its Shehab-3 surface-to-surface missile because of operational problems,
an Israeli defence official said on Wednesday. But the official, who refused
to be identified or directly quoted, said the Iranian missile programme
was still on schedule and the Shehab-3 would probably be operational by
next year ... FULL
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Tuesday
January 19, 1999
* TV chief banned from cabinet meetings
January 19, 1999, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The head of Iran's state television
has been banned from attending Cabinet sessions for airing a broadcast
that blamed supporters of the country's moderate president for a string
of recent slayings, newspapers reported Tuesday. Ataollah Mohajerani, minister
of culture and the government's spokesman, demanded a public apology from
Ali Larijani, who heads the country's radio and TV network ... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami seen winning row with state TV
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Iran's state-run television came under fire
on Tuesday over an interview with a conservative cleric who had accused
backers of President Mohammad Khatami of being behind a series of murders
of moderate intellectuals. A top state committee condemned the television
station for the interview and demanded that those responsible for the programme
be punished. Iranian analysts saw the decision as a victory for the moderate
president over the conservative-run state media and another step forward
for his liberal political and cultural reforms ... FULL
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* Iran oil capacity exceeds estimates-Dresdner Bank
LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Iran produced more oil in recent years than
outside experts believed and even more than its own officials disclosed,
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (DKBR) said. The bank said in a World Oil Report
that Iran could pump sustainably at 3.9 million barrels per day (bpd).
``Broadly speaking, our own data agrees with the Iranian view that secondary
market sources have substantially under-estimated Iran's sustainable production
capacity in 1998,'' said the report by Mehdi Varzi, a director of research
at the bank ... FULL
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* U.S. says considering sale of farms goods to Iran
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The United States is considering the
sale of U.S. farm goods to Iran but no decision has been made, the State
Department said on Tuesday. ``An application for a license to broker a
sale of U.S. agricultural products to Iran has been filed with the Treasury
Office of Foreign Assets Control and is under consideration,'' spokesman
James Rubin said. ``I don't think any decision has been made on this,''
he said ... FULL
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* Iran Pardons 1,400 Prisoners
January 19, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, pardoned 1,428 prisoners Tuesday to mark the Muslim feast of
Eid al-Fitr, which comes at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Those
pardoned were serving sentences following convictions before revolutionary,
public and military courts, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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* Mysterious explosion leaves 4 dead in karaj
Karaj, Jan. 19, IRNA - Explosions of two mysterious objects in the Karaj
suburb of Mohammadshahr on Tuesday left 4 dead and 3 wounded ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran slams Kosovo massacre, urges legal action
TEHRAN, January 19 (Reuters) - Iran expressed concern over the massacre
of 45 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and called for the prosecution of the
perpetrators, newspapers reported on Tuesday. ``Iran...is concerned about
the recent carnage of Moslems in Kosovo and demands an immediate halt to
the killings,'' Iran Daily quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza
Asefi as saying ... FULL
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Monday
January 18, 1999
* Khamenei urges factions to end dispute
TEHRAN, Iran, Jan. 18 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei Monday called on conservatives and moderates to end a bitter dispute
over the killings of dissidents. Khamenei's call for calm came amid public
concern over a new wave of killings in Tehran which did not appear to be
political in nature. There was wide concern among residents of the capital
after more gruesome murders in which a prominent elderly engineer and his
wife, and the wife of a prize-winning translator were killed at their homes
by unknown intruders last week ... FULL
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* New murders shake Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - Political killings and kidnappings, death threats
against intellectuals and dissidents, and violent killings of citizens
on an almost daily basis, have deepened a sense of insecurity in Iran ahead
of the 20th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Iran has been gripped
by a vicious cycle of death threats and murders against dissidents and
writers as well as professionals, as rival political factions are locked
in a power struggle ahead of the anniversary on February 11 ... FULL TEXT
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* Russian ex-KGB blames West for Iran technology
MOSCOW, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Russia's FSB national security service said
in a newspaper interview published on Monday that Iran possessed Western
equipment which could be used to build missiles. The United States placed
sanctions on three Russian scientific institutes last week and threatened
further action, accusing Russia of providing aid to Iran's missile and
nuclear weapons programmes. But FSB spokesman Alexander Zdanovich told
the Sevodnya daily newspaper that Washington had provided no evidence to
back up its accusations ... FULL
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